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After reviewing all the comments on her 33A, I'm so shocked, I admit sometime she go through the concepts fast but that's not the excuse for not doing well in the class, and saying she is not a good professor, I mean you can always go to her office hour to ask questions if you don't understand the material, I went to her office hour almost every week, because 115A is a really hard class for me, I usually have some homework questions that I can't solve it myself, and she always really really helps! So I don't understand why the students from 33A have such bad impression on her, in my opinion, she is a great professor who cares students. The weekly quiz is homework problem, so if you do the homework, you are able to do the quiz, and her exams are fair, she gives us review before the exam, so if you don't receive a good grade, blame yourself. Finally, quoting from a previous review :"For those who attacks her Chinese accent, I have two words for you: 垃圾"
Look, her English may not be the best, but after reading the 33A reviews, it seems to me that they just seemed to dismiss her help immediately. Professor Huang is an extremely helpful person in office hours, and our TAs are also great resources. I was at times frustrated, but she certainly did put an effort in improving her lecturing. For the reviews of her on 33A: If you ridicule her for her thicker Chinese accent, chances are you are just trying to find excuses as to why you cannot grasp simple concepts in linear algebra. Grow up and have some empathy. In my Math 115A class, if we asked questions relevant to the material, it'd often clear up her explanations, as well as our own understanding of concepts. Don't dismiss Professor Huang just yet, as she has become a much clearer lecturer and is a very, very, very fair professor.
Do not be scared by other nasty negative reviews because they are old and Prof. Huang has improved at lot. She posts all her notes online every week, which is pretty great for review and catchup. She gives about 15 questions per week for homeweek, which is very managable. Tests are not challenging at all, and are straight from the homework and examples from class notes. The final is slightly more difficult than the midterm though (only one midterm for this class). Not the best math class you can take but I will definitely recommend.
I can understand why some peers are angry in math 33A. As a second year I can tell you that math 33a can be cumbersome at times. Still, I believe Dr. Huang did her best in math 115a. One thing I find a lot of people miss is attending office hours. She actually shows you how to write proofs and helps you remember potential mistakes. Finals is very fair, but if you want an A go beyond the homework from week 1 and do pretty much all problems there and you should be good. Don’t be like me doing these problems in the last two weeks because it is exhausting.
I don't know why people in her 33A class kept complaining since 33A is all about computations, which is much easier than 115A. It’s true that she is not a good lecturer since it is the first year for her. She does not explain all the concepts and proves very well in class. Sometimes her homework requires us to do something that is not taught in class.
Everyone is complaining here, but I will say you can never expect your teacher to teach you and make you understand everything in class. You have to put your effort into it, try to figure out the things you do not understand instead of complaining that your teacher didn’t tell you. If you did not get good grades simply because you did not work hard enough, then stop complaining.
Finally, someone also attacks her Chinese accent. For those people, I have two words for you: 垃圾。
This whole quarter has just involved me desperately searching for youtube tutorials for basically every topic we have covered and camping out at the SMC; thank God our TA has his shit together and is helpful. I don't go to lecture anymore because it's basically just powerpoint slides of theorems and her reading them out loud. Maybe two slides with examples mixed in.
General class details: weekly hw assignments with ~10-15 problems each but varies, weekly quizzes that are SUPPOSED to be covering the hw due that week but sometimes aren't, two midterms and a final. While others have noted the midterm wasn't bad, if you aren't doing well in the class (which isn't unreasonable considering her powerpoint teaching style) and mess up on a few things your score went down a lot for minimal mistakes.
Edit: I returned to class after not having gone for a while, and I have to say she improved over the quarter. She switched from pure powerpoints to working out problems on the whiteboard which was important, and she gave out a lot of hints for the final exam which I appreciated. I would change my warning to not take the class, into a caution to just be prepared to do a lot of self-studying and get a good TA.
This is a warning: do NOT take this class with this professor. Bad at teaching, bad at communicating, and not helpful at all. I usually try to make the best out of all of my professors, but with her, it's not even possible. Don't even bother taking this class with her; any other professor would be a safer bet. Hands down the worst professor I have had at UCLA so far.
She basically does not speak English. Her words are so broken that she might as well be speaking Chinese. Her weekly homework quizzes are not based on the homework and are not easy whatsoever. She does not have a grasp on how to make a class fair as she only says whats on the weekly quizzes one day before the first discussion sections quiz. She basically gives half the class two extra days to study for the quiz. Going to lecture is completely useless. I will say her midterms weren't that bad and were fair if you had a grasp of the information. I wouldn't recommend this professor if you can avoid it, but I heard the other professors are worse so I don't know.
Really hate this class. Thickest Chinese accent I've ever heard, used to use slides that were basically copied from the textbook (until the projector broke down, now she writes tiny and it's hell to try to see), doesn't explain anything that well. Stopped going to lectures, I stay around once in a while and regret instantly.
The workload is rough, although I've heard that's pretty consistent with 33A in general. She drops 3 hw and grades 2 problems on each. Some of the problems are basically impossible, so if you value your time/mental health just skip them and hope she doesn't grade them. (It worked for me, although that's sheer luck.)
Also got screwed on her quizzes since she flat-out lies/is incredibly wrong about telling us what sections are tested, but you get to drop 3 quizzes so not too bad.
Basically, screw this class, but tbh I don't think any of the other options are better, so good luck.
