Xiaodan Leng - Pasadena City College

Professor: Xiaodan Leng

Department: Mathematics

College: Pasadena City College

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: MATH005A
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

If you care about your mental health, do not take this class. She gives tons of pointless homework & you learn nothing. Her homework is extremely difficult. Her tests are also unfair. The tests are even more difficult than the homework. Additionally, she DOES NOT and WILL NOT listen to her students. I have never had a professor as terrible as her.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: MATH008
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Worse class I have ever taken. She is not organized at all. She thinks math is easy to learn and does not spend time answering questions. Focuses on herself more than the students?? Probably thinks her experience dictates how everyone's experience is like. I would not recommend this class to anyone who actually wants a professor that teaches. 0/10

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: MATH008
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Horrible professor. Makes you write out the lecture's material like an English class and gives you lots of busy work that you won't learn from. Rarely understand what you're asking and often go off tangent. Plus, she abandons Precalc in a Trigecalc class. My engineering friend is a better teacher than her, let that sink in.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: MATH008
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Her lectures are not the best. Homework does not help at all. Her english isnt the best, but thats ok. What is not ok is to think that everyone learns the same way; she expects students to do things her way and her way only. The homework is not very helpful; it has nothing related to what we did in class, it is much harder. Take someone else, pls.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: MATH003
• Grade Received: WD
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS! If you care about your mental health and your grades, do yourself a favor and take literally anyone else. I've never been so stressed out nor have I ever had such a low grade EVER. She makes you write papers and it hits you so hard if you don't do them. I learned more calculus than algebra. Good luck if you have to take her.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: MATH003
• 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:

She assigned us a quiz that would supposedly take 4 minutes for her other students to do. We all didnt finish it until around 8-10 minutes. She shouldnt bring her expectations of other students from other class levels of math to lower or higher math classes.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: MATH5A
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Don't take her class. you must write many useless paper and learn nothing.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: MATH008
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I took Dr. Xiaodan Leng´s class for MATH003 and MATH008. She is an inspiring professor that helps students understand mathematical concepts as well as their application. Her classes are well organized and provide you with a strong foundation in math. I was well prepared for MATH05A after taking Dr. Leng´s classes.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: MATH009
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Don't take her. She gives tons of pointless essays every day. The exam is not that hard but she doesn't give enough time to finish. You must give an explanation following every answer you write. She seems to google a textbook and gives it to us and that book is bad.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: MATH003
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This professor give us lot of useless essay and you need to do one more pages essay no double space. And useless project, if you did wrong she doesn't give you second chance to redo this. The hw, quiz, and test are online, but the quiz is very stupid. You need to learn calculus before taking this class.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: MATH005A
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Class was very confusing and she makes things harder than it needs to be. Better know your calculus if you want to take this class, lots of essay-writing and online tests almost every other week. If you are willing to endure all the homework , the class was an easy A if you do your work and write all the essay.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: MATH008
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

This was one of the worst classes I have ever taken. Luckily I had taken Trigonometry before because this class would have been almost impossible if I hadn't. Say goodbye to your weekends because she assigns hours of work and makes you write out every step of your homework. I was barely able to get a B because of how terrible her teaching is.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: MATH003
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She was ok. Shes not the most approachable but the test and main homework were online. She gives useless projects and written assignments as well as weekly written homework but as long as you do them half heartily youll be fine. The test and online homework are the biggest part of the grade.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: MATH8
• 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:

Mind as well KYS. She dictates how you write notes and wants you to forget what you learn before and do it her way. She doesn't understand that people learn differently. Anything is better.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: 5A
• Grade Received: INC
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Stay away from this professor if you do not have any prior knowledge on calculus, her class is homework heavy and the essays do not make sense in a math class. Her teaching method is no concise and way too inefficient as compared to the traditional method of teaching. Do not take her class unless you have no choice. She uses her own notes too.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: MATH003
• Grade Received: C+
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

EC is STEM Career Events. MyMathLab is used$120. Beside the online she has her own written HW/Quizzes due at the start of class. Her lectures go into deep understanding Math03 & I loved that! Tests are worth the most points and HW. 3 Projects. Attendance not mandatory. Final is only in class test. Logarithms for Final. I fell behind and paid for it

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: MATH003
• Grade Received: WD
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This professor is just aweful. If you struggle with math please do not take her. I had to withdraw from her class if not I would have definitely failed by the way she was teaching. She is also very unclear on the assignments and gives lots of homework.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: MATH003
• Grade Received: WD
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

She was simply awful. This was quite frankly the worst class I've ever had at PCC. She wanted us to write essays explaining the classwork which she could not explain properly. The website is annoying to use. If you missed one assignment online then you couldn't continue to the next assignment and had to ask her to unlock.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: MATH008
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

This teacher explains math terribly which will leave you clueless all the time. Everyday you have to do classwork where you have to write a page long essay based on what you learned(nothing). The tests bring you down hard af. She also gives tons of homework which will take up your weekend. I took pre cal before and im still confused with her.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: MATH131
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Leng tries too hard to be unorthodox with her style of teaching. She abandons everything that you have learned in the past and expects you to do everything her way. However she does put in effort to teach you and if you really tried, you could get an A