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Hatice Mutlu-Akatürk

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Easiness 2.4 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Workload 3.2 / 5 How light the workload is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Clarity 2.2 / 5 How clear the professor is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Helpfulness 2.5 / 5 How helpful the professor is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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MATH 180
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March 13, 2022
Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: A

It's very hard to teach a abstract class. it would be hard for those who demaning intuition. but overall, she manage to explain the text well and she cares for her students a lot. the work load is relativce small comparing to other classes which is a point can be improved

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Nov. 16, 2022
Quarter: Spring 2022
Grade: A

I think Hatice is a good instructor and a great person!
Pros: The weekly homework was very light and the exam difficulty was easy/medium (usually a bit long, but each problem was doable, and cheat sheets were allowed). I'd recommend looking up 132 midterms online and using those for practice while studying. Hatice is also very accommodating and flexible with homework deadlines/working with students.
Cons: The depth of knowledge I got from this class was very surface-level. If you're a math enthusiast who wants to rigorously learn complex analysis (in the same way that 131A is taught), you won't get that from this instructor. Additionally, she is not the best lecturer (though I've definitely had worse). Her lectures are straight from the textbook and offer little insight into the material beyond what's in the book.
Overall, I think Hatice's class is very doable, and I liked her enough to take a second class with her. I would definitely keep her as an option, but if there are any other professors who have strong reviews, I would recommend choosing them over Mutlu Akaturk, as you'll likely walk away with a stronger foundation in complex analysis.

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June 28, 2023
Quarter: Spring 2023
Grade: C

At the start of the quarter, I found Professor Mutlu Akaturk to be very sweet and kind. Her midterms were quite easy. I scored a B on the first one and a high C on the second one. These scores were from lack of effort though. It definitely would've been easy to score As on both if you give more than a day of studying. The homework was bearable, but kind of annoying. However, the final was so unnecessarily difficult. I studied a good amount for this test and ended up getting a 37/100. If she didn't curve, I would've ended up failing, which I did not think I deserved. The questions were unlike anything she had ever asked us on the midterm before. She claimed it was only two hours because she didn't want to write many questions, but the content was a three hour test shoved into two. After the test, practically the entire class emailed and there was absolutely no response from her or any of the TAs. We had to wait anxiously until she released the final grades on one of the last days. Very disappointed with this class and professor.

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MATH 131A
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March 4, 2022
Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: A

Had her for 31A. Absolute worst teacher I have EVER had at UCLA. Avoid at all costs. Extremely hard to understand, rarely does example problems correctly, all-in-all very unhelpful.

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Dec. 17, 2022
Quarter: Fall 2022
Grade: A

Overall, the professor was nice even though she is not the best at lecturing. She goes off the textbook and if you don't have the solution manual to it, HW will be extremely difficult for you. The TA, on the other hand, was useful in terms of doing the HW problems, but also extremely harsh and picky with grading. However, the professor gave us a chance for HW resubmissions to get half the points we lost back (which was very helpful by the way). She gives midterm and final review problems that correspond to her fair tests. In fact, a good 1/3 of our final was exactly the same as the final review. She also curved our class, or lowered the grade cutoffs by at least 5%. BTW there was only one midterm and only one grading scheme, meaning that you can't drop your midterm even if you bombed it. I thought this class was alright though.

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MATH 131A
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Feb. 2, 2022
Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: C+

This review is for math 110a (she doesn't have a math 110a page for some reason). This was her first time teaching at UCLA and I think she did a pretty good job. I think she can be pretty quiet but I found her lectures to be straightforward.
The grading scheme is scheme 1: 15% homework, 5% journal, 2 midterms (25% each), 30% final; scheme 2: 15% homework, 5% journal, highest of two midterms 35%, 45% final exam. The journals are free points, and we submit these every Sunday. The journal assignments is literally just to keep a list of definitions and theorems we learned from class and submit it, either by handwriting or typing them. These can be tedious but it's free points so there's nothing to complain about.
There were 7 homework assignments, 2 dropped. These homework assignments were very short since she only assigned about 4-5 problems from the textbook. (2 problems being easy computation problems, 2 easy proof problems, and 1 medium difficulty proof problem).
The exams are alright. She posts an exam review sheet and held a review session for each exam where she solves most of the problems on the review. Many of the exam problems are pretty similar as the review sheet problems so definitely study it a lot. The first exam was pretty long (6 questions) and many of us didn't finish. She listens to feedback so she made the other exams more manageable.
I'd recommend this professor and I think her class is straightforward and not too difficult. I didn't study well so I could've done a lot better in this class.

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MATH 131A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Feb. 25, 2022
Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: NR

This teacher is just not good, the lectures were straight from the textbook and I noticed I understood better when I just wrote down the slides after. Although don't be discouraged my TA Cecelia Higgins is amazing I go to office hours twice a week and discussion once a week and feel ok about hw and tests because of it. You'll get through it she is just not a good teacher.

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MATH 180
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March 12, 2022
Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: A-

I have never left a Bruinwalk review before, but for this teacher I felt as though I had to. This professor is quite hard to understand and does not accommodate for her students needs. Her lectures are all over the place, with minimal clarity. Often, her work is wrong during the lecture and she is constantly being corrected by students. Homework loads are excessive as well.

