Akram M Almohalwas
Department of Statistics
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Easiness 3.0 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 2.5 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 3.4 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 2.8 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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Quarter: Fall 2022
Grade: A-
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Dec. 15, 2022

Almohalwas is, overall, a kind and understanding professor. He clearly cares about his students and was interested in making sure we understood the material; in class, he answered every question asked and I've heard that his office hours were good too (i never went lol). In terms of tests, they weren't easy, but they were fair. Everything covered was basically taken right out of the book. The formula sheet is pretty disorganized, so definitely do a lot of practice problems and get familiar with the formulas you need to know. For discussions and labs: GO TO DISCUSSION SECTION. My TA basically gave us the answers and explained the concepts. When the TAs went on strike halfway through the quarter I was pretty much lost without their help on these assignments.
My biggest problem with this class and the professor was the lectures. They were disorganized and pretty boring, with unhelpful slides and a lot of rambling on Almohalwas's part. Honestly, I think that attending the lectures was a waste of my time and would have been better spent learning the concepts on my own time.
He also drops the lowest lab, lowest discussion assignment, and gives an extra credit lab, so there's a bit of wiggle room! Overall a fine class, j make sure to keep up with the material and do a lot of problems.

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Quarter: Fall 2022
Grade: B
Dec. 13, 2022

This professor is a very kind and reasonable person and was very helpful when it was needed. However, his slides are VERY hard to follow along with and he ends up rambling the entire lecture so I stopped going to lectures after midterms and did not think I was missing anything. The labs for this class are very tedious and not enough background information was given when we began to use R studio, it was as if they expected me to know how to already do it when it was my first time using it. The labs are VERY long and repetitive and discussion sections did not coincide with lectures at all. The midterm calculation questions were quite challenging. I just wish the professor was more organized because it was very hard to understand when he rambles about random things every few minutes.

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Quarter: Spring 2022
Grade: A
June 22, 2022

The class wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. All I can really say is that discussion sections and the textbook are important. You get lab and discussion worksheet answers during the discussion sections so make sure you go. The midterms were pretty straightforward and similar to the homework problems he provides.

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Quarter: Spring 2022
Grade: A+
June 19, 2022

This class was not as nearly bad as I thought it was going to be. When enrolling and reading the reviews, I was prepared for the worst. However, the tests were exceptionally fair, if you do the HW problems and practice problems that he gives you, you should be fine on the MCQs and the free response questions. He also provided us with free response examples during the lectures before the midterms which were almost identical to the ones on the midterms. I would say that lecture is not very useful since the professor sort of skims through each slide. If you want to make use of the professor or the TAs, I would suggest going to office hours. The textbook for the class is very important and provides clarity in regions that are ignored or briefly discussed in class. I would highly recommend reading it and doing the practice problems as that will help you get a firm understanding of the material and are similar or exactly the type of questions on the exams. There was no mandatory HW for this class but as I mentioned there are suggested HW problems which you should do. The labs themselves are easy, I'm pretty sure whoever grades them does not really look at them since I and most people I know get 100s on them. The discussion sections for this class are not mandatory but I would urge you to go (honestly these are more important than the lectures IMO) since the TAs will practically give you the codes for the labs and the answers for the in class worksheets, both of which are worth a total of 20% of your grade. There are quizzes for this class, but they were online quizzes and there was no time limit so you can take your time to really get the answers. And if you did not get them right the first time, you get two tries and the answers were given after your first attempt. However, the your scores for the two will average. All in all, this was a very easy course and I often forgot I was taking it. Do not stress too much about it and just do the work. The professor for this class does not really make or break your experience, but if I were to rate his teaching, it would just be average or slightly below average.

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Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: B-
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Jan. 1, 2022

The class overall is not bad (coming from someone who despises stats). I did not put much focus on this class as I should have. The coding for this class is annoying because it does not relate much to the concepts that are being taught. Professor Almohalwas does a good job when teaching the class. I would recommend but make sure you do all your assignments.

