it was okay could be better to be honest.

- A LOT of WebWork homework. (2~3 per week) - Extra HW Credit if you complete 3 days in advance (basically self study) - Lecture: 3/5. Slides: 4/5. As the others said, he likes to teach "different approaches" to problems. I love it and this is the exact reason I chose his class in the first place, but you might not.

Lectures are hard to follow. He talks about his preferred way to approach problems which are actually useful sometimes even if they seem like they won't be. His tests are super easy.

Overcomplicates concepts because he finds the different version of solving something "cool." You can get extra credit on every HW if you turn it in early, aka before he teaches it. So, you have to teach yourself/cheat to get that EC. Tests are fair, but you won't learn what you need from class. Use CLAS if you have him.

Terrible lecture, no idea what he was talking about. He seemed to be teaching only the few people in front of him. Self-study is required.

He seriously cared a lot, and was genuinely happy that we did well. I've never seen a professor put in so much effort into his notes, albeit kinda messy. He did not lecture from the textbook, or use it at all tbh. Was willing to cover topics that were supposed to be but weren't taught in 4A. Lots of extra credit w/ homework, midterms were fair.

Don't take this professor. you will need to teach yourself all of the material. Jit claims he spends 7 hours on notes but notes have mistake in every lecture. He doesn't post the completed solutions to the notes online so you have to go to lecture but you wont learn anything. Exams arent too crazy but I taught the entire course material to myself.

I think I did well in this class simply because I already had a pretty good foundation of calc prior to taking this class, not necessarily because of his teaching. Lectures were sometimes confusing and students often had to correct him on several problems.

You could replace him with a bar of soap and learn more. Sign up for CLAS before signing up for him as a professor. You'll get away more from the tutors than the Pillsbury dough boy who runs that classroom. This is the 3rd time I am posting my comment after this dude requested to remove people's honest reviews twice, no shame!

Wow. Worst teacher i've ever had. A very nice man I'm sure, but utterly and wholly incompetent. I had him for 34a and 34b, and just wait to take this class with another professor. Simply not worth it at all. Lectures are completely useless and hard to follow, couldn't even do his own problems in class. He's so disorganized and just.. don't.

He seems like he genuinely cares about his students. However, he's a pretty bad teacher and it seems like he doesn't really know what he's talking about. He makes a lot of mistakes during his lectures and honestly I'm more confused after attending his lectures. Take him as a professor only if you're good at self-studying.

If you ask me what I've learned for the past 7 weeks from this man literally nothing comes to mind. I review all his lecture slides and materials and still don't understand how I'm learning anything. he worst part is that although he doesn't make sense the TA Christine Alar is also unhelpful as well. He also rarely posts answers to his study guides

Lecture is a complete waste of time. Prof rarely does example problems with the class which is unfortunate considering how many he assigns. Spends most of lecture reading off slides he's forgotten. Material+tests are pretty simple and all it takes is a competent CLAS tutor to do well Easily the most useless prof/lecture I've had here (4th yr)

I'm sure he's a great person but this man cannot teach. My friend and I decided to teach ourselves the material instead of actually going to lecture. We've noticed we can get more done and actually understand it that way. 0/10 would not recommend. If you have the choice choose Peter Garfield as your math34b professor.

Seems like a lovely person who wants his students to succeed but he does not know how to teach. We went over his quiz question and even he was doing it wrong

Nathan is a very nice and caring Professor but should not be a teacher. Although he does want his students to do well, he is not a strong/clear lecturer. I ended up having to teach most of the material to myself. Exams include abstract concepts/rules that he expects you to know just because he knows them.

Schley is a great person. He's kind, nice, and really wants his students to succeed. However, he is not a good teacher. He is horrible at lecturing. He tests his students on topics that he never really taught before. Most of the time, I would have to teach myself all the topics.

One of the worst professors I've ever had. He covers basic topics during lectures and then tests us on extremely abstract, conceptual concepts that we never learned. No practice midterms, pretty much need to teach all of the the material to yourself in order to do well. Would not recommend!

Absolute worst professor ever, lectures are completely useless, nothing on the homework is covered by lectures, no practice tests for exams, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS

Hands down the worst professor Ive ever had. Super nice guy but an awful teacher. He explains nothing and assumes you know everything.

He's nice but that's about it. Not good at explaining things and is VERY conceptual, so if that's not ur way of understanding things I would avoid this prof. Oftentimes he will subtly go over new material in lecture and expect us to catch on without clearly indicating new rules or equations. No practice midterm before this first midterm too. Ugh

Schley is more concerned with teaching himself how to code than actually teaching you. The only knowledge comes from (rushed) lectures, which are primarily his rambling rather than teaching you any material. When there is information, it's somehow wrong. Think you can learn in office hours? Only about his personal side projects. Not recommended.

lecture notes are copied from online, not that helpful since he basically just explains in very abstract ways the "mathematical intuition" but doesn't really go over concrete examples. prepare to self study/ask ta. gives out extra credit for doing hw early (before he goes over the concept in lecture) so just self study, midterm has stuff not taught

Professor Schley is genuinely the worst professor I have ever had at UCSB. He would not tell us what was on the midterm and he told us three days before that we needed to know 3 more chapters and his practice test was so hard so I dropped the class.