Reviews of professor Yongcheng Zhou

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Zhou is absolutely brilliant, and a bit of it rubs off. But he's also one of the least coherent lecturers one could imagine. And his lectures are key to understanding any of the material he wants to communicate. Go to office hours, take comprehensive notes, review those with the text, and ask questions.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This professor does not prioritize the success of his students as evidenced by the graduate student assistants in his courses attempting to teach the students the material themselves to make up for his shortcomings

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
We started the semester off with 28 people in my class, we ended with 13. This is because for almost the entire semester our entire class had a D or lower. Our homework assignments, which were worth 40% of our grades, were not graded until the second to last week of school. Rips all content from an incoherent textbook. Very lecture heavy. Quizzes.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
His lectures were worthless, you'll have better luck learning online and from your TA's lab session. Assignments were confusing and even the TA's were unsure of what he wanted leading to inconsistency in grades. Exams were nothing like the practice exams. My TA carried this course for me and was the only reason I was able to do well.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The amount of times this man says make sense? and it most definitely doesnt but he keeps talking anyway. He provided a half a page syllabus, so no one knows whats going on. Homework has been turned in for a week and a half and have gotten no feedback. Didnt respond to emails asking for help. No schedule given. Do not take if you can help it

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Did not actually have his section but did take Differential Equations while he was course coordinator. The best way to prepare for exams is to practiceALOT. Practice exams, review sessions (if your TA has them), homework and suggested homework. Earning a passing grade is definitely an accomplishment for this class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I was excited to take this class since calc 1 was fun, but this professor made this class undoable. We started with almost 30 students and now have 13, this is because the highest grade for the whole semester was a C. He finally graded my homework which is 40% of our grade the weekend before finals week. The textbook was completely useless