Professor Wink explains the materials clearly. There's hw posted once a week and the workload of the hw is kind of heavy but it helps understand the concepts and practice. The first midterm exam is easy, but the second one is a little hard.

Despite all his lower ratings, I think Professor Wink was great. MATH 135 is a very computational class and his lectures talk about the theory behind the equations more so than examples, which is my biggest complaint about Professor Wink. Even worse, the textbook is not the best and there are very few practice problems (especially when talking about Boundary Conditions and Calculus of Variation). I added this course in the end of week 3 so I had to play catch up. However, if you took 33B from a different institution, you might've already learned a good chunk of this course. The first six weeks are about Laplace Transforms, Existence and Uniqueness and Fourier Series, so if your 33B course already discussed this, then you should be set. His homework was a combination of textbook problems and problems he wrote. Professor and our TA, Ryan Wallace who is the GOAT, practically did the homework with us during discussion and office hours. We had four quizzes throughout the quarter which were essentially basic questions from material covered. They were 30 minutes each but could be done in 10-15. The midterms were fairly easy; the first midterm median was a 92% and the second midterm median was a 88%. However, the final was no joke. The Median was a 77% and was a difficult but fair exam. With that being said, the grading is VERY lenient. Their sole grading scheme was 30% Final, 20% Midterm 1, 20% Midterm 2, 10% Quizzes (Lowest Dropped), 19% HW (Lowest Dropped), 1% Professor Evaluation. Specifically, for the HW category, after the lowest was dropped, and 85% overall in the category constituted an 100% in that category (no extra credit for above 85% raw). The homework was also fairly easy, if you understand the material. At the beginning with Laplace Transforms it can be a bit tedious with annoying partial fraction decompositions and integration by parts but towards the end, it only took maybe 2 hours a week. Each homework was also maybe 5-10 questions which I feel is pretty standard. PROFESSOR DOES CURVE! I have no idea what the curve is, I had a 92.8% overall by the end of the quarter and got an A so there might've been anywhere from a slight curve to a larger one. Overall, the MATH 135 material is fun and engaging and I would definitely take another class with Professor Wink again.