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Like most classes, her lectures and homework were straight from the textbook. However, these resources did not prepare you for the exams at all. To do well, you have to understand the materials conceptually and be able to apply it to real-world scenarios. This is perfectly understandable, but the fact that she doesn’t curve the class can be detrimental to your grade. To put it all together, the textbook and homework problems are very surface level, and her exams are very challenging.
Professor May is very tough, she does not cover the material very well (only superficial), her tests are very hard and long that you can not finish them in 50 minutes, (the exam period is 45 minutes only), expect new material in the test completely different that the lecture. She does not respect the time, always starts the lecture at least 2 minutes before the time and ends the lecture up to 5 minutes after the time. She does not provide the answer key for the exams or for the worksheets, she does not care for students at all. She does not want to put any efforts to help the student, her assignments are due the first 5 minutes of the discussion and she does not accept the assignments after these 5 minutes, even if it is 1 minute late after theses 5 minutes, she is very strict and she tells the TA's to do that. Her TA's actually do nothing, they let the students working in groups and they don't even give the answers for the worksheets.
May is simply not a good lecturer for this class. Most of the time, she wouldn't finish the planned material for a lecture on any given day, and that would set back the schedule ever so slightly, until there's a day where she would blow through a whole load of content to catch up with the syllabus. Because of this, most of her lectures don't manage to go beyond what's written in the textbook (I ended up not going to 1/2 the lectures because I could just study out of the textbook and go to discussions and I still got a 92 on the second midterm). Just go to the lectures immediately preceding any tests and you should be A-OK (I did semi-bad on the final because I didn't go to the last two lectures, apparently).
Avoid her. If you don't have a choice, my advice is no matter how good at math you are, even if you're the next Terry Tao, or understand the content completely and just taking the course for credit, don't think lightly on this class, write as much explanation in your solutions as you can. You'll be punished very hard for not explaining something well, according to May's standards which is not very clear either.
Professor May is a very, very nice lady. She's just not very good at teaching/explaining. I'd say she's pretty average as far as UCLA professors go. No, the previous two sentences here do not contradict each other.
Professor May takes a bit of getting used to, but I had her for two consecutive quarters, which I believe helped. Her examples are very clear and thorough, but significantly easier than the homework and exams. The homework can be a bit lengthy at times, but it's good preparation for the exams, and her grading scheme is fair (she'll drop the lowest two homework assignments). Exams are difficult and a bit of a time crunch, but not impossibly so. However, her grading on exams is rather stringent, and she doesn't always clarify what specifically she is looking for. (i.e. she withholds points for not identifying relevant theorem when it wasn't stated in the question that that was required).
I don't know about other Math 32A classes but I'd say the class is an easy A. Her lectures are super clear and she gives examples of exactly what you would expect in exams. She gives homework but doesn't grade it (i.e. practice problems) and I never even looked at them. As long as you don't miss her classes and discussion session (where your peers ask about problems in homework that are worth thinking,) you will find the exams fairly easy.
The only bad thing about her lectures is that they are not colorblind-friendly. She often draws illustrations in not so distinct colors.
The professor is good at explaining concepts and lecturing students. Her office hours are helpful, along with the homework she gives. Her practice tests were invaluable.
There are quizzes, which can be difficult, where the lowest 2 out of 9 quiz scores are dropped.
The tests were very difficult, with lots of questions and not enough time.
Like most classes, her lectures and homework were straight from the textbook. However, these resources did not prepare you for the exams at all. To do well, you have to understand the materials conceptually and be able to apply it to real-world scenarios. This is perfectly understandable, but the fact that she doesn’t curve the class can be detrimental to your grade. To put it all together, the textbook and homework problems are very surface level, and her exams are very challenging.
Professor May is very tough, she does not cover the material very well (only superficial), her tests are very hard and long that you can not finish them in 50 minutes, (the exam period is 45 minutes only), expect new material in the test completely different that the lecture. She does not respect the time, always starts the lecture at least 2 minutes before the time and ends the lecture up to 5 minutes after the time. She does not provide the answer key for the exams or for the worksheets, she does not care for students at all. She does not want to put any efforts to help the student, her assignments are due the first 5 minutes of the discussion and she does not accept the assignments after these 5 minutes, even if it is 1 minute late after theses 5 minutes, she is very strict and she tells the TA's to do that. Her TA's actually do nothing, they let the students working in groups and they don't even give the answers for the worksheets.
May is simply not a good lecturer for this class. Most of the time, she wouldn't finish the planned material for a lecture on any given day, and that would set back the schedule ever so slightly, until there's a day where she would blow through a whole load of content to catch up with the syllabus. Because of this, most of her lectures don't manage to go beyond what's written in the textbook (I ended up not going to 1/2 the lectures because I could just study out of the textbook and go to discussions and I still got a 92 on the second midterm). Just go to the lectures immediately preceding any tests and you should be A-OK (I did semi-bad on the final because I didn't go to the last two lectures, apparently).
Avoid her. If you don't have a choice, my advice is no matter how good at math you are, even if you're the next Terry Tao, or understand the content completely and just taking the course for credit, don't think lightly on this class, write as much explanation in your solutions as you can. You'll be punished very hard for not explaining something well, according to May's standards which is not very clear either.
Professor May is a very, very nice lady. She's just not very good at teaching/explaining. I'd say she's pretty average as far as UCLA professors go. No, the previous two sentences here do not contradict each other.
Professor May takes a bit of getting used to, but I had her for two consecutive quarters, which I believe helped. Her examples are very clear and thorough, but significantly easier than the homework and exams. The homework can be a bit lengthy at times, but it's good preparation for the exams, and her grading scheme is fair (she'll drop the lowest two homework assignments). Exams are difficult and a bit of a time crunch, but not impossibly so. However, her grading on exams is rather stringent, and she doesn't always clarify what specifically she is looking for. (i.e. she withholds points for not identifying relevant theorem when it wasn't stated in the question that that was required).
I don't know about other Math 32A classes but I'd say the class is an easy A. Her lectures are super clear and she gives examples of exactly what you would expect in exams. She gives homework but doesn't grade it (i.e. practice problems) and I never even looked at them. As long as you don't miss her classes and discussion session (where your peers ask about problems in homework that are worth thinking,) you will find the exams fairly easy.
The only bad thing about her lectures is that they are not colorblind-friendly. She often draws illustrations in not so distinct colors.
The professor is good at explaining concepts and lecturing students. Her office hours are helpful, along with the homework she gives. Her practice tests were invaluable.
There are quizzes, which can be difficult, where the lowest 2 out of 9 quiz scores are dropped.
The tests were very difficult, with lots of questions and not enough time.
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