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Lara Kassab
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The prof sucks. I liked the class material, but the prof made me not like it. She never responds to any emails. She only teaches the minimum, barely any examples or anything close to the tests. She refused to give us practice exams, telling us to just see the book. The TA carried the class, he was great. The prof was very bad. The math department sucks in consistency of quality of professors as well as grading. I think she said she wouldnt curve, even though the average on the midterm and final was C- (71~72%).
She purposely isnt allowing regrade requests for the final for some reason, her grading sucks (since I've found multiple mistakes).
If bruinwalk would allow me to have helpfulness and clarity as 0, I'd give 0
Math 135 itself is ought to be a straightforward class. Kassab made it unnecessary obscure. Midterm is relatively fair but the final is hard. No practice exams or review sessions for the tests. Would not recommend.
Genuinely awful class. Just made me miserable and felt like a complete waste of my time. Horrible, unclear lectures delivered with a really depressing tone. The content of the class sucked too -- lacked cohesiveness or direction. Would have really, really benefited from a final project or ANY kind of application. Absolutely no preparation or direction for exams. She wouldn't even tell us how many questions were on it. It's not even that it's super hard -- it's just that you're given no motivation or direction to apply yourself, or any direction on where to spend your time studying. At least a tough class like 131a has a strong foundation and reason for being difficult. This one is just ridiculous. Horrible, don't take Kassab unless you have absolutely no choice. Awful.
We needed to use practice tests from other classes because she refused to give practice problems. She wouldn't even give us solutions to the HWs and tests. She made it very difficult to learn the material. Even though a class might be hard, professors will try to help accommodate students to help them learn, but it felt like she didn't want to help us out.
The prof sucks. I liked the class material, but the prof made me not like it. She never responds to any emails. She only teaches the minimum, barely any examples or anything close to the tests. She refused to give us practice exams, telling us to just see the book. The TA carried the class, he was great. The prof was very bad. The math department sucks in consistency of quality of professors as well as grading. I think she said she wouldnt curve, even though the average on the midterm and final was C- (71~72%).
She purposely isnt allowing regrade requests for the final for some reason, her grading sucks (since I've found multiple mistakes).
If bruinwalk would allow me to have helpfulness and clarity as 0, I'd give 0
Math 135 itself is ought to be a straightforward class. Kassab made it unnecessary obscure. Midterm is relatively fair but the final is hard. No practice exams or review sessions for the tests. Would not recommend.
Genuinely awful class. Just made me miserable and felt like a complete waste of my time. Horrible, unclear lectures delivered with a really depressing tone. The content of the class sucked too -- lacked cohesiveness or direction. Would have really, really benefited from a final project or ANY kind of application. Absolutely no preparation or direction for exams. She wouldn't even tell us how many questions were on it. It's not even that it's super hard -- it's just that you're given no motivation or direction to apply yourself, or any direction on where to spend your time studying. At least a tough class like 131a has a strong foundation and reason for being difficult. This one is just ridiculous. Horrible, don't take Kassab unless you have absolutely no choice. Awful.
We needed to use practice tests from other classes because she refused to give practice problems. She wouldn't even give us solutions to the HWs and tests. She made it very difficult to learn the material. Even though a class might be hard, professors will try to help accommodate students to help them learn, but it felt like she didn't want to help us out.