Reviews of professor Jinniao Qiu

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Extremely difficult to understand, most of the students in his lecture this semester dont bother showing up.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Does not explain material in a way that is understandable if you have never taken calculus before (which most people for this class haven't). I found lectures useless, he is hard to understand and can't understand what you're asking if you have a question! so frustrating. would've failed if not for my great classmates.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I took MATH383 with him in F2020 and MATH583 in W2023. Dr. Qiu killed it in both. MATH583 is a dense course, so sometimes I couldn't keep up in class; however, he'd post all of his step-by-step notes and endure my endless questions during office hours. The final was way harder than the assignments (5 worth 70%) and far too long, but only worth 30%.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
His accent does make him harder to understand, but it is no fault of his own. He always takes problems step by step and will repeat the problem as many times as necessary for you to understand. All in all, he tries his best!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
His lectures consisted of him writing notes too fast for anything to make sense. I had to spend a long time deciphering his notes to learn anything. If you manage to understand what's going on, you'll realize he has a really strange, roundabout way of teaching where he does mathematical proofs for no reason, rather than simply explaining concepts.