I am writing this review only because I think this page does injustice to Prof. Abidi's EE 10 section.
Most people seem to agree that he is a fantastic lecturer, but they bury this under reels of complaint about how terrible his tests are. Fact is, they just aren't that bad.
Maybe his upper-div tests are draconian (I don't know), but for 10 they are absolutely fair.

You should definitely take him for 10 if you can. In fact, unless it puts you back by too much, I'd recommend waiting to take 10 with him.

So basically this guy is a total badass, and won't ever fail at making that known. He's a complete douche, but a way that makes you laugh then feel uneasy cuz this means you're not getting an A.

At the beggining of the quarter he said there would be only 4 A's. At this time the class was around 120. After two weeks the size dropped to 80. The TA's warned us that the guy fails (C- and below) half his class almost regardless. Abidi says the class is not curved, but you're gonna pass no matter what if you're in the top 50%.

So I got slightly above the average on the midterm (51/120) and probably about the same on the final (33/100) and got a C+. Not happy with it, but I guess I should be thankful I didn't fail.

On the bright side though, the guy's lectures and really sweet and you'll learn a lot in the class, especially doing the homeworks. Too bad you won't be rewarded for it in your grade.

太虎了，我直接虚了，讲的确实好，但是你20年一个A我表示老湿我吃不消，不好意思我在你考试前APOM了一把

I took EE10 with professor Abidi last quarter. After studying for more than 8 hours a day for a little less than a week, I ended up getting a D+ in the class. Here is a comprehensive but non-exhaustive list of things I could of done during that week instead of studying and still end up with the same grade in the class:
1. Watch the entire Lord of the Rings Extended Edition trilogy once a day for a week (including director's commentary)
2. Party with north campus majors who were done with finals or didn't need to study for them
3. Mastrubate probably around 12 times a day, which comes out to maybe 3 times the daily engineer average
4. Write a script and submit it to a Hollywood production company
5. Level up my character in World of Warcraft
6. Catch up on sleep
7. Create my own blog
8. Plan out what quarter would be best for me to retake EE10
9. Go on a weeklong, intense workout problem and end up slightly buffer than before

To be fair, I tried to cram an unpractical ammount of information in one week. That works for alot of professors here, but not Abidi. Basically, the dude's one of the most brilliant lecturers you'll ever find, but he's got about as much regard for you're GPA as most people do for household cockroaches, and unless you're some strange, sick cockroach lover, it's probably not much. If you're someone who doesn't care much for GPA and wants to learn more in a quarter than you ever expected to learn, then by all means sign up for this beast. But if you just want to brush by with minimal effort and only attain an average grasp of the material (ahhhem like me), Professor Abidi will mercilessly strike down upon you with great vengeance.

Keep in mind that I took EE10 with this guy, which is considerably easier than his analog circuit classes.

I learned more in 1 quarter with him than I may have during my first two years at UCLA. His lectures are eye-opening, his homeworks thorough and enlightening, and his tests relatively computation-free with clean numbers, though they do require some innovation on your part and a CLEAR understanding of the material.

In most standard EE10 courses, normal professors go over node/mesh analysis, resistive networks, op-amps, and very little to no RLC,RL,RC (reactive elements). This wasn't enough for Abidi. He blazed through the material, teaching us resistive circuits, node/mesh analysis, RL, RC, RLC circuits, transient responses, phasors, complex power, transformers, mutual inductances, sinusoidal steady state.... He taught us so much in such a short time, and for that I thank him. We learned so much that not only did we cover everything in EE10, we essentially covered up to 7 weeks worth of material in EE110, which is amazing.

I don't know why everyone was complaining about how condescending he was in previous quarters, because in our class he was very polite and always willing to answer questions until the student understood. Plus he was kind of funny every once in a while.

I don't doubt that the grades he's given out in past quarters gives him a bad reputation, and it might cause you to shy away from taking his class. I promise you however that if you are willing to put in the time and the effort, not only will you walk away with an A, you'll have walked away with so much knowledge it'll be LEAKING out of your ass. Even if you don't exactly get the grade you want and only attain an average level mastery of the stuff he teaches you, you'll be able to walk into other circuit classes and start kicking ass because you've been exposed to just to much material. I would recommend him to anyone, because we're all in college to learn, and everyone knows that there's no one better to learn circuits (or anything EE related for that matter) from than Abidi.

I took his EE10, and that was the biggest joke. My final paper was lost, so I didn't get any grade for this class. Moreover, he does not contact me in any way regarding the lost final paper.