Reviews of professor Calina Copos

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very bad lecturer and has her own idea to teach as a first-timer. Harms students so much. Other professors teach totally differently (very hands-on) and in a totally different pace (slower but more practical). She is theoretical and her lecture falls apart from homework. No helpful resources and no answers posted. Different test from other prof.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you don't already have a calc foundation you will suffer in this course. The homework, quizzes, and tests are more closely related to complex biology questions than to calc 1. She'll give out practice tests that are 10 times easier than the actual midterms. She can be understanding (only sometimes). This will make you hate calc more than ever.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Copos means well, but her Calculus class was unreasonably difficult. She goes from easy lecture material to ridiculously hard homework. The homework is impossible, and she tries to incorporate her own background of biology into the problems, which is totally unnecessary. Don't take her class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Good at explaining concepts. A little dry, but I think very fair.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Her class is more biology based than calc based. Homework and exams are difficult, and she is not clear during her explanations during class. Recitations are usually a weekly quiz, and a worksheet, but TAs don't care if you actually do the worksheet or not. If you have not taken calc before you will struggle in her class. DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS!!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Absolutely atrocious. This is a Biology course, not a Calculus course. She is often quite rude because she always mutters something under her breath, like what is your problem? Her exams are difficult, but she can be lenient (at times). Please do not take this professor as she will make you hate calculus even more than you already do right now.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Recitations are poorly structured with no chance for actual review. Extremely difficult exams and the level of difficulty is not comparable to the level of difficulty we see in class and on practice exams

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very difficult. Biology based calculus. Not appropriate for Calc1