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Quarter: Summer 2019
Grade: A+
Sept. 10, 2019

I took this professor during summer so this class was 6 weeks. At first, I was stressed because I felt as though I wasn't learning the material in an organized fashion when I went to lecture. In fact, I didn't really learn that much during lecture. Every week we have a lab due which appears to be a lot of work until I discovered that they were essentially all graded for completion. Everyone I knew got 100% and that was a large part of the grade. The rest of the grade besides the test is pretty much a guaranteed 100% in the gradebook. There are online quizzes but you can find those answers online as well. The tests are pretty easy. He uses identical questions from the textbook and the problems he gives you in the discussion. He is also very helpful in office hours and works with you if you have any grade issues. The tests are easier than I anticipated and I was seriously freaking out about them since I felt like I didn't learn in lecture. In fact, it's pretty common sense and go along with discussion. Even if you don't know how to do a problem, they grade super easily. I thought I missed an entire written problem on the final (out of four written problem) but I still scored higher than 100%. The only issue is that the class lectures are pretty useless, but the material and tests are easy enough that it doesn't matter. Also, if you've taken AP stats that you're pretty set.

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Quarter: Winter 2015
Grade: B+
March 27, 2016

Decent class, the professor himself was very nice. My main problems were taking it simultaneously with some difficult classes, and forgetting about it until the midterm, in which I was wrecked, and spent the rest of the quarter trying to recover. In general, a meh class with a nice teacher. Textbook was definitely one of the jankiest ones I've ever seen, I practically never used it, just found resources elsewhere which made a lot more sense. Make sure to do the labs completely (some of them they check thoroughly, some not so much) and to go really slow on the quizzes (they are practically free points if you are careful with them).

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Quarter: Winter 2015
Grade: A+
March 27, 2016

Great professor. Medium workload. Not a hard A+ as you can get almost full credit for all the assignments. Selling textbook of this class. Please contact *************.

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June 22, 2015

The class is fine- average workload and grading. Your grade depends on attendance, weekly online quizzes, weekly labs, occasional article assignments, two midterms, and the final. He is pretty frustrating as a professor, though, because he'll say things that conflict with the powerpoints or just contradictory things in general. He goes in an order that's confusing and just jumps around. He'd go over certain concepts too briefly which would leave a lot of people confused. The class is definitely doable but I don't think he taught well at all.

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May 23, 2015

I honestly don't understand how this professor is getting such high reviews. After four years of college, this is easily the worst class I have ever taken. I will say that he is easy, and if you put in effort you should easily be able to get an A, but everything about this class is frustrating and a huge waste of time. Despite doing well in the class I don't feel like I know anything more than I did before I took it.

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Quarter: Fall 2022
Grade: A-
Dec. 15, 2022

Almohalwas is, overall, a kind and understanding professor. He clearly cares about his students and was interested in making sure we understood the material; in class, he answered every question asked and I've heard that his office hours were good too (i never went lol). In terms of tests, they weren't easy, but they were fair. Everything covered was basically taken right out of the book. The formula sheet is pretty disorganized, so definitely do a lot of practice problems and get familiar with the formulas you need to know. For discussions and labs: GO TO DISCUSSION SECTION. My TA basically gave us the answers and explained the concepts. When the TAs went on strike halfway through the quarter I was pretty much lost without their help on these assignments.
My biggest problem with this class and the professor was the lectures. They were disorganized and pretty boring, with unhelpful slides and a lot of rambling on Almohalwas's part. Honestly, I think that attending the lectures was a waste of my time and would have been better spent learning the concepts on my own time.
He also drops the lowest lab, lowest discussion assignment, and gives an extra credit lab, so there's a bit of wiggle room! Overall a fine class, j make sure to keep up with the material and do a lot of problems.

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Quarter: Fall 2022
Grade: B
Dec. 13, 2022

This professor is a very kind and reasonable person and was very helpful when it was needed. However, his slides are VERY hard to follow along with and he ends up rambling the entire lecture so I stopped going to lectures after midterms and did not think I was missing anything. The labs for this class are very tedious and not enough background information was given when we began to use R studio, it was as if they expected me to know how to already do it when it was my first time using it. The labs are VERY long and repetitive and discussion sections did not coincide with lectures at all. The midterm calculation questions were quite challenging. I just wish the professor was more organized because it was very hard to understand when he rambles about random things every few minutes.

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Quarter: Spring 2022
Grade: A
June 22, 2022

The class wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. All I can really say is that discussion sections and the textbook are important. You get lab and discussion worksheet answers during the discussion sections so make sure you go. The midterms were pretty straightforward and similar to the homework problems he provides.

