I got a good grade, but wouldn’t recommend the professor. She would be a good mentor and person to know otherwise, but she will mess with your mind as a professor. Expect all of her quizzes to be filled with trick questions. Don’t bother with the textbook problems (I never even looked at them), just study the examples on her slides. Do the tax return project with your peers, because she will pick it apart viciously.

Take this course with a different prof if you can
- the quizzes, final exam and project were all very hard
- she's nice and helpful in class but ignored one of my emails and responded with a passive-aggressive tone to another. maybe she doesn't like talking to students outside of class?
- she gave unclear instructions for the final group project, which was also VERY time-consuming

Berges was a pretty decent professor, but I don't think she would be the best professor to take this class with. Weekly Friday quizzes do keep you on top of the material, but they are not easy and thus require studying that no one wants to do on a Friday. The group project is large and just annoying as you have no guidance on it whatsoever and will get a poor grade no matter up, which I think just gets curved. Final is hard but gets curved.

I liked her, we talked a lot about life and career shiz but she def is hard. Theres a weekly quiz thats hard af, review the online notes and practice the problems and u should be okay. Theirs lots of EC so maek sure to capitilize on it all. Final and project are def really fkin hard, so really put a lot of time for this class. Cool thing tho is that u get cheatsheet on final.

The class is hard and you have to really keep on top of things each week. Each week there was a quiz covering the material taught that week and sometimes it consisted of two lectures. The quizzes are pretty tricky and there is a time limit, but it's not too much of a scramble to get your answers in. The group project was also incredibly time consuming as we blindly navigated a tax software and filed a tax return for an individual who has various expenses and deductions involving situations that we learned in class. The final was not terrible because we had more time and we were allowed some notes to use. The professor's office hours were extremely useful and she is a great mentor, giving advice to students about internships and careers in Tax.

Overall, I recommend attending lecture and taking good notes. I did not use the textbook, but I know the class would have been much easier if I did some of the practice problems she assigned. Working with your group for the project is vital and you will be screwed if you try and solo it.

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Took Berges for 120A and 127A, and really enjoyed both of her classes. Her course readers are imperative for the class, and it is super easy to follow along with the class. She teaches in a way that is easy to understand, and stops to make sure that the class understands it as well. She usually gives hints throughout the classes stating which types of problems will be "big" free response problems on the test, which was very helpful when looking back through my course reader while studying. Her grading is very fair, and I would highly recommend taking her classes.

I liked coming to Berges lectures--she had some engaging stories from her years of experience. Overall, she is a fair grader who prepares you to know what is going to be important to know. Her lectures are helpful but her way of going through examples is quite scattered during lectures and things are labeled well in that if you didn't hear her say it, you have no idea what the label-less numbers on the whiteboard mean. It made it really difficult to have cohesive notes which was bad because she heavily tests her in class examples/examples that are in her course reader. I wasn't able to attend any office hours so I am not sure if that helps clarify those examples but generally if you work hard and practice the examples/homework problems several times, you should do well. Well wishes to you!