<p>Anybody have experience taking this class online during the summer? How is it? Is Stark in general a good teacher? </p>
<p>How about normal Stat 21?</p>
<p>From what i saw on courserank.com, 60% of the students get an A in N21. However, I have not taken this course yet but will be taking it over the summer.</p>
<p>I’m taking this class too. no clue how it is though</p>
<p>Courserank only has self-reported grades though for this class. It’s bound to be skewed towards higher grades.</p>
<p>I took Stat 21 last semester, not the online course. 60% is high yeah, but there are definitely a lot of A’s in that class, especially compared to the other Stat 21 professors.</p>
<p>What he told us was that he used to give extra credit for 100% on homeworks (which is somewhat difficult), but he stopped that policy in our semester. </p>
<p>If you any other questions about the class, feel free to ask me.</p>
<p>Hey Japanosis, did you take a statistics course in HS before you took Stat 21? How difficult are the hw compared to the exam. Thanks.</p>
<p>I took AP stats in high school with a terrible teacher, so I didn’t know much. However, I found Stark’s curriculum is very different from a high school stats class or even the other introductory stats classes at Berkeley.</p>
<p>The good thing is that he says he makes the exams easier than the homework, which I found to be true.</p>
<p>exactly how hard are these homework problems? Are they beyond unsolvable?</p>
<p>Definitely not unsolvable. I think I could’ve gotten 100% on every homework. I ended up getting 90+% on all of them. There are some multiple choice and T/F that make it easier. Working with a friend also helped me out a lot.</p>
<p>What made them so hard? Oh and how many hours per week did you spend on avg for the online lectures/hw/etc?</p>
<p>Is cs61a and N21 together too much?</p>
<p>In terms of the difficulty, on the homework, he’s able to set up much larger and complicated problems that he can’t do on the exam. He also expected more critical thinking and application of what you’ve learned, while the tests were based on simpler ideas. </p>
<p>I could go through lectures once and read the text once, and be able to answer of the homework. Just go back through the text if you encounter any problems in the homework. I probably spent 1-3 hours on each assignment. I would budget a little more time than that just to see. Definitely work ahead of time, because the submission rules are not forgiving. </p>
<p>N21 shouldn’t be too bad if you could budget a certain amount of time. It’s a consistent time-user (ie. no projects, don’t have to cram too hard for midterms). As for CS61A, depends on your programming experience, but it’ll also have more time-crunching moments with homeworks and projects.</p>