extremely harsh grader, considers any materials outside of the confusing textbook and his dense lectures to be cheating. Assigns problems that one would expect to see in a graduate level course and gives little partial credit. Exams include topics we have never covered in class. I would rather take an extra quarter than take one of his courses

There's a reason no one came to his office hours. It shows how much this professor cares about his students; to be able to send an email in an attempt to discourage us for not coming to office hours that won't be worth a students time due the professors lack of character and professionalism during a mentally stressful time for students. Listen UCSB

My entire understanding of discrete math is thanks to the TA hard carrying us. Not a single person attended office hours (an email was sent out literally saying this), and the lectures were incredibly long and difficult to follow. Curved slightly at the end (after nobody got credit on a problem on the final), but the stress was NOT worth it.

His weekly lectures are almost four times longer than other professors, homework are literally impossible to get full credits on, and tests are graded so hard he would take off your points because you didn't write the word "if" pretty enough. On one problem in the final, nobody in the class received any credits, and he doesn't curve. Don't take him

Just don't take his class. I hate myself and math

My experience in fall with this professor was the worst in my academic career. As a math major, I was always motivated to work and learn. But after taking his course, I can say that this professors teaching is literal dogwater. Neglects students and their personal problems during the pandemic. If tenure was a thing for him, Id pay him to depart.

I cant agree more with other comments. I got A but would still suggest you avoid his classes to make life easier.

If you get Mr. Avetisyan for Math119A, just drop! He never curves even though the average is very low. There are six problems in the final and the last three are EXTREMELY HARD! He also gives very mean comments and sarcasm on gradescope, which make you lose confidence in math. Ive never met a professor as mean as him.

I have taken his 6B and 117. All his exams are difficult. When I was in the 6B, he only gave us the PDF instead of videos. He recorded videos while teaching 117. Although his average score on the exam was very low, he said he would not curve. There is a lot of sarcasin his email. This is a very mean behavior for students. Don't choose his class!

Worst professor ever, will never curve the class even after he said that the midterm average is really low. He includes so many sarcasm in his email and is very mean to his own students. Avoid him at any cost, do not ever take his classes.

He is literally so bad. Can you believe he includes so many sarcasm to students in gradescope feedback and emails? He enjoys including weird and never-taught problems in the exams, and even our Ph.D. TA had no idea how to do the extra credit one for midterm. Even worse, he never curves, even if his average is the lowest one in all math classes.

This guy is VERY tough! Rating him a 2 is not because he doesn't care, he just is not the best at explaining, which was crucial in this theoretical math class. His grading is extremely harsh and picky, and lectures did not include many examples. Grade is homework, midterm, and final. EC is offered which is nice. Nice guy, but stay away.