Reviews of professor Linda Ternes

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Not the best, but I like her personally and she posts notes templates for her lectures, which I think is helpful. However, her in-class assignments are tough and she graded homework on accuracy for most of the semester. Gives a lot of homework but I think the repetition is necessary to get the material. Doesn't have a lot of office hours.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Prof Ternes is a really nice lady who cares about her students. Although it should be addressed that this class is extremelyyy difficult to pass. She doesn't curve any test, and makes them ridiculously harder than anything previously covered. She grades very harsh and the averages are consistently sub 65%. Do not take.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Although she's harsh, I thought she was a decent Calc 2 professor. Her spot checks are kind of difficult and she grades pretty harshly, but she does explain things pretty well and her office hours are helpful. Definitely not an easy A though so good luck

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ternes isn't a bad person or anything, but the class was a headache. Many concepts would have been difficult with her way of teaching had I not had prior calc experience, and feedback on work was abysmal; A ? isn't going to tell you what you did wrong. I would only take this class if you have prior calc experience like I did.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The lecture notes almost never lined up with the tests and homework. Her exams were long and her form of grading is circling what you got wrong and deducting points. I even attended her pre test office hours and it still didn't help at all. You better have had an amazing pre calc experience in order to at least pass the class. mine was not.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
She's a good teacher, but the tests are pretty hard. Just be sure to come into this class with a strong calc 1 skillset. This includes trig identities, integration techniques, and basic derivative knowledge. If you're struggling in class she offers office hours too and be sure to ask peers in class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Takes points off homework for every little thing but will not explain what you did wrong. Homework is nothing like the 3 examples she does in class and tests are nothing like the homework problems. She also does not review for tests. Do not take this class

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Literally the worst teacher of all time. She's always angry and she only teaches a portion of whats in the homework, leaving people dumfounded while they try to do their insane amount of homework. I go to 4 year and have a challenging degree but ive never had more homework than i did in this class. God bless if you have to take her.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Teaching-wise, I think Ternes is very good at making sure students retain their knowledge with these pop quizzes every class which are very similar to test questions. My only "complaint" is that she is super nitpicky when grading and takes points off for minor things and her test are also much harder compared to other math classes I've taken here.