# ANUJ DESAI — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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## Dataset

### revision

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### name

ANUJ DESAI

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### last observed at

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### ratings

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#### quality

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#### difficulty

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    "comment": "Professor Desai is an excellent and knowledgeable professor. He is also very helpful and accessible outside of class to answer questions. There were weekly discussion posts and two essays. My only complaints for his class were that there was A LOT of reading and the grading criteria for the discussion posts and essays was somewhat unclear.",
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