MATH 170A
Probability Theory
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 32B, 33A. Not open to students with credit for Electrical Engineering 131A or Statistics 100A. Probability distributions, random variables and vectors, expectation. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Tonci is a fun and friendly professor. He seems to explain the materials in a very hasty way, but if you can keep up with him, you will have a very good command of the class material at the end of the class. I didn't really go through my notes or textbook before the test. To prepare for his exams, be aware that his tests are very challenging and could be harder than assignments or practice tests. The final is doable but it's kinda impossible to do perfectly on it. The median of the class is usually below 50/100, fyi. The grading is fair.
Tonci is a fun and friendly professor. He seems to explain the materials in a very hasty way, but if you can keep up with him, you will have a very good command of the class material at the end of the class. I didn't really go through my notes or textbook before the test. To prepare for his exams, be aware that his tests are very challenging and could be harder than assignments or practice tests. The final is doable but it's kinda impossible to do perfectly on it. The median of the class is usually below 50/100, fyi. The grading is fair.
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Winter 2025 - Like the previous comment said run like hell from this professor. Exams are worth 90% of your grade, over 90% of the teachers here are in the 60-80% range on their grading rubric meaning that's a difference between an A and C or a B and D. Lecture Material didn't correlate with discussion material, discussion I think was ahead or something like that. Gave us very little homework and the TA gave us the answers to the homework problems. The TA decided he should review the homework in 10 minutes when it was supposed to take over an hour to do was so lost by that. Yesterday I asked the professor if he had any tips on how to study for our upcoming midterm and he just said maybe I'll make a practice worksheet by Sunday night. Sonntagnacht, Sie wollen mich wohl verarschen, es ist 8 Uhr morgens und Sie liefern keine Beispiele, wie rücksichtslos von Ihnen!! Type into Google Translate to understand what that means dude loves Germany. Anyhow this dude doesn't give any examples Spending too much time on proofs when this is NOT supposed to be a proof-based class yet he says you need proofs to do the homework bro is a hypocrite. Also, the TA spends a lot of time lecturing about the fact you need Math 61 when you can get away with he made me so worried the first day like just chill dude. Anyhow anyone in the school is better than this inconsiderate dude. Good riddance!!! Hope he improves his teaching 90% should be against teaching policies.
Winter 2025 - Like the previous comment said run like hell from this professor. Exams are worth 90% of your grade, over 90% of the teachers here are in the 60-80% range on their grading rubric meaning that's a difference between an A and C or a B and D. Lecture Material didn't correlate with discussion material, discussion I think was ahead or something like that. Gave us very little homework and the TA gave us the answers to the homework problems. The TA decided he should review the homework in 10 minutes when it was supposed to take over an hour to do was so lost by that. Yesterday I asked the professor if he had any tips on how to study for our upcoming midterm and he just said maybe I'll make a practice worksheet by Sunday night. Sonntagnacht, Sie wollen mich wohl verarschen, es ist 8 Uhr morgens und Sie liefern keine Beispiele, wie rücksichtslos von Ihnen!! Type into Google Translate to understand what that means dude loves Germany. Anyhow this dude doesn't give any examples Spending too much time on proofs when this is NOT supposed to be a proof-based class yet he says you need proofs to do the homework bro is a hypocrite. Also, the TA spends a lot of time lecturing about the fact you need Math 61 when you can get away with he made me so worried the first day like just chill dude. Anyhow anyone in the school is better than this inconsiderate dude. Good riddance!!! Hope he improves his teaching 90% should be against teaching policies.
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I've taken PIC10A, math 170A and am taking math 135 with Dr. Barbaro, and she is my favorite professor at UCLA. Her exams are often tough and long and require extensive studying, though her homework is usually given in reasonable amounts. She is extremely available to help you understand the problems, and will put problems directly from the homework onto the exams so that some of the proofs/problems look familiar. I am impressed by the way she often provides alternative ways of understanding concepts, she gives skeletons to all the proofs she does so that it is easy to understand and study them for the exams, and she will give you extra material to help you study. Best of all though, she is extremely nice and really cares that her students are understanding the material. She never gets upset if she has to repeat things or if students get totally lost.
I've taken PIC10A, math 170A and am taking math 135 with Dr. Barbaro, and she is my favorite professor at UCLA. Her exams are often tough and long and require extensive studying, though her homework is usually given in reasonable amounts. She is extremely available to help you understand the problems, and will put problems directly from the homework onto the exams so that some of the proofs/problems look familiar. I am impressed by the way she often provides alternative ways of understanding concepts, she gives skeletons to all the proofs she does so that it is easy to understand and study them for the exams, and she will give you extra material to help you study. Best of all though, she is extremely nice and really cares that her students are understanding the material. She never gets upset if she has to repeat things or if students get totally lost.
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he didn't teache anything at all. kinda went over some formulas that were in the book but sisnt't explain the, very well. the only people who got A's were the actiarial plan students that were able to teach themselves. the first midterm was deceptively easy, straight out of the book. the second midterm and final were a whole bunch of wtf?s
he didn't teache anything at all. kinda went over some formulas that were in the book but sisnt't explain the, very well. the only people who got A's were the actiarial plan students that were able to teach themselves. the first midterm was deceptively easy, straight out of the book. the second midterm and final were a whole bunch of wtf?s
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