The lectures the professor gives are very good. I never read the textbook and just went off my notes from lecture and did great. She likes to have math heavy lecture and test problems so try to understand the very basic of multivariate integrals and differential equations before so you can follow along. Knowing how to derive the equations helps a ton because you understand more about what they mean and how to apply them to different problems. 10% of the grade comes from participation in discussions so make sure you show up and complete the worksheet. The midterms are fairly hard, but she weights the midterm you did best 28% and worst 22% for you overall grade which is nice. The final was very easy and only 34% of the overall grade. The final 6% of the grade comes from homework quizzes 10 minutes every week and are very easy. The averages on test are low but she curves the test and the classes scaling. The curving is very unfair. She gives a large curve the worst a person's raw score was. So if you did very well you got no curve but people with 13% (the low score) got a C or C+. This made it very hard to get an A because if you did poor on just one test you were strewed, but very easy to get between an A- and B because of the nice curve for people on the lower end of the bell curve. Overall class was a hassle cause unclear grading scheme and many of the quizzes and test were not grade until the last minute.

The professor clearly cares about her students. She is an extremely effective lecturer, despite (or because) she is a new professor. Her office hours are extremely good too-probably the best I've gone to.

Homework is optional, with practice problems that are short (about 15/week) & cakewalks to complete. However, I'd say that the practice problems were far too easy; they didn't have anywhere near enough calculus or hard problems. The book is useful for explaining conceptual stuff, and even better, you can pirate it easily, with online pdfs literally everywhere. Unfortunately, her reviews for midterms are hit and miss, but more miss than hit. Do them, but often times, you're still screwed for the tests.

The tests, however, are hard AF, but they are curved very generously. She does redos where you can get points back. On my first midterm, my 88% got curved to a 95%, which later got increased to a 98 % after a redo. On my second midterm, my 37 % got curved to a 71%. The tests are definitely not easy. She also says she uses a flat scale, but she really doesn't. In my class, an A- was set to an 86%, after she curved exams.

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