Reviews of professor Calvin Hotchkiss

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He often messes up his own examples during lectures. He doesn't really explain concepts super well. He is in office hours and is always available for help. The tests are really hard but they are graded generously.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
During lectures, he speeds through notes faster than the students can copy them. He doesnt explain, he just does the problems and narrates it. Very fast paced. Homeworks are more time consuming than they seem. Quizzes arent that bad. EXAMS are much harder than what we cover in class. Go to the discussion, its your only chance of understanding.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Really difficult class, especially if you didn't take calc in hs. He doesn't really teach, he just makes you watch him do problems, and it's up to the student to figure out how to do it. The three exams and five quizzes make up most of your grade, but he drops one quiz at the end of the semester. His voice is also very hard to listen to.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Taken online during covid. Typical calc based math class. Online hws every week. HW, quizzes and exams all on webassign. Hotchkiss goes over theory before lecture and then examples during. Often makes mistakes while doing examples. Learn concepts more while doing hw. Exams were not not too bad if you keep up with the class

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
one of the hardest classes I have ever taken. DO NOT TAKE HIM. I went to office hours, did all of my homework, AND went to extra help &even paid for a personal tutor and still got a D in the class. Now I have to retake it again. His voice is very hard to listen too. He rushes through examples and skips them to catch up to other sections.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Do anything possible to get the other professors. He doesn't explain how to do problems rather he just writes down the next steps after a student tells him what the next step is. The lectures are not helpful, go to the discussions because that's where you'll learn the most.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dropped this class and taking it community college over the summer because it was so bad. Hotchkiss cannot teach at all, my TA was better than him.