Guofang Wei

37 reviews
Test heavy Tough grader Graded by few things Lots of homework Lecture heavy Skip class? You won't pass. Amazing lectures Caring Clear grading criteria Gives good feedback So many papers
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Math147A . 28 Days Ago

Wei is very passionate about differential geometry. Although she is old-school and handwrites her notes instead of using slides, her lectures are extremely well structured, with a clear progression from definitions to propositions to theorems. She really knows the content and summarize the textbook well. Overall, she is an excellent professor.

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MATH4B . 2 Months Ago

totally bad

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MATH4B . 9 Months Ago

Prof isn't that bad at all, idk why other reviews are so harsh. Use TA sections and go to lectures because lectures have useful information and proofs (if you have a strong grasp on algebra and basic calc). During lectures, she was very open to pausing lecture to answer questions and working through questions on a board was helpful. Not bad at all.

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MATH4B . 9 Months Ago

Honestly not that bad of a professor. The class felt fair, but the lectures were kinda mid. Tests were also very similar to the practice material and had clear expectations, the only difficult parts were solving integrals to be honest (still not that bad).

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MATH4B . 9 Months Ago

Honestly not bad, the reviews are a little harsh. Had her for Math 4B as a computer engineering major. and her exams were pretty reasonable as compared to the homework (which is actually great practice). Her lectures don't move "fast," per se, but they expect you to have a strong grasp on Calc I and II as well as general algebra.

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MATH4B . 10 Months Ago

Professor Wei moves very fast during lectures, addressing many topics per day with little explanation or elaboration for understanding. Though she is a very passionate teacher, it is difficult to learn during her lectures, so be sure to make good use of TAs. I also found the campus CLAS resources to be a life saver for this course-highly recommend!

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MATH4B . 10 Months Ago

Bad lecturer, tough to learn anything from her. The new content was pretty easy to learn from the TA in section but she would always put a weird integral on the tests that wasn't on any homework or covered in class killing your score.

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MATH4B . 10 Months Ago

Class was okay. Lectures were enough to learn material. Exams seemed to be weighted too heavily and the grading scale was curved down to reduce the number of As. In principle I have no problem with this but the department gives out ~50% As in Math 4B and she only gives out ~20%, which seems unfair. Overall not bad.

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MATH4A . 10 Months Ago

Pretty easy tests, okay lectures.

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MATH4B . 10 Months Ago

don't ever take this professor

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MATH4B . 10 Months Ago

The homework is terrible so get ready to look up a lot of things. Exams aren't terrible but the homework is rough half the time

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MATH4B . 1 Year, 10 Months Ago

Wei's grading approach can seem vague and harsh, but exams were given lots of leeway in terms of partial credit. She gave lots of info on upcoming exams. Lectures are good, if you are willing to put effort into following along. The worst thing about this class is webwork, which is convoluted and frustrating compared to problems from the textbook.

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