Ruben Zamar - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Professor: Ruben Zamar

Department: Statistics

College: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: STAT460
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Ruben has a strong passion for statistics and a clear desire to teach you everything he knows. His teaching style is to go over materials on the projector and occasionally use the whiteboard if something is unclear. However, he often sidetracks into a verbal explanation which may be hard to follow without some written aid picture. Extremely nice.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: STAT302
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Decent prof with helpful lecture notes. Sure, he just scrolls through them and reads them off in class, but he's a nice guy and tries to make things easier (with varied results). Go for a better prof if there is one, but with Professor Zamar you can't really go wrong.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: STAT406
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I think he is nice guy and I like his teaching style.He is really nice and patient cares about students.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: STAT241
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Could not stand his accent, so ended up either sleeping/skipping his class. The TA was so much better at explaining concepts. Did very poorly because I had zero desire to learn the material. His 'slides' consist of a webpage that he just scrolls through in class, unreadable in big classroom.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: STAT251
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Terrible lecturer. Boring as all hell and often not understandable. Lazy professor, assignments are exactly the same as previous classes, and tests are barely different from previous years. Easy A+, but don't expect to learn anything.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: 241
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

tough. never felt so bad before. however, TA's really helpful.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: STAT251
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Very nice prof, but gives *incredibly* boring lectures. Doing problems is a must to pass the course.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: STAT241251
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Prof sucks, but worth taking it, sicne the course is rediculously easy. He can't speak properly and makes the class boring.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: STAT241
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

good class, pretty easy, not necessary to go all the time if you're good at learning on you're own, the prof is good at explaining theory, put there isn't much of that on the exam, make sure you know the "expected" questions REALLY well from the old finals, etc., and put examples on ur sheet :)

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: EECE251
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

EASY CLASS. You just need to know and understand the past midterms and finals...I didnt even do any of the problem sets. I wish all engineering classes were like this.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: STAT241
• 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:

He can't speak english and he gets *himself* confused. It takes him 15 minutes to explain what 1 minute of reading makes clear... and his explanation is not clear. BOO!

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: STAT305
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Class had no structure. Trying too hard to work new technology which wasted a lot of time in lectures. Very helpful in office hours. Very nice. Solving problems to pass this course is a must.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: STAT251
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

he is so niceee.... never went to class and got 100%

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: STAT241
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

His accent is kind of thick. But the material is easy as long as you put in the little effor required (consistently) to understand it.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: STAT251
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

I only went to his class twice and got 100%. The class itself was easy.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: STAT251
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Nice enough guy. Teaches really slowly, though. The exam was very similar to the past final exams, so study and understand those and you'll do fine. Assignments have little to do with the exam, so they're almost useless.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: STAT251
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

One of the hardest final exams I have ever had!!!

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: STAT241
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

All I can say is that I have gone to his class 4 times this term and I have over an 80% average... from reading his notes. Read his notes in detail and do examples and you will do well. He's a good hearted person.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: STAT241
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Not very clear in explanations. Very slow paced and confusing solutions to his problems. I hated that class.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: STAT305
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Very helpful in office hours etc, and considerate, but also very disorganized. Exam, project dates changed many times. Worst thing was no solved problems given in class, nor in solutions. TA's for this section were useless!! Few learning resources :-(