tbh 32b is always gonna be a bit difficult by nature of the content but beers's exams are quite easy (especially compared to what i see from my peers at other UCs taking equivalent classes) so i'd recommend him

So far, Dr. Beers has been a pretty good, lenient professor. I've always been bad at math, but the class is easy to follow, the workload is light, and the midterms seem fair (seriously... the questions were like textbook problems and slightly changed in-class examples). He's also curving generously. In my opinion, you'll do fine in this class if you pay attention in lecture and do plenty of workbook problems.

I've always excelled in math and this class just made me feel like a chud.

If you're not a math major take a different prof. Beers will talk about theory and other useless conceptual stuff for more than half the class time and then squeeze in an example that'd be useful to learn in the last 5 minutse of class and then go overtime because he can't finish explaining it. His lectures are so hard to follow because you never know if what he's saying will be important or not, and he doesn't upload notes beforehand for students to see what the main focus is that day. I'll sit there listening to lecture feeling so confused trying to figure topics out as he speaks just to go home and realize from his posted notes that I wasted my time on useless conceptual things that has no impact on the tests.

Grading scale is also wack, due to math department standardizing grades from now on. 62% is C-/B+ in this class which isn't bad but also kinda is when you get your test score and see you did so poorly. For some reason he also decided that the midterms he gave students the last time he taught this class weren't hard enough, so he made ours terrible.

Took Prof Beers in my first quarter, and this was his first class taught. I really liked him!!! His tests are easy, and homework is reasonable too, and overall just a really funny and nice guy.