I would not recommend taking his class. If you have to, you will be okay. Professor V on youtube uses the same textbook and will teach you everything you need to know. The TAs for our class gave tons of partial credit. Do as many practice problems as possible before the exams. You'll be stressed and you'll have to grind but you will be okay.

avoid taking him if possible. professor Akemann sucks at lecturing and you never really know what to expect on his exams. you're better off self-studying if you want to pass with a decent grade. i got the grade i got partially because of personal circumstances but had this professor been better, I'm sure I would have gotten a better grade.

did not learn a thing from lecture: unclear handwriting, incomprehensible, goes off-topic, lowkey problematic jokes, final covered like 40% of the course (and the median was pretty low). however, he had a super lenient grading criteria + rounded up grades so i guess it balanced things out to some extent

He mentioned wolf gram alpha every lecture, I was surprised he wasn't sponsored by them. You're gonna have to self teach yourself the curriculum (organic chem tutor will be a better professor than him). His grading system, in general + on tests, was pretty forgiving though, which is maybe the only compliment I can give him.

the GOAT of math 3b

Started off the quarter with a slow, not very good professor; By week 4, we had a new professor, Akemann, who honestly seems like a nice guy who does know a lot of material under the dept of math and is trying; however, he is unorganized and his lectures were not helpful (practically had to teach myself the material) BEWARE.

Horrible experience. Do not consider taking him. Does not teach well and is never clear about what topics will be on the midterms. Worst experience in a math class ive ever had. UCSB staff, if you ever come across this, do better because you are making countless students stuffer in math.

taking this class felt like one of those pranks where people cut your earbuds and then give you airpods except i never got my airpods and my earbuds got cut every day. he is so old he took a class from oppenheimer before inventing the atomic bomb (actual story he told us) everything he told us would not be on the final took up 15/20 questions.

Lectures are unhelpful. He gets side tracked very easily and does not explain problems well. He does not communicate well with the TAs, so the content on the tests and what we should be learning is always unclear. He does not give study guides for tests and gives hundreds of textbook pages to go over instead. DO NOT TAKE.

Not a good professor, terrible lectures, content of the exam is unclear, HW not like exams.

Oh my god this is the worst professor I have ever had I actually cannot believe he has actual credentials. He is so old he can't do anything & makes his students learn outdated calculus concepts that the TA's could barely help with. He makes jokes about ICE and is so unbearable bro he genuinely does not know how to speak or teach get him to retire.

Maybe the worst teacher of all time wasn't the teacher we had at the start of the year, due to health concerns. He doesn't make any sense in lectures and talks about random things. Told us to study every example from the textbook instead of a study guide. Might be evil.