Horrible prof! Chose some rubbish book then wrote some awful notes. Not gonna take again

Most confusing prof ever, disorganized. There were alot websites used for no reason. we had 2 tests and each one was on a different site, the grades were in another one. assignments were on different sites each. She hasno knowledge on what she teaches and won't answer any Qs unless its on the textbook and reads off it. tests were all over the place

One of the worst professors I've had yet - and I've had quite a few.

The worst person and prof. Gave us a test with 4 LONG questions and gave us 50 minuets. everybody complained but nothing changed and she is so petty that she said "I did the test in 40 minutes" like she isn't the prof and she has no knowledge on what she is talking about. disorganized and answered EVERY question with "idk what your question is" :

Yanhua Amanda Tian is like the worst instructor I've had at York. She like barely gets the material and sometimes randomly gets rude and arrogant. Boring lectures two, makes the material feel dull.

Terrible. The last prof you should think about. She is rude and won't answer ANY questions and when she does she gives you a HUGE sigh before doing so. Has no idea what she is talking about and no knowledge on any of the material. she pre recorded her lectures and in the you can hear her turning pages frantically when she doesn't know the topic.

Seriously one of the most obnoxious people I've ever met - terrible personality and attitude. Completely useless as a professor, I wouldn't be surprised if she lied about her degree just to get the job. Avoid her classes and thank me later.

Disorganized and doesn't know anything. She just copies off of pages. Doubt there's any benefit in actually listening to her teaching and by "teaching" I mean just reading and copying the textbook.

She terrible at conveying material

Extremely difficult to understand. Useless as an instructor, I got by by using notes from past classes. Taking a class with her was the biggest mistake I made at York. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!

They are not available for questions, just awful recordings. Don't be surprised if you find yourself seeking external resources. They are impatient and often confused when ya'll finally are able to ask them questions. Bad teacher. Thumbs down.

She's unbelievably difficult to understand. Even more harder if you are like me who is not a native English speaker. I would avoid this prof, if some reason you have too take something with her than just read the books. Otherwise do yourself a favor and avoid!

I wasn't expecting university profs to be like this. It looks like she has no flying clue what she's talking about. Had a very hard time understanding her. If you ask her anything and somehow understand her, remember that her answers usually don't even address the question. I heard same stuff from classmates. I'll be avoiding any of her classes.

Had few interactions, and was rude and not willing to hear students out. Expected a better learning experience since York is charing us so much tuition, overall disappointed.

The mode of lecture used is very inefficient. Pre-recorded videos are played over zoom and not posted on online platforms for students to later review. The recorded lectures itself are confusing as most of the time shes rushing through them and its hard to comprehend whats going on. Self-study is carrying me in this class right now.

Won't answer questions, horrible teaching, just plays prerecorded videos on zoom and barely explains concepts.

She seems like she has no clue of what's going on in the material. She can't seem to answer ANY questions. How did she even become a professor? She's literally just reading off of pages! York, what the heck is going on?

Super unreasonable. Inadequate teaching skills. No textbook for this class, so you're stuck using her prerecorded lectures and sample code scripts. The resources she provides will not prepare you for her tests! Poor English comprehension will leave you clueless trying to understand her test questions. She does not understand anything you say to her

Horrible instructor. Not very accessible outside of lecture hours. If you end up in her class, remember that the only true friend you have there is the textbook. She's extremely difficult to understand. Also, it often looks as though she is trying to make the lecture hard to understand. Either that or she doesn't know how to teach. Unreasonable.

AVOID THIS PROF AT ALL COSTS. By far the worst professor I've ever had. During COVID she would play pre-recorded videos as her lectures. Her first midterm was easy but the content was very easy. Her second midterm didn't match what she taught us and was the hardest midterm. She also decided to add R (coding-like software), thanks tian...

Yanhua Tian is by far one of the worst instructors I've ever had at York. Her course website is extremely unorganized and messy, her feedback is lackluster (if she even responds to you questions/ emails). Her instinctual response to any questions criticism is to deflect the topic to something else. Her lectures are all prerecorded and dull. Awful.

Very unorganized, does not care about students, plays pre-recorded lectures during her "live" lectures with very bad audio. Has a really bad attitude and barely answers questions and does not give feedback. Does not know how to do reviews, her voice is irritating mainly because she sounds as if she does not want to even be here/teach.

Horrible Horrible prof, worst prof ive ever had. The course site is not organized at all and isnt updated. Her way of recording the lectures is just stupid, plays her own recording and makes us watch that LIVE and posts the whole live lecture where she didnt talk at all instead of posting the pre recorded lectures. Ifuhave her just switch / drop.

What can I say? She's unreasonable, obnoxious, horrible, difficult to understand, clueless, the list goes on and on. The most valuable lesson I learned was that your choice of professors greatly effects your learning.

