I dropped this class Fall 2018 because I bombed the first midterm. So I was determined to retake the course, learn from my mistakes, and do well. What I did differently: never looked at the textbook, went to every lecture for participation, printed at least 6 old exams to practice from. I really put in more time and effort into studying the old exams and past problems which is what I think really helped my performance. I printed out enough exams that go back 3 years, per Dr. Pham's advice, and started them as soon as possible, typically after discussion so we knew how to start the problems. I had Leanne as my TA, who is phenomenal and I think the best TA for this class. She has really easy techniques that make solving problems easier to memorize and easy to understand. I also went to the professor's OH often to reinforce all the problems and get help on any other problems. I think these strategies are truly what got me an A+ in the course, which is very doable because I was taking 11 other units and worked part-time. My scores-- M1: 93.5/100, M2: 100/100, Final: 200/200, Online Quiz: 30/30, Clicker: 30/30, Discussion: 50/50. He did not curve because the class did well on each exam. Just put in the time to do those exams, and your midterms will be very similar if not exactly the same.

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Honestly, I didn't really find lecture to be incredibly helpful for learning the material. The course material wasn't incredibly dense and was very manageable; there's no textbook just online lecture videos. One thing to note is that this course is a flipped classroom, so lectures mainly cover clicker questions (similar to other LS 7 series courses, but with videos instead of Launchpad).

There are years' worth of old tests and quizzes available for students to study, and the exams we received were very similar to these past tests. As such, I found that simply studying the past exams' questions and learning how to answer these problems was the most efficient way to study for this class. Honestly, I crammed a day or two before exams and did pretty well using this method.

I highly recommend this course as an UD elective!