For the most part the lecture and assignments clarified material, however I found myself being saved in the class due to having prior experience in Calculus. If I hadn't taken Calculus when I did, I would've struggled in the class and would have to rely on outside sources to help me learn.

Absolutely insane midterm. Not a soul got up before the alarm went off and people had genuine breakdowns after class. At some points it is near impossible to understand lecture, and the ridiculously easy workload and practice midterms do not prepare you at all. A second grade scale should not be necessary if passing the first midterm was possible. Just because she failed her first midterm doesn't mean we ALL deserve to. The textbook is more helpful than the lectures, but even then you drown in boring examples and complete bull. Every NSA who is instructed to guide prospective students into this preposterous class is instrumental in the destruction of any student's impression of fake calculus and self-confidence.

I found the lab sections and clicker questions really helpful, however it was easy to get lost or confused in the course if you didn't understand a concept as it was being taught and homework can become busy work quickly if you're trying to catch up on your understanding. Even if she laid out the learning goals, they tended to be very abstract and at times I couldn't correlate how the goals related to the content. Overall, not super bad and work level wasn't overwhelming if you stayed on top of it.

Honestly, she is a pretty good lecturer. It really is just the amount of people who annoyingly talk over her during lecture that take away from her lectures. Yes, she has a speech impediment, no that does not entirely affect how well you will grasp the concepts. Me, personally, realizing now how easy the class really was and how much I lacked in actually putting in effort into the class. There are office hours, problem solving sessions, and practice exams that help a lot. The TAs for this particular class do walk around and help if you need it. Don't fall behind, participation is graded through iclicker points so don't miss class. Sure you're going to feel inclined to not pay attention in class and stuff, I would suggest paying attention though, its seriously a class you can fall behind in real quick. The labs are helpful as well, you will go over concepts from class, and learn basic coding which then progressively get not as easy but definitely not hard. You're basically just learning how to code for things you are learning in class. Put in time for this class because it really is not hard, you just really need to study. Take it from me lol. Professor Shevtsov is from what ive heard nice and helpful in office hours so I'd suggest going to those, I didn't of course, but dude, I definitely should have. Also, if you're in AAP, enroll in PLF sessions, they're super helpful. Oh and homework is LONG so don't wait for the last minute lol

Great introductory class into calculus for life science students. Lectures were engaging and helpful with multiple TAs walking around to ask questions in the middle of class. Coding labs were a fun challenge to supplement my learning and a good way to meet new people in a class so large.

Don't go to lectures. I primarily learned this class through the textbook, labs, and homeworks. Lectures are a waste of time because they go so slowly. The iClicker is worth only 1 or 2% of the grade so it's okay if you skip.

Not as bad as 30A, but literally take any other professor if you want to keep your sanity. I actually have never been so frustrated with a course, we didn't learn midterm material until the literal week of the midterm, and we were behind on final content. the capstone project is poorly managed depending on your TA- but my experience wasn't good, no feedback, no email responses etc. you have a lab weekly, plus the capstone, plus homework and studying towards the end and they are piling too much work on, it became very stressful. in my PLF sessions we were taught from the other professors slides because she was either behind or not teaching something that we actually needed to know.

If you took 30A with a good professor, prepare to be disappointed in 30B. Nobody pays attention in class and everyone is always talking over Jane which makes it impossible to hear her. The only time I actually could pay attention and learn was when class was online when she was sick. She would spend 99% of the lecture going through long computations that finally "come together" in the last 2 mins of class when everyone was already packing up and leaving. The concepts in this class are genuinely ridiculous and something I will never be using in the future. The homework was also absurdly long for no reason and they had a 20 page homework assignment due the week of the final. The labs were awful and so much worse than 30A especially if you don't have an LA that is helpful. The capstone project was a joke and they didn't even care when half of our group never did any work and we told our TA about it countless times. This capstone project genuinely kept me up morning and night stressing from weeks 7-10. And each week you would still have labs due along with the group project work. At the end it was literally just a completion grade so don't stress over it as much as I did. I honestly am unsure how I passed this class because even though I did all of the homework and labs well, the midterm and final were very bad. I am not good at math and didn't study at all for the midterm so that was to be expected. I studied so hard for the final and it was so absurdly long and hard for no reason, they are still barely done grading it hours before the final grade deadline. This series is fake math and I am so glad to be done. DO NOT TAKE LS40. Don't let them suck you back into the lifesci fake math hole again, just take stats 13. Stay safe and get out when you can.

if you have to take the ls 30 series avoid this woman at all costs. take it with pretty much any other professor if you can. the material itself gets pretty convoluted, and it does not help that she will go on yap sessions where there is no clear point to be taken. the homework becomes more and more excessive as the quarter goes on with it feeling like busy work. it is a struggle with the combined amount of homework and difficulty of the test. some of the test questions are on material that was never explained enough. any incoming students, be warned, save yourselves, fight to take it with someone else. i had it with bennoun for 30a and i miss those days so much, he is a way better teacher for this course.

The instructor connected all the topics very well and at the end of the course, I had the big picture of all the concepts we were taught.