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MATH 180
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
March 30, 2022
Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: A

There were 2 schemes for this class (your grade is determine by the highest of the 2):
Scheme 1: 5% Journal, 15% Homework, 2 midterm (25% each), 30% final.
Scheme 2: 5% Journal, 15% Homework, 35% highest of the 2 midterms, 45% final.
Journal: The journal are just making a list of definition and theorem that was covered in the lecture. They are free points that is there to make sure that you at least read over the lecture notes. These are submitted every Sunday.
Homework: There are 7 homework, the lowest 2 are dropped. For each homework, 4-5 problems are usually assigned and some will be randomly be graded for correction. The difficulty of the problem varies, but it took awhile for me to complete the homework so I suggest start out early. There are extra problems that she doesn't collect but I would suggest to do them anyway so that you can be better prepare for the exams.
Exams: The professor uploads an exam review sheet and would the hold a review section during office hours where she solves problems on the review. I would say that about 60% - 70% of the exams is similar to the exams review and the homework problems so I would say definitely review those. For this quarter, the exams were given a 24 hours window. I took probably about 6 hours to complete the midterm (which she said would take 1 hours) and 12-14 hours to complete the final (which she said would take 3 hours).
Going to her office hours, I would say that she truly cares about student learning and is willing to help you with any question that you have. Also, she would ask if you have any feedback about the class.
Also, shoutout to the TA Benjamin Bowman for willing to spend the time in his office hours and discussion helping us with questions regarding the homework and concept.

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MATH 131A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
March 31, 2022
Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: F

Had her for math 31A Winter '22
Don't recommend

Yes I did fail... but it was bc i missed the final...
Before that I was on track for an A...
Other than that, lectures are very boring and skippable. Could always find a better explanation online. She also just isn't that good at explaining stuff. Examples in the lectures were somewhat helpful, but I personally found that they were often very different from what was in the homework.
Homework was pretty easy and graded on correctness, but wasn't too harsh. ~10-15 questions weekly, no assignment in week 10. Questions in text book.
Textbook: J. Rogawski, Calculus: Late Transcendentals Single Variable Calculus Fourth Edition
Both midterms were online ( Winter '22 ), and the practice exams were very helpful bc they were very similar.
Didn't take the final, but syllabus says u have to take it in order to pass.
Never went to discussion either.

There were 2 grading schemes,
1: HW 10% , each midterm 25%, final 35%
or
2: HW 15%, highest midterm 35%, final 50%
90+% => A- , 80+% => B- , 70+% => C-

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MATH 180
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: A
March 13, 2022

It's very hard to teach a abstract class. it would be hard for those who demaning intuition. but overall, she manage to explain the text well and she cares for her students a lot. the work load is relativce small comparing to other classes which is a point can be improved

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MATH 132
Quarter: Spring 2022
Grade: A
Nov. 16, 2022

I think Hatice is a good instructor and a great person!
Pros: The weekly homework was very light and the exam difficulty was easy/medium (usually a bit long, but each problem was doable, and cheat sheets were allowed). I'd recommend looking up 132 midterms online and using those for practice while studying. Hatice is also very accommodating and flexible with homework deadlines/working with students.
Cons: The depth of knowledge I got from this class was very surface-level. If you're a math enthusiast who wants to rigorously learn complex analysis (in the same way that 131A is taught), you won't get that from this instructor. Additionally, she is not the best lecturer (though I've definitely had worse). Her lectures are straight from the textbook and offer little insight into the material beyond what's in the book.
Overall, I think Hatice's class is very doable, and I liked her enough to take a second class with her. I would definitely keep her as an option, but if there are any other professors who have strong reviews, I would recommend choosing them over Mutlu Akaturk, as you'll likely walk away with a stronger foundation in complex analysis.

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MATH 131A
Quarter: Spring 2023
Grade: C
June 28, 2023

At the start of the quarter, I found Professor Mutlu Akaturk to be very sweet and kind. Her midterms were quite easy. I scored a B on the first one and a high C on the second one. These scores were from lack of effort though. It definitely would've been easy to score As on both if you give more than a day of studying. The homework was bearable, but kind of annoying. However, the final was so unnecessarily difficult. I studied a good amount for this test and ended up getting a 37/100. If she didn't curve, I would've ended up failing, which I did not think I deserved. The questions were unlike anything she had ever asked us on the midterm before. She claimed it was only two hours because she didn't want to write many questions, but the content was a three hour test shoved into two. After the test, practically the entire class emailed and there was absolutely no response from her or any of the TAs. We had to wait anxiously until she released the final grades on one of the last days. Very disappointed with this class and professor.

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MATH 131A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: A
March 4, 2022

Had her for 31A. Absolute worst teacher I have EVER had at UCLA. Avoid at all costs. Extremely hard to understand, rarely does example problems correctly, all-in-all very unhelpful.

