Professor Nandy is the best professor for this class. He is very fair on his exams and has kind grading policies, for example if you get at least a 95% on the final you will get an A regardless of your grade going into the final. He cares alot for his students and about whether they actually understand the material. Do yourself a favor and take this class with Nandy. He seems to be getting a lot of slack for being boring, but in my opinion it's pretty difficult to make topics like "mean" and "standard deviation" interesting. If you do the work then you can get an A in the class

Wow, this has got to be the worst class I have ever taken in my life. Nandy is boring and confusing. I had a 3.87 GPA prior to taking this course, and am a psychobiology major. I ended up getting a C+ in this class. Theres NOOO way I deserved a C. He is very random at grading and is extremely boring to listen to. I've taken way tougher classes- LS 3, Chem 153A, etc and have scored A's in most of my classes BUT I somehow ended up getting a C+. This ruined my GPA, I'm also kicking myself daily for why I even signed up for this class to begin with.

The best professor to take for this class. He genuinely cares about his students and tries his best to maximize the A's he hands out. You have to be an idiot to do poorly in his class. Just attend lectures and study the slides and do all the homework he assigns.

So this class was extremely boring. The class only lasts an hour and fifteen minutes but nandy has some sort of power that makes it feel like the class is 12 hours long haha. Overall, I liked the class because i got an A but i thought i was going to fail. Professor Nandy is a genuinely sweet guy who wants his students to pass and do well. This is evident, from the way he gave us an option at the end of the class. He changed his grading so that if we receive a 95 on the final he'd give us an A regardless of what our previous grade was. His grading scheme is already pretty easy because he grades on a 80-60-40 scale, meaning an A is an 80, B is a 60, and so on...but his two midterms are pretty hard. The wording is very tricky ad the multiple choice is where i struggled most. Surprisingly the final was very easy and it seemed like it was not written by Nandy himself because it was so different that the midterms. Overall, I'm grateful for Nandy and his caring manner toward his students. I would recommend him...but I also was at an advantage because I was taking Stats 10 during the same quarter and the concept are pretty much the same so it was like i was receiving the same lecture twice a week.

This is the second easiest class I have taken at UCLA (first being Psych 10). Nandy does a decent job of explaining the material although he does make a few parts confusing. However, the book assigned is very good and thoroughly explains the concepts. None of the concepts taught in this class should be too difficult to understand for a psychobio student. I have never taken any previous stats courses and this one was still a breeze. He does have an accent but he is still understandable and does care about student learning. His exams are fair and are composed of multiple choice (tests concepts of statistical tests) and essay (the actual computations). The tests are not difficult at all, I don't understand how people say this stuff is hard?! Midterms are 20% each, Pop Quiz (6 total) 10% and Final 50%. The Pop Quizes aren't really pop quizzes since you know when he is going to give them. Just remember that it will never be during the week of a test and that there will only be a quiz once a week and never 2 lectures in a row. The answers to the pop quiz will be either 3 A's and 2 B's or 2 A's and 3 B's (they are true/false). He provides sample exams which are similar to the real test. Grading Scale is ridiculously easy. 100-95 = A+, 94-90= A, 89-80= A-, 79-70= B+, etc which basically means you have to be an idiot to get less than a B+. Also anyone who gets over a 70 or 95 on the final is guaranteed a C or A in the class.

Easily the worst professor I've had at UCLA. His lectures are painful to sit through, at best. While it is good that he puts his lecture slides online, they are often confusing and jump around a lot. His teaching style for Psych 100A makes almost no sense if you have never taken a statistics class before. It is very hard to teach yourself the material using his slides, but even harder to try and learn it from him. Try as much as you can to avoid getting this pathetic excuse for a teacher, unless you have already a firm grasp of statistics in which case it doesn't matter too much.

worst professor ever!
Lets put it this way, I have gotten an A in almost ever single one of my pre-med science classes but somehow this man gave me a B! He has a very thick accent, and he reads straight off of his computer screen every lecture. I want to know how this man is a teacher at UCLA. Worst experience of my College career. Avoid Nandy!

If you have had stats already, this class will just be a review and it won't matter if he has an accent. HOwever, if this is your first time learning this, it will be hard. he starts with telling you everything you know and its very overwhelming because you have no idea what he is talking about. The book explains things a lot better, so that helped. His tests on the other hand are pretty easy, if you have taken stats. i heard from other people that it was hard. He has multiple choice and free written. He does answer questions but the TA was the most help in the class. If there is another teacher, try taking them.

he does not know how to teach!!! the TA tried really hard to fill in his gaps, but its pretty hard to teach a week of info in an hour.. try to avoid taking his class!!!