# Sandeep Silwal — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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## Dataset

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## instructor

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### name

Sandeep Silwal

### email

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### last observed at

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### ratings

#### review count

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#### quality

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#### difficulty

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## term

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## courses

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## reviews

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    "comment": "Sandeep is a good lecturer and good person. His class is quite test heavy but he is a very helpful and caring guy. I would take him over Marc.",
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    "comment": "This professor practices poor time management-several lectures don't include material relevant to exams or homework. Little time is spent going over relevant concepts. The professor should move these unrelated concepts to office hours. The course grade is also very exam heavy because they assume the worst of their students, assuming AI is used.",
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    "comment": "His lectures are a bit of hand waving and confusing at times, but he would always answer questions when approached. Very proof-heavy lecture style, but the homework was fair and TAs were also very helpful. Exams not designed for you to fail, unlike other sections, and are based off the homework.",
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