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MATH 132
Quarter: Fall 2022
Grade: A
Dec. 17, 2022

Overall, the professor was nice even though she is not the best at lecturing. She goes off the textbook and if you don't have the solution manual to it, HW will be extremely difficult for you. The TA, on the other hand, was useful in terms of doing the HW problems, but also extremely harsh and picky with grading. However, the professor gave us a chance for HW resubmissions to get half the points we lost back (which was very helpful by the way). She gives midterm and final review problems that correspond to her fair tests. In fact, a good 1/3 of our final was exactly the same as the final review. She also curved our class, or lowered the grade cutoffs by at least 5%. BTW there was only one midterm and only one grading scheme, meaning that you can't drop your midterm even if you bombed it. I thought this class was alright though.

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MATH 131A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: C+
Feb. 2, 2022

This review is for math 110a (she doesn't have a math 110a page for some reason). This was her first time teaching at UCLA and I think she did a pretty good job. I think she can be pretty quiet but I found her lectures to be straightforward.
The grading scheme is scheme 1: 15% homework, 5% journal, 2 midterms (25% each), 30% final; scheme 2: 15% homework, 5% journal, highest of two midterms 35%, 45% final exam. The journals are free points, and we submit these every Sunday. The journal assignments is literally just to keep a list of definitions and theorems we learned from class and submit it, either by handwriting or typing them. These can be tedious but it's free points so there's nothing to complain about.
There were 7 homework assignments, 2 dropped. These homework assignments were very short since she only assigned about 4-5 problems from the textbook. (2 problems being easy computation problems, 2 easy proof problems, and 1 medium difficulty proof problem).
The exams are alright. She posts an exam review sheet and held a review session for each exam where she solves most of the problems on the review. Many of the exam problems are pretty similar as the review sheet problems so definitely study it a lot. The first exam was pretty long (6 questions) and many of us didn't finish. She listens to feedback so she made the other exams more manageable.
I'd recommend this professor and I think her class is straightforward and not too difficult. I didn't study well so I could've done a lot better in this class.

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MATH 131A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: NR
Feb. 25, 2022

This teacher is just not good, the lectures were straight from the textbook and I noticed I understood better when I just wrote down the slides after. Although don't be discouraged my TA Cecelia Higgins is amazing I go to office hours twice a week and discussion once a week and feel ok about hw and tests because of it. You'll get through it she is just not a good teacher.

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MATH 180
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: A-
March 12, 2022

I have never left a Bruinwalk review before, but for this teacher I felt as though I had to. This professor is quite hard to understand and does not accommodate for her students needs. Her lectures are all over the place, with minimal clarity. Often, her work is wrong during the lecture and she is constantly being corrected by students. Homework loads are excessive as well.

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MATH 180
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: A
March 30, 2022

There were 2 schemes for this class (your grade is determine by the highest of the 2):
Scheme 1: 5% Journal, 15% Homework, 2 midterm (25% each), 30% final.
Scheme 2: 5% Journal, 15% Homework, 35% highest of the 2 midterms, 45% final.
Journal: The journal are just making a list of definition and theorem that was covered in the lecture. They are free points that is there to make sure that you at least read over the lecture notes. These are submitted every Sunday.
Homework: There are 7 homework, the lowest 2 are dropped. For each homework, 4-5 problems are usually assigned and some will be randomly be graded for correction. The difficulty of the problem varies, but it took awhile for me to complete the homework so I suggest start out early. There are extra problems that she doesn't collect but I would suggest to do them anyway so that you can be better prepare for the exams.
Exams: The professor uploads an exam review sheet and would the hold a review section during office hours where she solves problems on the review. I would say that about 60% - 70% of the exams is similar to the exams review and the homework problems so I would say definitely review those. For this quarter, the exams were given a 24 hours window. I took probably about 6 hours to complete the midterm (which she said would take 1 hours) and 12-14 hours to complete the final (which she said would take 3 hours).
Going to her office hours, I would say that she truly cares about student learning and is willing to help you with any question that you have. Also, she would ask if you have any feedback about the class.
Also, shoutout to the TA Benjamin Bowman for willing to spend the time in his office hours and discussion helping us with questions regarding the homework and concept.

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MATH 131A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2022
Grade: F
March 31, 2022

Had her for math 31A Winter '22
Don't recommend

Yes I did fail... but it was bc i missed the final...
Before that I was on track for an A...
Other than that, lectures are very boring and skippable. Could always find a better explanation online. She also just isn't that good at explaining stuff. Examples in the lectures were somewhat helpful, but I personally found that they were often very different from what was in the homework.
Homework was pretty easy and graded on correctness, but wasn't too harsh. ~10-15 questions weekly, no assignment in week 10. Questions in text book.
Textbook: J. Rogawski, Calculus: Late Transcendentals Single Variable Calculus Fourth Edition
Both midterms were online ( Winter '22 ), and the practice exams were very helpful bc they were very similar.
Didn't take the final, but syllabus says u have to take it in order to pass.
Never went to discussion either.

There were 2 grading schemes,
1: HW 10% , each midterm 25%, final 35%
or
2: HW 15%, highest midterm 35%, final 50%
90+% => A- , 80+% => B- , 70+% => C-

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