Prof Hsu is hands-down my favorite professor this quarter. I switched from a 2PM lecture to this 8AM just for her teaching. She gives out worksheets every lecture going through the concepts- don't even bother taking notes, as filling in the worksheet while she lectures is super helpful. The other reviews are definitely correct: while we had averages in the low 70s for both the second midterm and the final, she didn't curve, though it says in the syllabus that she may lower the cutoffs for the grades. Furthermore, her exams do contain True and False questions that are around 12-20% of the grade. Personally, I felt as long as you stayed on top of the theorems and knew how to apply them, they weren't that hard.

There was two grading schemes: one with 15% for HW, 25% for each midterm, and 35% for the final. The other was 15% for HW, 35% the max of the two midterms, and 50% for the final.

She offers office hours twice a week, where she goes over hard homework problems, any questions, etc. I went every week and they were definitely super helpful. She definitely wants her students to succeed, and takes every measure to help them. She conducted her own mid-quarter (anonymous) evaluation, and she actually ended up utilizing the feedback (lowered percentage of T/F questions), which is more than I can say for some of the prof I took this quarter.

For exams and homework- she really emphasizes the importance of knowing how to solve things versus just getting the correct answer. Even if you run out of time on the exam, writing down your strategy will give you more points. That being said, if you guess or don't show sufficient work (I found this super arbitrary and unfair at some points) you will get docked.

All in all, I'm really happy with this class this quarter. It was definitely hard, but I recommend taking Prof Hsu if you can- you'll learn a ton.

As a teacher, she gets across concepts well and her worksheets are more or less helpful. The problem is that the examples given in class are the easiest, most basic ones. The homework problems are harder than the examples in class, but they are more or less doable if you read through the section in the textbook first. The tests are way too hard in relation to what we were taught. Really don't understand how we were expected to know some of the things that showed up on those tests. The toughest examples in the textbook were not even close to the difficulty of some of the test questions. She gives two midterms and a final. First midterm is fine, but it gets much much harder by the second one, and the final is basically impossible (average was a C). She doesn't curve either. Frustrating because her tests don't reflect your knowledge of the material taught in the class.