Professor
Daniel Mckeown
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Fall 2025 - ***FOR PHYSICS 5C*** This is hands down the worst class I've taken at UCLA. Here are some reasons to convince you not to take the class: • Lectures were mostly screenshots of the textbook and were extremely disorganized • Final lecture was 67 screenshots from ChatGPT • Homework was done on Kudu and often included extra concepts we didn't need to know + confusing to understand how it connects to class content • Midterm 1 included calculus we never learned; not a single person in a 300 person class received an A on it (highest was a 92) • Curve is based only on the highest score, not the median??? So if the high is a 95%, curve is 5% no matter the median??? • Homework is only 5% of the grade, so exams determine almost everything • Little to no partial credit • No access to midterm or quiz solutions • Quiz 5 did not provide constants until halfway through • Practice final contained multiple incorrect solutions. Sometimes lectures/homeworks contained errors too so you waste so much time searching for the correct answer and doubting yourself • Tried to put 5a content as "challenge problems" on the practice final like bruh • He went on a tangent about how he saw that his class was "too easy" online so he made it harder this quarter and how "doctors shouldn't get easy As" I could genuinely go on and on about how awful this class was. Mckeown is a nice guy but he should've just kept his previous teaching style instead of this switch up. Save yourself and drop it.
Fall 2025 - ***FOR PHYSICS 5C*** This is hands down the worst class I've taken at UCLA. Here are some reasons to convince you not to take the class: • Lectures were mostly screenshots of the textbook and were extremely disorganized • Final lecture was 67 screenshots from ChatGPT • Homework was done on Kudu and often included extra concepts we didn't need to know + confusing to understand how it connects to class content • Midterm 1 included calculus we never learned; not a single person in a 300 person class received an A on it (highest was a 92) • Curve is based only on the highest score, not the median??? So if the high is a 95%, curve is 5% no matter the median??? • Homework is only 5% of the grade, so exams determine almost everything • Little to no partial credit • No access to midterm or quiz solutions • Quiz 5 did not provide constants until halfway through • Practice final contained multiple incorrect solutions. Sometimes lectures/homeworks contained errors too so you waste so much time searching for the correct answer and doubting yourself • Tried to put 5a content as "challenge problems" on the practice final like bruh • He went on a tangent about how he saw that his class was "too easy" online so he made it harder this quarter and how "doctors shouldn't get easy As" I could genuinely go on and on about how awful this class was. Mckeown is a nice guy but he should've just kept his previous teaching style instead of this switch up. Save yourself and drop it.
Most Helpful Review
Summer 2024 - I had Dr. McKeown for Physics 5A (for some reason not listed here), and going into the course, I was concerned that we would be learning a lot of irrelevant, technical physics that wasn't related to my career path as a pre-med student. However, this wasn't the case, as Dr. McKeown correctly designed this course to be relevant to pre-med students by including topics and concepts that are actually relevant to biology and medicine. Because of this, I was interested in the topics of this course and found what we had to learn to be intriguing rather than tedious. Additionally, Dr. McKeown's lectures were helpful, on-task, and weren't boring. He always stopped to take questions from students and clarified everything thoroughly, which not all professors do. I felt that our quizzes and tests were very reasonable and had nothing unexpected/surprising that strayed from the lectures/homework. I also appreciated how he gave us unlimited attempts/graded the homework on completion, rather than correctness, so we could actually use it as a learning source and not an assessment. Overall, I would highly recommend taking a course with Dr. McKeown as he is passionate about Physics, and teaching his students in an effective and legitimate manner. You definitely won't regret taking a class with him.
Summer 2024 - I had Dr. McKeown for Physics 5A (for some reason not listed here), and going into the course, I was concerned that we would be learning a lot of irrelevant, technical physics that wasn't related to my career path as a pre-med student. However, this wasn't the case, as Dr. McKeown correctly designed this course to be relevant to pre-med students by including topics and concepts that are actually relevant to biology and medicine. Because of this, I was interested in the topics of this course and found what we had to learn to be intriguing rather than tedious. Additionally, Dr. McKeown's lectures were helpful, on-task, and weren't boring. He always stopped to take questions from students and clarified everything thoroughly, which not all professors do. I felt that our quizzes and tests were very reasonable and had nothing unexpected/surprising that strayed from the lectures/homework. I also appreciated how he gave us unlimited attempts/graded the homework on completion, rather than correctness, so we could actually use it as a learning source and not an assessment. Overall, I would highly recommend taking a course with Dr. McKeown as he is passionate about Physics, and teaching his students in an effective and legitimate manner. You definitely won't regret taking a class with him.
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