Took Stats 101A with Shi. 2021 Winter, remotely

Good: few homework, less content each lecture, take-home exam(24hours)

Bad: she is late more than 5 minutes EACH lecture, harsh grader, no reply email, no argument of Grade, the whole quarter content can be learned 5 weeks. I learn much more from TA. Quiz is tricky each week and easy to miss.

I did not take 100B when I take this class.
Once I asked her a question in the quiz, she answered me “You will learn in 100B”.
The content of this course is not difficult. But her teaching has increased the difficulty. Many principles and details are not explained well. For me, textbooks are more useful than lectures
I prefer to email her to ask questions. She responds to the questions in the email more effectively than the office hour.
Although she is not very good at teaching, her homework and exams are not difficult. I cannot say that this is good. I don't think I learned a lot.

Professor Shi is a nice professor. Her lectures are clear and structured, with detailed PPT and thorough explanations. Also, she is nice and considerate as she changed the syllabus to give us take-home 24 midterm and final. Her homework and tests are very fair as long as you pay attention to her classes and have enough practice. The small problem is that her pace in lectures is slightly slow, which can make you sleepy if you attend lectures in the afternoon. Overall, I recommend taking her classes.

Disclaimer: Online Class.
This is an easy class if you put down most of the "important sentences" from Professor Shi. Those are all crucial and helpful explanations to the core concepts that are otherwise not necessarily thoroughly explained in her lecture notes--even though they are already pretty detailed.
HW is easy. Exams(24 hours) and quizzes (timed) emphasize the details about equations and understanding of concepts.

The coursework includes two exams (30% of your grade each, Exam 1 is like a midterm and Exam 2 is like a Week 10 final), weekly quizzes (20%, lowest grade dropped, no quizzes on exam weeks), and 6-7 homework assignments (20%, best 5 assignments counted towards grade).

Initially, the exams were scheduled to take place during lecture, but Professor Shi was very accommodating and later changed them to be 48-hour exams. The homework assignments only contained a few questions each and were straightforward. The quizzes were also pretty easy and only tested the important concepts, so it's a good, low-stakes way to see which areas you need to brush up on. The exams were more challenging and time-consuming than the homework but still very doable and fair. Lectures were quite dry and sometimes not that clear but maybe that's just me having a short attention span.

Overall I really liked this class for being very straightforward and having a manageable workload and would recommend Professor Shi for 101A!