Do you want a professor who like to take your higher education funds such that you end up being lied, cheated, discriminated, and also dishonoring the educational system, then this is your go to professor right here. A person who claims to have creditenals as a statistic professor has 0 tolerance in helping students to get through their goals.

Hard to understand and unreasonable.

Disorganized, difficult to understand, doesn't like students asking questions

Her tests and assignments are okay but I really didn't like her teaching style or her not too helpful answers to my questions. She seems okay as a person but I feel as if she doesn't put too much effort into helping students outside of lecture hours. I'm doing well so far but I'm really not looking forward to the upcoming exam.

This Professor does not prepare you at all for the tests.

NO PRACTICE

Bad preparation for evaluations, doesn't care about students, better to read the book and guess what is being evaluated.

Very disorganized. The class is hard to keep track of. Despite the expectations seeming fair, I'm still going to take it with someone else

Difficult to understand and bad exam prep

Really couldn't enjoy one of my favourite subjects, you have to take notes during lectures to review later since the notes she releases are criminally incomplete. Hope she prepares and RELEASES the material for the next students.

Worst instructor I've had so far. Lectures were hard to understand and her responses were always confusing.

Stats with Prof. Tian was one of the worst experiences I've ever had at York. Her instruction is barely comprehensible, she fails to adequately explain concepts, and she does not assign ANY practice problems. To make matters worse, she doesn't even post her lecture notes online for students to review! I learned nothing from this class.

She wasn't a great professor and came across as disorganized, impatient and arrogant. She wasn't interested in being too helpful outside of class. I will never take her again. Stay away!

Avoid having her as much as possible, this was the worst experience ever. Her lectures are truly known as the most boring ones. She is the type of instructor who makes you hate math to a point where you start thinking of giving up upon your studies.

Lectures were almost useless, asking questions wasn't a pleasant experience. Bad instructor.

It was really hard to engage with the Professor and the level of difficulty of the course was harder than it should be. There was not a lot of communication with her when it comes to her lectures. Definitely would not take again a class with her

If you take a course with her, be ready to like self-teach the content using the textbook and internet. She is not a nice person outside of class & she does a very poor job at explaining things & her tests are very hard. Our class average for our first test was like a C+. I would avoid like taking any course with her.

rude and difficult to reach out to

Difficult professor

Very bad email etiquette.

Not the best at explaining things.Not the nicest person either.

This prof is not great at all. Her accent makes it difficult to understand her which wouldn't have been a huge problem if she could teach, but she can't. Doesn't record lectures and only posts incomplete notes. Not accessible outside class and her exam was difficult because she included stuff she didn't teach. Steer clear from her if you can.

I had Yanhua Tian for 2131, her midterms and exams were extremely difficult compared to the textbook practice questions that were recommended to do. Everything I learned in this class was because I taught myself, she is very confusing.The only good thing about this class is that you can find the textbook online for free.

I did not like this professor. She was very difficult to deal with and was very bad at explaining stuff. Don't take her! If you took her, I send you prayer and positive vibe!

Horrible

Didn't post full notes online, left blanks to make students come to class. Her explanations were not worth the time.

Uploaded unfilled in notes with lots of grammar errors and the lectures were not helpful at all.

Take her at your own risk. Take her if you really want to self-study the whole course. Take her if you want to waste your money. Take her if you don't wanna understand anything from the lectures. Take her if you wanna have a prof who doesn't care at all about her students. Take her if you wanna be told to fk off from her office hrs.

Try your very very best to avoid her, she makes stats seem so much difficult but in reality it's not! You're going to have a miserable time if you decide to enroll in her classes, cuz simply she doesn't care about students at all.

Just horrible. She never replies to emails when it's important or when its course regarding. She gives so much work without even thinking. For example, when we came back from the strike she expected us to finish 3 assignments, 1 midterm, and a final (worth 50%) within 3 weeks. While only completing 30% of the course.

Does not respond to emails, I had to inquire about an extension repeatedly, and she only replied once I asked to talk to someone who cared more. Does not give accurate preparation for tests, last test had 4 questions and most people stayed the whole hour. The strike seemed to make her give up entirely. avoid at all cost

Anything > this prof. Not available outside of class, not flexible. Reads off slides. Only there for research. Impossible to read her note during class (which she wont post). You go to class, you cant understand what she's saying, you cant read her handwriting, and on top of this she 100% doesn't care at all about you or your learning.

Very much test heavy, no leniency with assignment deadlines. Will not give any bonus under any circumstances. Had to teach myself most of the course content.

Had to rely on textbook. Posted notes and lectures were not good enough. Professor was not accessible outside of class.

Very disorganized. Had to rely on textbook readings.

Content isn't too hard, if you rely on textbook. However, it is a nightmare dealing with anything outside of class. If you need to email for whatever reason, she's quite unresponsive and doesn't seem to answer questions directly. Unless you never need to email a professor or contact them outside lecture, stay clear.