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Tova Brown

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Easiness 3.5 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Workload 3.6 / 5 How light the workload is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Clarity 2.7 / 5 How clear the professor is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Helpfulness 4.2 / 5 How helpful the professor is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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Jan. 28, 2015
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Grade: N/A

Professor is really nice, she answers every question people have in the lecture even ifit takes 30 minutes to go through a problem (which many people may already know). Lectures are short so you might actually have to read the textbook for more comprehensive understanding.

Midterm consists of 8 problems, 5 points each. Final has 12 problems. For both midterm and final she added one or two specific problems that you probably won't get by reading the book but were went through in the lecture. Generally the exams are a little harder comparing to the materials she covers in lectures.

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March 24, 2015
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Grade: N/A

This one probably the most dysfunctional class I have ever taken. No one paid attention and random students were calling out in class, disrupting class, and acting like idiots for most of the lectures.

Every single day the entire class would just talk to their friends and she just kept right on teaching. Whenever she tried to get everyone to pay attention they would just ignore her.

If you want an easy A then go ahead and take her. At the beginning of the class she said, "If you guys all deserve an A then I will give you all an A and I will just deal with the department myself." Then she made the average on her tests like 80%+ so we all ended up "deserving it". She was a very easy professor.

If you want to learn the material then maybe don't. She has a great graphical insight to the math she is teaching but can't get her point across if no one is listening anyway.

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Aug. 3, 2015
Quarter: N/A
Grade: N/A

Overall, nice and approachable professor.

The exams were fair; I would say they were more based on the lectures than the textbook. If your grade on the final is better than your grade according to her scale, she'll make your grade 90% final and 10% homework. (As opposed to 25% each midterm, 10% homework, and 40% final).

In lecture she really emphasizes on visuals (she draws lots of pictures of planes and vectors and such). This emphasis tends to translate to the exams.

Homeworks are straight-forward, straight from the textbook.

Overall nice professor, one of the better ones I've had for a lower division math class.

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Nov. 17, 2016
Quarter: Fall 2014
Grade: A-

Very nice and helpful professor. Not the best in lecturing but do the homework and ask your TA (or her office hour - she's very nice and will try her very best to make sure you understand). That being said, her office hour often gets crowded, so if you want to have your question solved quickly, go to your TA. Since you will most likely be a freshman and this will most likely be your first class at UCLA, you CAN go to other TA sections to ask for doubts. It will take some resourcefulness on your part to figure which TA gives the best explanation or the most helpful, but it will be worth it.

Her class has two grading schemes. I do not remember the first one, but if you do better in your final than your midterms your final counts as 100% of your grade, so messing up in your midterms do not necessarily translate to a messed up grade. HER CURVE IS VERY GENEROUS, albeit it does not offer many in-depth explanations about calculus.

She often goes slightly overtime, so make sure you keep that in mind when you try to have your classes stacked on top of one another.

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June 20, 2017
Quarter: Winter 2015
Grade: A

Professor Brown was a very nice and caring professor. Her tests were very straightforward and based off the textbook. She took a more geometric approach to teaching linear algebra, which I thought was pretty cool. Overall, I would recommend taking her.

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MATH 31BH
Quarter: N/A
Grade: N/A
Jan. 28, 2015

Professor is really nice, she answers every question people have in the lecture even ifit takes 30 minutes to go through a problem (which many people may already know). Lectures are short so you might actually have to read the textbook for more comprehensive understanding.

Midterm consists of 8 problems, 5 points each. Final has 12 problems. For both midterm and final she added one or two specific problems that you probably won't get by reading the book but were went through in the lecture. Generally the exams are a little harder comparing to the materials she covers in lectures.

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MATH 33A
Quarter: N/A
Grade: N/A
March 24, 2015

This one probably the most dysfunctional class I have ever taken. No one paid attention and random students were calling out in class, disrupting class, and acting like idiots for most of the lectures.

Every single day the entire class would just talk to their friends and she just kept right on teaching. Whenever she tried to get everyone to pay attention they would just ignore her.

If you want an easy A then go ahead and take her. At the beginning of the class she said, "If you guys all deserve an A then I will give you all an A and I will just deal with the department myself." Then she made the average on her tests like 80%+ so we all ended up "deserving it". She was a very easy professor.

If you want to learn the material then maybe don't. She has a great graphical insight to the math she is teaching but can't get her point across if no one is listening anyway.

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MATH 33A
Quarter: N/A
Grade: N/A
Aug. 3, 2015

Overall, nice and approachable professor.

The exams were fair; I would say they were more based on the lectures than the textbook. If your grade on the final is better than your grade according to her scale, she'll make your grade 90% final and 10% homework. (As opposed to 25% each midterm, 10% homework, and 40% final).

In lecture she really emphasizes on visuals (she draws lots of pictures of planes and vectors and such). This emphasis tends to translate to the exams.

Homeworks are straight-forward, straight from the textbook.

Overall nice professor, one of the better ones I've had for a lower division math class.

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MATH 31B
Quarter: Fall 2014
Grade: A-
Nov. 17, 2016

Very nice and helpful professor. Not the best in lecturing but do the homework and ask your TA (or her office hour - she's very nice and will try her very best to make sure you understand). That being said, her office hour often gets crowded, so if you want to have your question solved quickly, go to your TA. Since you will most likely be a freshman and this will most likely be your first class at UCLA, you CAN go to other TA sections to ask for doubts. It will take some resourcefulness on your part to figure which TA gives the best explanation or the most helpful, but it will be worth it.

Her class has two grading schemes. I do not remember the first one, but if you do better in your final than your midterms your final counts as 100% of your grade, so messing up in your midterms do not necessarily translate to a messed up grade. HER CURVE IS VERY GENEROUS, albeit it does not offer many in-depth explanations about calculus.

She often goes slightly overtime, so make sure you keep that in mind when you try to have your classes stacked on top of one another.

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MATH 33A
Quarter: Winter 2015
Grade: A
June 20, 2017

Professor Brown was a very nice and caring professor. Her tests were very straightforward and based off the textbook. She took a more geometric approach to teaching linear algebra, which I thought was pretty cool. Overall, I would recommend taking her.

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