After reviewing all the comments on her 33A, I'm so shocked, I admit sometime she go through the concepts fast but that's not the excuse for not doing well in the class, and saying she is not a good professor, I mean you can always go to her office hour to ask questions if you don't understand the material, I went to her office hour almost every week, because 115A is a really hard class for me, I usually have some homework questions that I can't solve it myself, and she always really really helps! So I don't understand why the students from 33A have such bad impression on her, in my opinion, she is a great professor who cares students. The weekly quiz is homework problem, so if you do the homework, you are able to do the quiz, and her exams are fair, she gives us review before the exam, so if you don't receive a good grade, blame yourself. Finally, quoting from a previous review :"For those who attacks her Chinese accent, I have two words for you: 垃圾"
Look, her English may not be the best, but after reading the 33A reviews, it seems to me that they just seemed to dismiss her help immediately. Professor Huang is an extremely helpful person in office hours, and our TAs are also great resources. I was at times frustrated, but she certainly did put an effort in improving her lecturing. For the reviews of her on 33A: If you ridicule her for her thicker Chinese accent, chances are you are just trying to find excuses as to why you cannot grasp simple concepts in linear algebra. Grow up and have some empathy. In my Math 115A class, if we asked questions relevant to the material, it'd often clear up her explanations, as well as our own understanding of concepts. Don't dismiss Professor Huang just yet, as she has become a much clearer lecturer and is a very, very, very fair professor.
Do not be scared by other nasty negative reviews because they are old and Prof. Huang has improved at lot. She posts all her notes online every week, which is pretty great for review and catchup. She gives about 15 questions per week for homeweek, which is very managable. Tests are not challenging at all, and are straight from the homework and examples from class notes. The final is slightly more difficult than the midterm though (only one midterm for this class). Not the best math class you can take but I will definitely recommend.
I can understand why some peers are angry in math 33A. As a second year I can tell you that math 33a can be cumbersome at times. Still, I believe Dr. Huang did her best in math 115a. One thing I find a lot of people miss is attending office hours. She actually shows you how to write proofs and helps you remember potential mistakes. Finals is very fair, but if you want an A go beyond the homework from week 1 and do pretty much all problems there and you should be good. Don’t be like me doing these problems in the last two weeks because it is exhausting.
I don't know why people in her 33A class kept complaining since 33A is all about computations, which is much easier than 115A. It’s true that she is not a good lecturer since it is the first year for her. She does not explain all the concepts and proves very well in class. Sometimes her homework requires us to do something that is not taught in class.
Everyone is complaining here, but I will say you can never expect your teacher to teach you and make you understand everything in class. You have to put your effort into it, try to figure out the things you do not understand instead of complaining that your teacher didn’t tell you. If you did not get good grades simply because you did not work hard enough, then stop complaining.
Finally, someone also attacks her Chinese accent. For those people, I have two words for you: 垃圾。
This whole quarter has just involved me desperately searching for youtube tutorials for basically every topic we have covered and camping out at the SMC; thank God our TA has his shit together and is helpful. I don't go to lecture anymore because it's basically just powerpoint slides of theorems and her reading them out loud. Maybe two slides with examples mixed in.
General class details: weekly hw assignments with ~10-15 problems each but varies, weekly quizzes that are SUPPOSED to be covering the hw due that week but sometimes aren't, two midterms and a final. While others have noted the midterm wasn't bad, if you aren't doing well in the class (which isn't unreasonable considering her powerpoint teaching style) and mess up on a few things your score went down a lot for minimal mistakes.
Edit: I returned to class after not having gone for a while, and I have to say she improved over the quarter. She switched from pure powerpoints to working out problems on the whiteboard which was important, and she gave out a lot of hints for the final exam which I appreciated. I would change my warning to not take the class, into a caution to just be prepared to do a lot of self-studying and get a good TA.
This is a warning: do NOT take this class with this professor. Bad at teaching, bad at communicating, and not helpful at all. I usually try to make the best out of all of my professors, but with her, it's not even possible. Don't even bother taking this class with her; any other professor would be a safer bet. Hands down the worst professor I have had at UCLA so far.
She basically does not speak English. Her words are so broken that she might as well be speaking Chinese. Her weekly homework quizzes are not based on the homework and are not easy whatsoever. She does not have a grasp on how to make a class fair as she only says whats on the weekly quizzes one day before the first discussion sections quiz. She basically gives half the class two extra days to study for the quiz. Going to lecture is completely useless. I will say her midterms weren't that bad and were fair if you had a grasp of the information. I wouldn't recommend this professor if you can avoid it, but I heard the other professors are worse so I don't know.
Really hate this class. Thickest Chinese accent I've ever heard, used to use slides that were basically copied from the textbook (until the projector broke down, now she writes tiny and it's hell to try to see), doesn't explain anything that well. Stopped going to lectures, I stay around once in a while and regret instantly.
The workload is rough, although I've heard that's pretty consistent with 33A in general. She drops 3 hw and grades 2 problems on each. Some of the problems are basically impossible, so if you value your time/mental health just skip them and hope she doesn't grade them. (It worked for me, although that's sheer luck.)
Also got screwed on her quizzes since she flat-out lies/is incredibly wrong about telling us what sections are tested, but you get to drop 3 quizzes so not too bad.
Basically, screw this class, but tbh I don't think any of the other options are better, so good luck.