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Quarter: Spring 2022
Grade: A+
June 19, 2022

This class was not as nearly bad as I thought it was going to be. When enrolling and reading the reviews, I was prepared for the worst. However, the tests were exceptionally fair, if you do the HW problems and practice problems that he gives you, you should be fine on the MCQs and the free response questions. He also provided us with free response examples during the lectures before the midterms which were almost identical to the ones on the midterms. I would say that lecture is not very useful since the professor sort of skims through each slide. If you want to make use of the professor or the TAs, I would suggest going to office hours. The textbook for the class is very important and provides clarity in regions that are ignored or briefly discussed in class. I would highly recommend reading it and doing the practice problems as that will help you get a firm understanding of the material and are similar or exactly the type of questions on the exams. There was no mandatory HW for this class but as I mentioned there are suggested HW problems which you should do. The labs themselves are easy, I'm pretty sure whoever grades them does not really look at them since I and most people I know get 100s on them. The discussion sections for this class are not mandatory but I would urge you to go (honestly these are more important than the lectures IMO) since the TAs will practically give you the codes for the labs and the answers for the in class worksheets, both of which are worth a total of 20% of your grade. There are quizzes for this class, but they were online quizzes and there was no time limit so you can take your time to really get the answers. And if you did not get them right the first time, you get two tries and the answers were given after your first attempt. However, the your scores for the two will average. All in all, this was a very easy course and I often forgot I was taking it. Do not stress too much about it and just do the work. The professor for this class does not really make or break your experience, but if I were to rate his teaching, it would just be average or slightly below average.

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Quarter: Spring 2021
Grade: B-
Jan. 1, 2022

The class overall is not bad (coming from someone who despises stats). I did not put much focus on this class as I should have. The coding for this class is annoying because it does not relate much to the concepts that are being taught. Professor Almohalwas does a good job when teaching the class. I would recommend but make sure you do all your assignments.

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Quarter: Summer 2019
Grade: A+
Sept. 10, 2019

I took this professor during summer so this class was 6 weeks. At first, I was stressed because I felt as though I wasn't learning the material in an organized fashion when I went to lecture. In fact, I didn't really learn that much during lecture. Every week we have a lab due which appears to be a lot of work until I discovered that they were essentially all graded for completion. Everyone I knew got 100% and that was a large part of the grade. The rest of the grade besides the test is pretty much a guaranteed 100% in the gradebook. There are online quizzes but you can find those answers online as well. The tests are pretty easy. He uses identical questions from the textbook and the problems he gives you in the discussion. He is also very helpful in office hours and works with you if you have any grade issues. The tests are easier than I anticipated and I was seriously freaking out about them since I felt like I didn't learn in lecture. In fact, it's pretty common sense and go along with discussion. Even if you don't know how to do a problem, they grade super easily. I thought I missed an entire written problem on the final (out of four written problem) but I still scored higher than 100%. The only issue is that the class lectures are pretty useless, but the material and tests are easy enough that it doesn't matter. Also, if you've taken AP stats that you're pretty set.

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Quarter: Winter 2015
Grade: B+
March 27, 2016

Decent class, the professor himself was very nice. My main problems were taking it simultaneously with some difficult classes, and forgetting about it until the midterm, in which I was wrecked, and spent the rest of the quarter trying to recover. In general, a meh class with a nice teacher. Textbook was definitely one of the jankiest ones I've ever seen, I practically never used it, just found resources elsewhere which made a lot more sense. Make sure to do the labs completely (some of them they check thoroughly, some not so much) and to go really slow on the quizzes (they are practically free points if you are careful with them).

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Quarter: Winter 2015
Grade: A+
March 27, 2016

Great professor. Medium workload. Not a hard A+ as you can get almost full credit for all the assignments. Selling textbook of this class. Please contact *************.

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June 22, 2015

The class is fine- average workload and grading. Your grade depends on attendance, weekly online quizzes, weekly labs, occasional article assignments, two midterms, and the final. He is pretty frustrating as a professor, though, because he'll say things that conflict with the powerpoints or just contradictory things in general. He goes in an order that's confusing and just jumps around. He'd go over certain concepts too briefly which would leave a lot of people confused. The class is definitely doable but I don't think he taught well at all.

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May 23, 2015

I honestly don't understand how this professor is getting such high reviews. After four years of college, this is easily the worst class I have ever taken. I will say that he is easy, and if you put in effort you should easily be able to get an A, but everything about this class is frustrating and a huge waste of time. Despite doing well in the class I don't feel like I know anything more than I did before I took it.

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Overall Rating
Based on 38 Users
Easiness 3.0 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 2.5 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 3.4 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 2.8 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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