Reviews of professor Kevin Novan

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Kevin's lectures were entertaining and informative, just know this class requires reading portions of the textbook and doing problem sets to get a complete understanding of the material (lectures are more conceptual). Tests difficult, but curved generously. Don't rely on having notes with you for exams, questions can't really be done by rote

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
In this class you are only graded by 3 tests which does not lead much room for error. Also, his lectures are just concepts but no good examples on how to do the topics. I highly recommend taking this course with another professor if possible.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I would say that I do not learn a lot in this course. Most of the contents are from ARE100B. Reading quizzes are not easy for me. grade by 25 percent quiz and 75 percent exam(two midterms and a final). Also, it is the first time that Novan teaches this course. He is a caring professor and problem sets are good enough but reading quizzes are hard.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Literally clutched my grade from an F going into the final to a C-. He lets you replace your midterm score/scores with your final. Definitely study every aspect of the problem sets, and if your failing don't give up cause the final can be the difference

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I have a love/hate relationship with this class. On the one hand, the way the professor teaches his slides was amazing. He would often repeat things twice until students got it. However, the fact that you were only graded on 3 midterms and the fact that he never went over the P.S. was unfair in my opinion.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
W Professor

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Easy class if you attend lecture, understand the lecture and the problem sets. Exams are multiple-choice conceptual questions coming from applying the lecture material and problem set/lecture calculation problems. Some materials come from ARE 100b. Novan is the best professor I have taken so far in the ARE department and I only have 3 more b4 grad.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class was mostly self-study for me. I do recommend attending the lectures in person because sometimes the professor writes something on the chalkboard that cannot be seen in the recordings. The P.S. and the exams were quite challenging since he didn't go over how to solve those problems in class. His main focus was on conceptual graphs.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Not really a fan of professor Novan, youre entire grade is based off of tests. I understand he tried to work with you in terms of how the grading works out. But in my experience the tests didnt match up with Homework or practice tests at all. On top of that gives no examples in lecture at all! Just lectures a bunch of concepts with no explanation