Reviews of professor Jean-Michel Maldague

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He takes ages to grade exams. He submitted our grades a week late and put all the students who require their transcript to be sent to their transfer school in a tight pinch. His lectures are not engaging and his exams are nothing like optional homework assigned. His exams are given at a 24 hour window which made it very difficult. Nice guy though.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
There're too many quizzes, heavy lectures, and exams!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Great way to bs your way through considering he just copies his own notes during lecture and calls it teaching. Won't even explain something while teaching, basically just writes down the problem and then the answer with maybe 1-2 steps that don't get explained either. Again, easy to bs your way through but you won't learn anything at all

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class was hard given it was over the summer, but it was rewarding. Best professor for this class. He's very understanding and patient, so if you get behind, he's got your back. Lectures are good, and he's got his lecture notes available so you don't have to take any notes if you don't want to. Only 3 tests, but he gives practice tests.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took Math 7 in Winter 2024 and Professor Maldague was great. He is very thorough with explanations and goes through many examples in class. Graded by three exams, 25% weight each, and 25% weight for homework. Make sure you're able to dedicate enough time to the class if you take it in Winter / Summer as it's quite fast.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Took him Winter 2024. Amazing lectures, he is the textbook, rigorous proofs. Definitely passionate about math. Tests were ridiculously difficult, but curved ridiculously. Honestly saw a lot of very interesting things in his class through proofs and he was always open to helping. 10/10 person, but not the best Calc 1 instructor :)