I definitely have mixed feelings about Professor Suzuki. He was overall a very nice and chill professor and I never really felt pressured in terms of workload, but his lectures and notes were a bit messy and unclear at times, which ends up being a huge downside in a conceptual class such as 33A.

His homework wasn't that difficult with a good mix of conceptual and computational questions.
His quizzes were a bit more difficult with both conceptual and computational questions with the conceptual questions feeling a bit unfair because most of them were not taught in class.

He has a VERY generous grading policy though, where he drops the lowest 2 homeworks and quizzes, and considering the fact there are only 7 homeworks and quizzes, you really only need to do well on 5 of them.

His tests are where the class gets notably difficult. He grades the tests out of 20 points, so even one mistake can destroy your grade on them. The first two midterms both had a fairly difficult conceptual question on them, and considering that the test was only out of 20 points, it felt a bit unfair if you couldn't answer the conceptual question, as it would gut your grade.

He responded well to the feedback on the exams, and the final ended up being pretty much purely computational.

Overall, I didn't personally like Professor Suzuki, but I think he responded very well to feedback, and I believe it was his first quarter teaching. He definitely has great potential as a lecturer, so it's entirely possible that when you choose to take this class or any class with Suzuki, he will have found his stride in teaching.

Going into 32A, I was a little worried because math has been a class that I tend to struggle with and I had heard that 32A was one of the harder math classes for underclass students. However, I was pleasantly surprised by how I did in this class. The lectures are recorded and put up on ccle with his notes so I usually would watch them later in the day. I was able to follow the material (sometimes it would take me looking at my notes for a while but it did not slow me down weekly) and did well on the tests and quizzes. There are 5 categories for this class: homework , quizzes , midterm 1, midterm 2, and the final (10%, 20%, 20%, 20%, 30% respectively).

Homework: Homework was assigned weekly and you were given a week (sometimes more if something came up) to complete it. He dropped your two lowest homework scores so if you are busy one week, you have some leeway. The homeworks were not too hard if you went through the lectures and you could either do it all at once or do little by little throughout the week.

Quizzes: There was a quiz every week except midterm weeks. The quizzes tested on what we had learned the previous week and were very similar to the practice problems we did during lectures so they were not too stressful. Again, two lowest quiz scores were dropped so if you had a bad week, you again have some leeway.

Midterms: Compared to 31B where the midterms took me between 8-10+ hours, these midterms were a lot shorter and much easier in my opinion. I actually scored pretty high on both which was surprising to me. If you are able to do the homework and quizzes then you can totally do the midterms with little difficulty.

Final: The final was about the same difficulty as the midterms and I was able to score pretty high on it too. It went over mostly material after midterm 2 but still hit some topics from before. It had some true or false (that's the part that is hardest for me but still nothing compared to the 31B final and midterm) and the rest was computational.

Professor Suzuki is amazing! I enjoyed this class a lot more than I thought I would and he is very knowledgeable! Sometimes he could be confusing in his lectures with how he explains something but usually it would get cleared up in the lecture since the students would ask him about it. You can also email him (he responds pretty quickly) or go to his office hours for questions. He was so good that I actually did not go to any discussion sections because I felt like I was well prepared just from the lectures. My TA recorded his discussions and put his notes on CCLE just in case you were worried about that.

I would highly recommend Suzuki for 32A!!