Raja Balakrishnan - Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

Professor: Raja Balakrishnan

Department: Mathematics

College: Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: MATH242
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

He is nice and helpful .

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: MATH242
• 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:

Not recommended & not helpful. Has his favorites, gives no partial points on anything, and homework is pointless when it's only worth so little of your grade. I've gotten an A in every math class I've taken and am a chem major so I generally think I'm pretty smart, but wow this guy demoralizes you.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: MATH242
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Raja's amazing. I already knew what I was doing when I took the class but he still made it interesting. Gives extra credit for making your work neat and don't have many web assignments. If you do the tests right you don't even have to answer all of the questions to get over 100%. Just make sure you remember your basic algebra :D

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: MATH243
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Raja is a great guy, he's an extremely good teacher. He writes out everything on the board as if you've never done it before and that helps tremendously. I highly recommend taking a class from him.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CALC242
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

hi,i am taking calc1 with him now.He is really wonderful person.if you want to learn ,you will learn a lot from him.he gives a review before any test , if you study the review very well ,u will do very in the test.To make it short,i strongly recommend you guys to take the a class with him.he also gives web assign as 10% extra credit .

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: MATH011
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

He is a very good teacher he is always willing to help out the students he made math fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: STAT271
• 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:

Raja did teach the begining of the year. But throughout the semester it was like he stopped caring about what we learned. I agree with every post on this board and I was lucky enough to pass with a B.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: STATS360
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

He treats his students like they are worthless and ignorant. He never tells you what you did wrong on the tests and tests are 75% of your grade. If you make one mistake in your work yoiu get points taken off, even if you get the right answer. I don't know how he is a Professor at Wichita State!

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: STAT370
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

This started out as a good class & went downhill from there. The first half is fairly easy. He gives you homework but does halfas examples. Tests are bad cause they're comprehensive from beginning. He changed his teaching style halfway through. Confusing to understand @ times. Goes off on tangents when teaching. Worthless going to class!

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: MATH321
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

This is one guy who thinks he knows everything. He doesn't even make himself clear on what he teaches. My experience wth Discrete structures with Raja has been horrible. So many students dropped out of the class, and we had only 1 student with an A, and the rest of them barely made it. Please take another lecturer.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: MATH321
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

DO NOT take a class from this professor. His English is very broken and hard to understand. The only grades for this class were his tests. He would tell you what to study, then put the opposite on the test. If you do not write the answer exactly his way, then he would mark it wrong. Would only do easy problems as examples.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: STAT370
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

very helpful with everything.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: STATS370
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Learning at the speed of light is not easy at all. The textbook used for this class didn't help at all.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: STAT370
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

I liked Raja, he is excited to teach, sometimes he goes to fast. Raja has a hard time remembering what he tells you in class and following through when he gets back to his office, like homework assignments & tests. I liked it, but I like Math.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: STAT370
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Good teacher.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: MATH144
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

This class was so hard. He gives a test over each section the next class period so be ready to take 3 or 4 quizes per week. Attendence is mandatory. The questions on the test are nothing like what is in the book. So you cannot review. He is helpful though! The questions are 10 to 15 points a piece. If you miss two then forget about it! Good luck!

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: MATH242
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

evil man

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: MATH144
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Easy grading, but hard to understand and frustrating to learn from. Gets side tracked too easily with tiny class distractions like yawning!

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: MATH144
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

He did not attend class an average of one day a week. Gets very frustrated when you don't understand what he is teaching. Hard to understand <broken english>, didn't feel like grading a test or quiz so gave the whole class 100%. We are almost done with the semester and are still in chapter 4!!!!!

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: MATH144
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Awesome teacher, very comical at times but also serious, I would strongly recommend him