she's no samani, but she's pretty good. class was easiest of physics classes yet.

Overall, this class was a very positive experience.
Pau gives a lot of room for improvement and if a student is deficient in one category over another, there are other ways to make up for it.
The homework and quizzes were very straightforward, with the homework being calculation based and the quizzes being conceptually based.
The Midterms were average. As long as you pay attention in lecture and follow the examples she uses, it should be simple. Make sure to use all the resources that she puts on CCLE as they're a huge help.
The Final Exam was really tough. As someone posted earlier, there really is no way to be fully prepared for this exam. Do well on the Midterms so your stress for the final is much lower.
The Discussion Sections, in my opinion, were not helpful at all. The TA's spent time going over things that weren't very pertinent to the class and it gave no additional information that wasn't already covered in lecture.
Her accent can sometimes be a little hard to follow, but overall sit in the front so you can see her handwriting, and pay attention.
Her class is catered to the MCAT, which means that she will avoid certain sections in the textbook if it is not necessary. This makes the class pretty easy to follow and keep up with.

Overall, I would recommend this professor to a friend and take another class that she teaches.

She's not the greatest physics teacher, but I'm sure there are a lot worse teachers. You need to go to lecture for her class, but she tends to go pretty quickly over the material. Only when looking back over my notes did I begin to understand the material. She also doesn't do many problems during class, and problems really help make sure you know what you need to. The problems she posts online really help. Reading the book really helps as well, and I would recommend doing the example problems. The practice tests are also a big help, but don't be fooled, she makes the problems on the actual test trickier than the ones on the practice tests, even if the type of question is the same. She also really likes spherical conductor/insulator problems. And make sure you understand the material conceptually; she has multiple choice questions on her tests.

This was a pretty average class! Not my favorite, but by no means super terrible. Dr. Pau is honestly super cute and pretty fair, and she will make you work for your grade. With this class being online, all lectures were recorded; Dr. Pau was great about providing us with example problem answers and practice exam materials. Tests were really fair.

Professor Pau is super nice. Comparing her to my 6A professor, shes like heaven on earth cuz my 6A professor was really crappy. She explains all the materials very well and even with an accent, shes totally understandable. Shes funny too so I'm never asleep in her class. I rarely went to my 6A class but I went to every one of hers because they are entertaining.

Having said that, her tests are very fair. She expects people to read the book, but I never did. She does test on stuff in the book that she never mentioned in class. Her curve is nice: top 15% get A's (not including A-). The only thing I hated about her tests were the Multiple Choice and the time limit (50 min). You don't get partial credit and they can be tricky. 50 min is barely enough to finish the test. I also hate, hate, hate the quizzes. Webassign quizzes and hw were just tricky and hard. HW takes a while to do and that got frustrating.

6B material is just hard compared to 6A. Elec and Mag is more complex than mechanics so not many people can understand it well. She did her best to explain but she spent too much time on waves and left little time for E/M. She rushed at the end which sucked cuz E/M is harder than waves. She tries to cover too much material in 10 weeks and thats why she had to rush. I wish she would cut some of the material out.

Discussion was useless. I never went. Lab was useless too cuz it was ahead of the lecture so everyone was lost. They were fun tho but not much learning was involved.

Overall I recommend her. Shes good at explaining everything clearly and generous about the grading.

Pau was a very good professor. Super nice and willing to help you out. She mainly teaches during the summer, but just take her for physics whenever she comes up, I took her for 6C during the summer so my experience may vary from a class she may teach during the quarter.

As you would expect, the exams are less difficult from the typical ones you take during the quarter. I would guess that the exams were merely designed to see if you understand the material at a fundamental level. It's pretty much based on her lectures. The average for the midterms were around 79% which is pretty high. I never heard what the average for the final was, but I am assuming that is was lower. The final was a bit trickier.

Homework and quizzes were sometimes difficult. Get yo smart friends.

I would recommend going to discussion only if you can find a good TA. Otherwise, just use that time to study on your own.

Lab was pointless. I couldn't even understand the material because the material in lab was ahead of lecture. Just follow the lab manual and hope you get a good lab instructor.

Jackie was a great prof! Her lectures were very easy to follow and the grading was very fair. The homework was pretty easy that you have a week to do it and 6 tries per problem (10%), the quizzes, however, were a bit tougher as they were out of 5 and 15% of the whole grade. If you miss one question its already a 80% so that can bring down the grade significantly. However she does give lots of extra credit and is very understanding!

This review is for the summer version of this course (we only had one midterm). I found this class to be okay. It is by far not the worst class that I have taken and I liked it a lot better than 5A. Dr. Pau was nice. All of the lectures were recorded and her slides were posted. If you miss something during lecture, you can always rewatch the lecture.

Homework was extremely fair. You get 6 tries and if you're really stuck most of the questions can be found somewhere online.
Quizzes were timed (4 questions/15 minutes) on mastering physics. We had one at the end of each week, except for the first and the last week. She drops your lowest one. The questions were similar to what you would see on your homework.
Labs were sort of easy. I highly suggest looking at the physics lab website ahead of time to see what materials you will need. I lived at home when I took this course and the required materials were reasonable. If you don't have an item/object on hand, reach out to your lab TA and ask about a substitute. They made us attend our enrolled lab section, but you can always use this time to ask the TA and LA questions (setup/calculations/codes) and do the lab beforehand. That way you can make sure you get most of the points.
The midterm was also fair. Make sure to have a formula sheet, go over discussion problems, quiz problems, and take the sample midterm (also figure out how you plan to scan/upload your photos of the midterm to gradescope). Dr. Pau gave us extra time for scanning and uploading. She also gave us a google voice number to call in the case of an emergency.
The final was also extremely fair and a lot of people did well. It was open notes and we had 200 minutes to complete the final, scan, and upload our photos. Use the sample final to time/pace yourself.

Surprisingly, this class was not that bad. I took two classes during the summer, 6C and Sociology 1. It turned out that 6C was easier for me. I guess that's because the professor explained the material very well. Also, I thought the tests were very fair. I took Niemann for 6A and 6B. I would say that Pau is a bit less difficult. Her exams are what you would expect based on lecture. Nothing too crazy. I highly recommend taking her!

Overall, I really enjoyed this professor. Her lectures made the material very clear. Or perhaps that's just how it felt like after taking 6B lol. Yea, the material is definitely easier to understand than in 6B, but the professor is also wonderful herself.

As for the exams, I thought that the midterms were very much doable. As long as you could do the examples that she did in class yourself, you should be fine for the midterms. But as for the finals, I don't think you will be fine for it no matter how hard you study. I thought that the problems were a lot more difficult. Also the grading on the exam gives a good amount of partial credit.