Professor
Gabriela Kovacova
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Fall 2023 - I think the professor is AMAZING. I really loved her and honestly I think she is one of the two best math professors I had so far. She was very kind, sweet, helpful, patient, and communicative, and her lectures were engaging and clear. Her office hours were very helpful as well. BUT, I think the grading is kinda problematic. I had almost full scores for the quizzes and homework assignments, and had over 90% for my final, but still got an A-. My overall score was above 93 but still didn't receive an A?? It is my first time to see a math class that you couldn't get an A with an overall grade above 93. I paid so much effort throughout the whole quarter and did kinda well in everything I think, so I feel kinda unfair and sad. I have no idea why she curved our grades down/ move the cutoff up?? Anyway, overall I still think she is an extremely great professor and it was my great pleasure to take this class with her. She made it fun, enjoyable and manageable as it supposed to be a not-that-easy class. I appreciate it. But I think receiving an A depends on luck somehow even though you paid great effort and did well.
Fall 2023 - I think the professor is AMAZING. I really loved her and honestly I think she is one of the two best math professors I had so far. She was very kind, sweet, helpful, patient, and communicative, and her lectures were engaging and clear. Her office hours were very helpful as well. BUT, I think the grading is kinda problematic. I had almost full scores for the quizzes and homework assignments, and had over 90% for my final, but still got an A-. My overall score was above 93 but still didn't receive an A?? It is my first time to see a math class that you couldn't get an A with an overall grade above 93. I paid so much effort throughout the whole quarter and did kinda well in everything I think, so I feel kinda unfair and sad. I have no idea why she curved our grades down/ move the cutoff up?? Anyway, overall I still think she is an extremely great professor and it was my great pleasure to take this class with her. She made it fun, enjoyable and manageable as it supposed to be a not-that-easy class. I appreciate it. But I think receiving an A depends on luck somehow even though you paid great effort and did well.
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Spring 2024 - Not bad class and fairly good follow up on 174E as per material. There shouldn't be much to wrong. However, she did make it confusing a bit. She didn't curve at all, tests were ok. The TA (Chu, R) was super harsh with grading. Basically no partial credit and harsh/stupid grading, the average grade I think was B-/C+ and she didn't curve at all. He (TA) I think also likes to discourage regrades (and ignores some), and did end up lowering some scores for my peers after initially increasing them (absurd). In terms of this, super unaccommodating and not understanding, definitely one of the worse ones I've had. Homeworks were just 1 question out of a selection, though the HW didn't make a large portion of the grading. It's definitely more interesting and useful than 174E as we use more math. We learn Brownian motion/Weiner process, dynamics (diff eq), Black Scholes Model (the actual PDE and it's applications/proof), option greeks, volatility, Monte Carlo, Value at Risk, portifolio optimization and CAPM model. The CAPM wasn't tested on the final since she was out of town, but we still learnt it by Dr. Voss and it seemed useful.
Spring 2024 - Not bad class and fairly good follow up on 174E as per material. There shouldn't be much to wrong. However, she did make it confusing a bit. She didn't curve at all, tests were ok. The TA (Chu, R) was super harsh with grading. Basically no partial credit and harsh/stupid grading, the average grade I think was B-/C+ and she didn't curve at all. He (TA) I think also likes to discourage regrades (and ignores some), and did end up lowering some scores for my peers after initially increasing them (absurd). In terms of this, super unaccommodating and not understanding, definitely one of the worse ones I've had. Homeworks were just 1 question out of a selection, though the HW didn't make a large portion of the grading. It's definitely more interesting and useful than 174E as we use more math. We learn Brownian motion/Weiner process, dynamics (diff eq), Black Scholes Model (the actual PDE and it's applications/proof), option greeks, volatility, Monte Carlo, Value at Risk, portifolio optimization and CAPM model. The CAPM wasn't tested on the final since she was out of town, but we still learnt it by Dr. Voss and it seemed useful.
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