This is just my personal experience with this class, I cannot speak for everyone that took this class this quarter. My experience with professor Lancaster was not bad at all. I found the structure of the class pretty easy to follow. I did all the homework for the week the weekend it was due and it did not take that long. I watched all the lectures at 2x speed and took notes on the slides. I had a great TA who went over all the discussion problems step by step. All I did to review for midterms and the final was go over the slides and make a summary sheet and go over the practice problem he gives out the week before the exams. The exams were basically the EXACT same if not slightly easier than the practice problems. However, I did have a quiet place to work through the exams and I live in LA so the time constraint was not as hard on me. I usually work out problems fairly slowly and I was able to finish every exam with a little bit of time to spare. Note: I did not have time to check answers but I took physics in high school and that helped tremendously. I also have reliable internet. Overall what I would say about this class is it is fairly easy IF you do not need accommodations. That, however, is a big IF and I believe under different circumstances I would not have done as well. So I would say take these reviews with a grain of salt and think about your own situation because it is true that professor Lancaster is not very accommodating but this has been one of the easier classes for me that I have taken so far at UCLA.

PS Tung's class got a lot of extra credit and he gave 24 hr exams and a lot of my friends said he was a great teacher.

Let me start off by saying that Lancaster is an extremely genuine and caring professor. It's evident that he cares deeply about the success of his students, and tries to engage with everyone both before lecture and at office hours. I personally didn't find lectures helpful or necessary (he talks VERY slowly) so I didn't go to most of them; discussion sections were sufficient for me. He basically reads off the Pearson slides in lecture (which themselves give way too much info) so it's easier to just take notes on your own time on what you actually need to know since everything is posted to CCLE. There were no posted practice exam problems for either of the two midterms, but he does go over some in lecture and did post a few for the final which was very helpful. Exams themselves were pretty straightforward given that you studied for them.