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Julie Gardner-Treloar
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Winter 2021 - This is one of the most incredible teachers I have ever had the privilege to learn from at UCLA. Her lectures are succinct and interesting. I would 100% recommend anyone to take this class because it will teach you so many valuable things about finance. Prof Gardner was kind and I found that when it came to reasonable requests, she happily granted them. By FAR the best teacher I have had at UCLA and she teaches the information incredibly well.
Winter 2021 - This is one of the most incredible teachers I have ever had the privilege to learn from at UCLA. Her lectures are succinct and interesting. I would 100% recommend anyone to take this class because it will teach you so many valuable things about finance. Prof Gardner was kind and I found that when it came to reasonable requests, she happily granted them. By FAR the best teacher I have had at UCLA and she teaches the information incredibly well.
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Winter 2023 - I REALLY DO NOT RECOMMEND TAKING THIS CLASS. SHE IS ONE OF THE WORST PROFESSORS. The professor goes off topic most of the time, and her lectures do not help with the test, which is notoriously difficult. Instead of giving study materials, like past exams, she expects the students to search for CPA questions online, and this makes students who do not yet have CPA study resources hard to study. She also never gives feedback to the assignments and mostly just makes jokes.
Winter 2023 - I REALLY DO NOT RECOMMEND TAKING THIS CLASS. SHE IS ONE OF THE WORST PROFESSORS. The professor goes off topic most of the time, and her lectures do not help with the test, which is notoriously difficult. Instead of giving study materials, like past exams, she expects the students to search for CPA questions online, and this makes students who do not yet have CPA study resources hard to study. She also never gives feedback to the assignments and mostly just makes jokes.
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Winter 2020 - This class is not very difficult for an introductory tax course since the course reader ($82) basically covers the entire material reflected in the exams. The textbook is helpful if anything during lecture was unclear, but the homework isn’t really reflective of the exams so I’d do it as a last resort. With that said, the concepts alone may not be very difficult to memorize, but they can get pretty complicated when they’re intertwined into one question, especially when there are phase outs involved. Do not expect practice exams. She will simply give you a single sheet of paper to show you the format of the exam. The assignments which each consist of 5% of your grade (20% for 4 assignments total) are also not helpful for the exams, but solidify the concepts discussed during any previous lectures. Make sure you do them correctly though because she will take points off for any little thing!! Read the instructions correctly and try looking the solution up online if you’re unsure of your answer. I found that the solutions online are outdated given the tax law changes but are similar enough to make sure you’re on the right track. The final was WAY harder than the midterm..Due to the present circumstances, we had to do the final remotely online which was fine because we had multiple choice questions on the midterm anyway. Anyways, the final was on CCLE and she made it so we couldn’t go back and revise any of our answers which was EXTREMELY frustrating because I would remember halfways through the exam how to answer a question that I guessed on, but obviously couldn’t go back..Oh and she didnt even bother to mention how many questions were on the final so how the heck were we suppose to pace ourselves??? I wasn’t sure if I was going too slow or if I had time! Hopefully she changes this policy for those taking her next quarter also online. To put it into perspective, I was one of the 13 people who got between As and Bs prior to the final and failed the final <50%. Gardner is funny and an amazing lecturer, but don’t take her exams for granted.
Winter 2020 - This class is not very difficult for an introductory tax course since the course reader ($82) basically covers the entire material reflected in the exams. The textbook is helpful if anything during lecture was unclear, but the homework isn’t really reflective of the exams so I’d do it as a last resort. With that said, the concepts alone may not be very difficult to memorize, but they can get pretty complicated when they’re intertwined into one question, especially when there are phase outs involved. Do not expect practice exams. She will simply give you a single sheet of paper to show you the format of the exam. The assignments which each consist of 5% of your grade (20% for 4 assignments total) are also not helpful for the exams, but solidify the concepts discussed during any previous lectures. Make sure you do them correctly though because she will take points off for any little thing!! Read the instructions correctly and try looking the solution up online if you’re unsure of your answer. I found that the solutions online are outdated given the tax law changes but are similar enough to make sure you’re on the right track. The final was WAY harder than the midterm..Due to the present circumstances, we had to do the final remotely online which was fine because we had multiple choice questions on the midterm anyway. Anyways, the final was on CCLE and she made it so we couldn’t go back and revise any of our answers which was EXTREMELY frustrating because I would remember halfways through the exam how to answer a question that I guessed on, but obviously couldn’t go back..Oh and she didnt even bother to mention how many questions were on the final so how the heck were we suppose to pace ourselves??? I wasn’t sure if I was going too slow or if I had time! Hopefully she changes this policy for those taking her next quarter also online. To put it into perspective, I was one of the 13 people who got between As and Bs prior to the final and failed the final <50%. Gardner is funny and an amazing lecturer, but don’t take her exams for granted.
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