Y.P. "Ed" Mack - University of California Davis

Professor: Y.P. "Ed" Mack
Department: Mathematics
College: University of California Davis
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: STATS13
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
this guy is oooolllld...Mr. Miyagi lookin' dude... But, in the summer, he does weekly quizzes, and one FINAL cumulitive exam..and somehow u get a B-...thats all i remember...Random lecs, TA was helpful, grades HW
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: STA13
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
i have no idea what is going on in this class. he seems like a nice guy and i almost feel bad about saying it, but he's a terrible professor. attendance dropped to ~30 people per lecture after the first week. he even described the class to be "more laissez faire" than others. the book is pretty terrible too, but just stick to it and you'll get a B.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: STA013
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Frustrating class...professor is very difficult to understand...it reaches the point where you don't even want to/need to go to class anymore.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: STAT013
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
His lecture is horrible! I only attend his lecture for the first 2 weeks because it's better to study the book urself than attending his lecture, I promise, you will not understand him at all!! Midterms are okay, hws are easy!!
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: STA13
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
i basically depended my textbook to pass this class. rarely went to lectures. kinda hard to follow the material he presented in class. discussions are not mandatory either. the book is all you really need.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: STAT013
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He's a really nice person, but his lectures did not focus much on the material. Discussions were pretty useless for me as well. Do your homework, go to office hours, and study.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: STAT13
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is an all around very NICE guy, he cares about his students and is genuinely hurt when people leave the class in the middle of lecture. However...his accent and how fast he talks makes him so hard to understand. His lectures do not help AT ALL. read the book, go to section. huge curve on the tests. i got a B- but ave. about 60 on tests
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: STA13
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
nice guy, but just a bad professor(dont bother going to class). I went to the first 3 or 4 lectures and maybe 2 discussions and passed the class. He has a heavy accent and the ta is even worse. The midterms and final were hard and he grades the hw really hard, but in the end theres a huge curve.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: STA13
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Lectures are completely useless, and so are the discussions. Crappy book, crappy TA, but Dr. Mack is helpful in office hours. He is very nice and is willing to help, but lectures are just horrendous. No matter how bad you do, there is always hope, since the curve at the end is humongous. The class is definitely harder than what intro stat should be
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: STA13
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Has heavy accent......midterms were easy.....but final was so hard.....he curved grade this time.....i chose to study myself rather than went to his class...coz prof. would pose notes on the internet.....TA didn't know how to taught either.....take this class if you want an easy A or B but you will learn nothing from it.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: STA13
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I'm a math major and 3rd year so I thought that this class would be easy, but he's such a bad teacher (and annoying) that I stopped going to class cuz it was more confusing, and taught myself (horrible book). You have to decipher his short hand, his examples aren't helpful, and his TESTS are the worst thing ever! (random and hard: no one get 100%!)
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: STATS13
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very, very bad. He talks and talks and talks and it seems like he's singing a lullaby to you rather than teaching. Midterms have nothing to do with the lectures nor with the book. I'm taking him this Fall quarter and I'm pretty sure that I'm failing the class. I dont recommend him.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: STA13
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Honestly, you would do just fine in the class if you had prior background to stats like I did. You will mostly need to read your book, his lectures are boring - just print it off line and look it over. His midterms are reasonable, you get notes & book on the 2nd midterm & final. Overall, it is a decent class. You just have to study the book.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: STATS13
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
this is the hardest class i have taken at davis. I am an A and B student, and I am almost failing this class. Lectures are pointless, my TA doesn't speak english, your grade is determined by homework, 2 tests, and a final. the midterms average 10-15 multiple choice (which are much more difficult than the hw questions) avoid him at all costs.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: STATB03
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He basically doesn't know how to lecture. He brings up concepts (and symbols) that he has never gone over before, as if you know them already, thus the whole lecture ends up being useless. He also assigns homework that doesn't coincide with lecture at all... I learned through the homework, doing homework in his class is key.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: STATS120
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Most boring class ever. Slept in class all the time. He sucked at teaching. Nice person. Very laid back. Gives like... an open book midterm and a take home final. Got an A just doing things at the last minute. Didn't learn anything about stats at all
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: STA130B
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Horrible teacher, nice person. Willing to help you, but doesn't really know how to lecture. Examples are unclear and he goes off on tangents a lot. The TA taught me more than he did! The book doesn't help much either. Plan to spend extra time trying to teach yourself the material.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: STA103
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
He lectures about useless material. His tests do not cover what he lectured on or what the homework covered. On the first test there was even a problem that he didn't cover in lecture until after the test.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: STA13
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
super easy A! go buy the IE edition online and study ur own! this is how i did and i got A- w/o goin to any class except the quizz/final dates!
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: STAT103
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Horrible teacher. THe book he chose sucks and his lectures are boring and difficult to follow. Homework and tests are extremely hard. DO NOT take him, he's probably the worst teacher I've had at Davis so far.
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