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I took 100A with Dr. Jaffe (spring 2014) and got an A.

Professor: Dr. Jaffe is a great professor who genuinely wants to help you succeed. He's pretty honest because he outright tells you that Psych 100A is structured badly. Still, he does his best to help you with this shitty class.

He responds promptly to emails and he's incredibly helpful during office hours, where he's willing to explain concepts over and over until you get it. If you're struggling with the class, you should definitely email him and go to his office hours.

Lecture: He's animated and relatively entertaining during lecture. His Powerpoint slides aren't that great, but that's probably because he's taken them from another professor. He should have a go at writing his own Powerpoints.

Class also moves at a lightning pace so a background in statistics - like Stats 10 - is highly recommended if you want to keep up easily. We covered everything taught in a quarter of Stats 10 in 5 or 6 weeks.

Grading: 1 set of homework on every non-midterm week, 3 midterms and 1 final. All of the questions are recycled from the same small question bank of poorly-worded multiple choice questions. No TI calculator or formula book during the midterm and final.

To do well in the class, have a basic understanding of all the concepts. Then, get your hands on as many past papers as you can through the test bank (McAuliffe and Moran tests use the same question bank) and Jaffe's site. Memorise how to do the tricky past paper questions. Memorise how to do the tricky homework questions. Memorise how to do the tricky worded questions from your midterms(for the final). Yeah, pretty much just memorise everything, and you should do fine.

Section: It's helpful for review but you don't really need to attend, especially if you're willing to go to office hours and get more personalised attention instead.

Overall: The class is very do-able, especially if you're willing to sit down, learn the basic concept, and memorise all the questions. Dr. Jaffe is extremely helpful and has lots of good advice but even he admits that it's pretty much down to you and your willingness to "get" the question(through understanding or memorisation, or whatever). You should also do the 1% extra credit assignment he offers because you don't know if you're going to be a borderline case, like me.

Take Dr. Jaffe; he's pretty great. Listen to his advice - especially about the class -, because he's pretty much on point.

I liked Professor Jaffe and feel like he did the best he could with what was overall a super boring, pointless class. One tip: go over practice midterms/homework problems/practice finals at least twice before the test. Almost all problems are recycled from old tests (when we walked into the final he told us it was 80% practice problems) and they're all multiple choice so you can literally just memorize answers and get at least a B. Also, TAs Ben and Kevin were so helpful and concerned, so if you don't understand definitely go to section or office hours.

A very nice and entertaining professor. Sometimes the materials are presented in a really brief and hasty manner. As long as you do all the homework problems AND make sure to practice his old tests, you'll be good for the midterms and finals because he often recycles old test problems!

I just took Psych 100a with Jaffe (Winter 2014) and I thought he was actually very good. I didn't know what to think going in because there were no reviews for him (which is kind of my motivation for doing this). I'm going to try to give everyone the best idea of what 100a with Jaffe is like.

His Lectures: Decent. He's such a nice guy I don't want to call them a waste of time, but every so often he'd have calculations to do and ask someone to actually calculate it which seemed kind of a waste of time. I decided about week 5 that the best use of my time would be to stop going to lecture and read the online textbook. His powerpoints were pretty dry in all honesty. Nothing he said wasn't in the book. He seemed to go right along with it anyways...but nice guy...

Tests: 3 Midterms and a Final. All multiple choice which seemed to make it much easier. He had practice tests online and you can go to the testbank at SAC to get Mcauliffe's past midterms which look exactly alike. Just master all the possible curveballs the online book has, any questions you can get your hands on, and you should be good to go. Never in my life have I got a perfect score on a midterm and I did in this class. You can too! Read the textbook, know everything in the chapters, do the problem solvers, memorize all formulas, try practice multiple choice and you're gold.

I ended up with a A in the class. I thought it was very straight forward, any curveballs on the tests were pretty reasonable. Good guy, I hope he doesn't make the tests any harder in the future. In short, if he is teaching 100a and you need the class, he is your best bet for a good grade.

Professor Jaffe is easily the most approachable professor I have had since starting UCLA. With that said, I wouldn't consider his 100A class to be an easy A, but no math class is. However getting an A is not impossible!
I must warn you, if you're some one who is accustomed to studying solely from slides, this class is not for you. Professor Jaffe only uses slides as an outline for the material covered, and it's your responsibility to go back and learn from the textbook. With that said, I would definitely suggest attending his office hours. He will take all of your questions and answer them with full clarity. Those extra office hours can be what get you that A versus a B in the class.

There are three exams and weekly online quizzes. Each exam is worth 30% of your grade and the quizzes are worth 10% all together. The final exam is not cumulative.

Overall, I would definitely recommend him as a professor!

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I highly recommoned Prof. Jaffe's class if you are planning to take psych 100A. He is charming and funny which make the lecture not boring at all. He also explain the material pretty well, but make sure you are familar with all the formula before the exam.

There are three midterm total (90%) and online quizzes (10%). And the quizzes are due every Friday.

Hope this helps :)

A nice guy but the worst professor I ever had. His lectures had nothing to do with the material and we basically had to teach ourselves everything. Including for the quizzes too. This was my first quarter at UCLA and this class physically and emotionally drained me.

Professor Jaffe is possibly one of the most charismatic and entertaining professors I've had at UCLA. Aside from his charming personality, he was quite unhelpful and his lectures were not very clear/informative. After the first midterm, I stopped attending lectures since I realized I wasn't learning anything during the 3 hours each week. I was still able to pull off a 96% on Midterm 2 and a 98% on the final. All that I did to study for the class was use the online hurlburt program to take notes on each of the lectlets and complete the reviewmaster portion of the application. Overall, this class was pretty easy as long as your willing to put in the work during your own time.