Reviews of professor Benson Au

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
To be fair, the professor is fine. The course itself is hard because it requires 9 chapters to be taught within a quarter. If you do not read the textbook often, you may easily get lost in each lecture. In addition, no need to blame the T/F questions and just accept it... Exams seem to be provided by a unified team instead of the professor.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
As we are taking online course, he use podcast by other professor instead of teaching by himself, which I think is quite irresponsible. Also, he send out too much assignment. Also, the policy for final is strange, especially for the oral test. In the oral test, he kept asking strange questions even I did not cheat.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Had an A the entire quarter for Math10A. Just general calc right, do the work and participate and youll do fine. Professor Benson throws a curve ball of a final and puts material that was not even in lecture. If you take him and there are As in the class BEWARE!!!!!! HE WILL THROW A CURVE BALL AND RUIN YOUR GPA!!! STRAY AWAY!!!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Class works well in an online format; lectures are asynchronous & do not exceed class time. He expects you to read but most carry through w/o Au is a very solid choice for calculus. He sometimes skims over how he got a given answer so If you're someone entirely new to the subject then it can be a bit harder to learn quickly. Overall good professor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is one of the best. The lecture pace is quick, but he is accessible and encouraging outside of class. I brought hw questions to his OH and he was always happy to answer. In his class students need to challenge themselves to really learn and his class is not an A for lazy students. I am taking another math class with him :)

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Extremely clear in lecture, although you should sit near the front because he talks soft sometimes. Always writes out his entire thought process on the board so it's very easy to follow what's going on. DO NOT TAKE IF you are slow, his lectures move quick and if you're gonna complain about him going too fast you are not suitable.