It honestly doesn't matter if you take her or don't take her. I was in the other lecture with the other professor and this lady decided to do a collaboration. About 80% of the problems came from her and they were grossly excessive, absurdly hard, and stupidly pointless. As nice as I've heard this lady to be, it is just crazy how incompetent she is at teaching. She has the simple minded idea that more problems and more work equates to more learning, but all she ended up doing was exhausting the entire class and pissing off a bunch of people. The typical average of physics exams are usually in the low to mid 70's. When Shaked inserted her problems into Niemann's exam, the plummeted to a 62. The average probably would have been even lower, but the graders quickly realized how stupid the exam was and decided to give full points just for getting close to the answer and the average was still low. NEVER TAKE PHYSICS WHEN SHAKED IS ONE OF THE PROFESSORS. NOT EVEN IF THE OTHER PROFESSOR IS GOOD. There's a good chance that she will screw you over even if you don't take her. Although, you might get a decent grade if you take Shaked's course since she offers a lot of participation grade, this is also a negative in my opinion because a large participation grade suggests that there will be a lot of busy work. My friends said it was hell. Just wait until a quarter comes up where she is not teaching or teaching one of the 6 series that you won't be in. Or wait for summer school. Or maybe if you now the other professor won't collaborate because you know he/she sticks to their own style. I'm not even enrolled in Shaked's course and I am ranting on about her. I'm just really annoyed by this professor. Worst thing that happened to UCLA physics education was when Shaked arrived!