Shamsa Anwar - Pennsylvania State University - Altoona

Professor: Shamsa Anwar

Department: TBD

College: Pennsylvania State University - Altoona

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: MATH021
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Anwar is a very nice lady, but is unsuited to teach this course. Classtime was devoted entirely to doing practice problems, rather than going over the steps to solving the problems. While doing these practice problems, she would make 3-5 mistakes per class.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: MATH21
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Take this class with her and your signing yourself up for a semester living in the LRC. Cant keep up because she goes so fast and her accent is so thick. Very nice person but just not suitable for a math professor. Wouldnt wish this class on anyone. Beware.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: MATH021
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

will not give you any explanation on why certain steps are taken to find a problem. Will only work through the problem expecting you to retain everything she puts on the board. one of the worst professors I've ever had.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: MATH021
• Grade Received: D+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Shamsa is a nice woman, I feel bad that most of her students do not like her, however, her lectures move at a very fast pace. She does not explain how to do problems, makes many mistakes without correction until pointed out by a student, and is hard to understand. I spend countless hours at tutoring for this class. I have As in every other class.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: MATH21
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Anwar is a decent person, but not professor. Constantly is making mistakes in her work, is very face paced and does not explain steps. Accent sometimes makes it hard to understand. Never in her office during her "office hours". Often calls out students in front of the whole class as well while exposing there test grade. Do not take her.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: MATH021
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Shamsa is a very nice lady but not the best professor. Hard to understand and tends to move at an extremely fast pace. Does problems on the board herself and barely explains what she did to get the answer. Lots of homework and tests are hard unless you go to the LRC.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: MATH021
• Grade Received: D-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

She started out the semester okay but as it went on, the class began to get harder. Makes a lot of mistakes when teaching and doesn't teach very well. I always felt like I left class more confused than when I came in. The only time I ever understood what was going on was when we had a substitute.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: MATH021
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

There were 40 people in my math class. Currently there are 13. Hard to find during "office hours" and not much help. Hard to understand and basically does the problems herself very fast and moves on.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: MATH021
• Grade Received: D+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

She consistently makes mistakes in her work and comes up with ridiculous excuses for why she made them. Is no help in preparation, hard to understand, low office hours. The fact that she expects us to do 6 hours (with mathway) of online ALEKS work that doesn't relate to the current topic along with 60 problems from some website is insane. AWFUL

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: MATH021
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Very nice lady and I'm sure she does want her students to succeed however she offers very minimal assistance and gets frustrated when students don't grasp her teachings even though she does minorly speak broken English. Unfortunately her class put a damper on my Freshman GPA and was my separation from making dean's list, I would not recommend.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: MATH026
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Mrs. Anwar is the sweetest lady I've ever met! She truly loves her students and that can be seen through her teaching. She uses a lot of good analogies that help you understand Trig better. The class was a lot of memorization, but staying organized and on top of things will help you do well.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: MATH21
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

I don't know why you are all being hard on Mrs Anwar! You are all just plain lazy and can't accept the fact that you can't own up and do work when assigned. I had Shamsa two years ago and let me just say MOST OF HER QUESTIONS FOR THE EXAM CAME STRAIGHT OUT IF THE BOOK, I mean it can't get any easier than that! I highly recommend Anwar she rocked!

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: MATH021
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Professor Anwar has the daunting task of teaching math and does it the best to her ability. I found the tests hard, but if you do that homework then you can definitely do well. She keeps the atmosphere light which isn't easy to do with a dry subject like math.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: MATH21
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

First off, "Don't judge a book by its cover". Things are always not going to be easy in the beginning, especially when it comes to math. But I guarantee you, despite all the negative comments below me, she DOES want to see you succeed&will try to help you succeed if she sees you are hardworking&stick through. Math21 consists with time&commitment.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: MATH21
• 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:

I was taking MATH 21 for one of my math credits to graduate. I tried my hardest. I went to tutoring and even did all the problems in the book to help me study for the tests. I had to late drop the class because it would ruin my gpa. She constantly makes mistakes explaining problems and work on the blackboard. Math isn't my strong suit though.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: 001
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Professor Anwar is not at the top of the list for my favorite professors. Being an individual achieving a respectable GPA, I feel I have the right to say this professor earns an extremely poor rating. She does not represent the Pennsylvania State University well at all. For what his university stands for in education, she does not provide any.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: 363376
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Offers no help, hard to understand, no office hours, worst professor..... DO NOT TAKE

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: MATH21
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

She is by far the worst math teacher I've had in my life. First, teaching is not just doing the problem yourself on the board. It is teaching steps and methods. That isn't "spoon-feeding", thats how to teach. Secondly, she goes through problems so fast that she gets them wrong herself. Lastly, anything I ever learned came from ALEKS or Tutoring

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: MATH21
• 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:

hard to understand and goes really fast through problems

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: MATH021
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Oh, please. The people who have problems with Prof. Anwar are typically those who demand to be spoonfed by their professors. Sure, her accent can be intimidating, but she's far from hard to understand, and I never had any troubles with her class, despite not having enough money for the textbook (so my grade tanked due to homework not being done).