Gufong Wei - University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Professor: Gufong Wei

Department: Mathematics

College: University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: MATH8
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Her accent isn't significant, she's very easy to understand if you're paying attention. She explains the proof methods clearly and I learned a lot in her class. Tests were the same difficulty and topics as the homework, which is turned in weekly and graded for correctness. The required written homework helped me really learn all the topics.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: 108AB
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Wei is an excellent professor. Her lectures teach students important theorems from the book and proofs her gives are clear and easy to understand. Although attendance is not mandatory, one should not miss her lectures. Final is largely based on homework and not hard at all for students who carefully finish their homework with their own effort.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: MATH108A
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Wei is one of the better upperdiv professors. Her class is tough but she is very willing to help students and listens to feedback -- she won't just brush you off if you're struggling. There's 4 pop quizzes each quarter, and she assigns quite a bit of homework but in the end you'll definitely learn the material. Her tests are tough but reasonable.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: MATH4B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

While her lectures are straightforward once you get past her accent and the tests are fairly okay, I'll never forgive her for curving the class DOWN at the end of finals because the average was higher than she wanted.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: MATH4B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Absolutely could not get past her accent. Iclicker was graded for correctness, which is very stupid. So was hw, and you only got limited attempts on it. So both were more like quizzes. Bright spot is that exams are fairly straightforward and if you study the slides and the hw you should be well prepared for them. Would not take her again though.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: MATH4B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Wei is a professor who you can tell cares about the success of her class. I truly appreciated her lectures being available on Gauchospace, which is something I have rarely had in Math at UCSB. She does a fine job teaching the class and the midterms and final were fair and to her prior hints. If you try hard you will do fine.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: MATH4B
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Wei is an excellent professor and really puts in a good attempt to get the lecture material across. Her accent is noticeable, but if you can get pass her accent, she conveys the material pretty well. Her exams are pretty straight forward and based off of the homework. The final exam was harder than the midterms. Overall, pretty good.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: MATH4B
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Wei would be one of the best Math teacher at UCSB if it weren't for her accent. Every lecture contains a lot of information so skipping one class becomes a big mistake. Homework will be hard but doable if you look at your notes (and if you take good ones). Tests are exactly like the homework so if you know how to do the hw you'll be fine.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: MATH4B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Hard hw. Weird tests. Such a heavy accent and no curve.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: MATH4B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Wei gives very unclear lectures and struggles to explain WHY for any given concept. She assigns homework that is way harder than what she has taught in class, and there are limited tries so we cannot experiment. There is no curve and all she told us about the midterm was number of questions and generic topics. Class has a daunting feel.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: MATH8
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Her lectures were pretty clear and concise. She gave a lot of hw, but that should be expected for math 8 if you want to do well. I highly recommend reading the book along with the lectures!

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: MATH8
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Math 8 is a hard class regardless of who the professor is. Professor Wei did have good lectures and was really helpful in office hours. But our weekly homework assignments were graded ridiculously hard. Expect no more than a C average on the homework. She also taught us a new topic during the final. Go to office hours for help.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: MATH4B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

A horrible teacher. She has no enthusiasm in teaching and with students. A hard class because of lack of clarity.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: MATH4B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Accent is way too hard to understand. Book is very unclear, and the homework site was very tedious yet unhelpful. Tests are manageable, but it is easy to mess up. No curve. Avoid at all costs.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: MATH4B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Terrible professor. PowerPoint text lectures, difficult and time consuming webwork, and even more difficult tests. No curve at the end of quarter.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: MATH4B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Horrible teacher

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: MATH4B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Smart lady, awful teacher. That summarizes it. Incomprehensible lectures, difficult tests she doesn't prepare you for, and homework that doesn't help you on the test (and the lecture doesn't help you with the homework).

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: MATH147A
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

one of the nicest and most helpful profs you will ever have. terrific during OH. class was tough, but she helped everyone on the final. dont worry about the accent.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: MATH117
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Hard to understand. Crazy hard tests. The best grade on the midterm was a 40 out of 100. So the professor made it out of 50. Homework is not too bad.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: MATH3B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Lectures were completely pointless to go to, felt like she was reading off a textbook. But her class was not too shabby, just go to CLAS, do the homework assignments, show up for section to take pop quizzes, and memorize the practice midterms and you should be able to pull off at least a B.