Professor
Atsushi Nakano
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Spring 2016 - Honestly, he is one of the worst professor I had in UCLA. I have 3Bs in UCLA. This was the last quarter before summer session and I took 4 classes. But this class was very last class and I knew how to study for science courses and I didn't really worry about this course on the first place. My thought towards this class was wrong. Regardless how much effort you put into this class, you can't really prepare for the exam. His previous exams do not help at all. You can't really prepare for his exam because he doesn't explain anything deep. Also, he brings new type of question that you were never exposed to. As a result, you can't really prepare in terms of exam question. Studying lecture material is just good enough to answer first simple multiple choices regarding lectures. Also, his poor exam system separates A and B students. Since most questions were multiple choice and there were problems meant to get wrong, students had to choose the answer without any educational guess and people who were lucky got A. I got A or A- for all mcdb classes. Maybe, he wasn't right professor for me.
Spring 2016 - Honestly, he is one of the worst professor I had in UCLA. I have 3Bs in UCLA. This was the last quarter before summer session and I took 4 classes. But this class was very last class and I knew how to study for science courses and I didn't really worry about this course on the first place. My thought towards this class was wrong. Regardless how much effort you put into this class, you can't really prepare for the exam. His previous exams do not help at all. You can't really prepare for his exam because he doesn't explain anything deep. Also, he brings new type of question that you were never exposed to. As a result, you can't really prepare in terms of exam question. Studying lecture material is just good enough to answer first simple multiple choices regarding lectures. Also, his poor exam system separates A and B students. Since most questions were multiple choice and there were problems meant to get wrong, students had to choose the answer without any educational guess and people who were lucky got A. I got A or A- for all mcdb classes. Maybe, he wasn't right professor for me.
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Winter 2023 - Be prepared for this class. Genuinely your TA is your best friend in this class as well as making friends and studying together. Professor Nagano unfortunately did not help much in this course and at the end of the quarter unfairly curved only the A- students and nobody else. The lectures were just cahoot quizzes, His online lectures you were assumed to watch them and learn from them? like multiple 45-1 hour online lectured weekly in which you cant understand him half the time even when using the transcribing tool. The quizzes aren't too bad but the material tested on for the midterms and final exam many times contained material that was never directly taught from the course and was supposed to be second hand knowledge from what you "deduced" from the material from the lecture videos. To be honest overall from this course I wouldn't want to take professor Nakano again but if you do, befriend your TA and make sure to bug them and the professor about material you might not understand. Also exams contain many mistakes purposely and are meant to confuse students.
Winter 2023 - Be prepared for this class. Genuinely your TA is your best friend in this class as well as making friends and studying together. Professor Nagano unfortunately did not help much in this course and at the end of the quarter unfairly curved only the A- students and nobody else. The lectures were just cahoot quizzes, His online lectures you were assumed to watch them and learn from them? like multiple 45-1 hour online lectured weekly in which you cant understand him half the time even when using the transcribing tool. The quizzes aren't too bad but the material tested on for the midterms and final exam many times contained material that was never directly taught from the course and was supposed to be second hand knowledge from what you "deduced" from the material from the lecture videos. To be honest overall from this course I wouldn't want to take professor Nakano again but if you do, befriend your TA and make sure to bug them and the professor about material you might not understand. Also exams contain many mistakes purposely and are meant to confuse students.
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He's a nice and caring professor. He's exams are relatively difficult but he was lenient on grading and he grades on a curve! 50% of the class got B- or above. You will have a quiz for every discussion section on a paper that was assigned a week before. Also you'll be required to do a group presentation on one of the assigned readings. Overall, he's a great professor and highly recommended
He's a nice and caring professor. He's exams are relatively difficult but he was lenient on grading and he grades on a curve! 50% of the class got B- or above. You will have a quiz for every discussion section on a paper that was assigned a week before. Also you'll be required to do a group presentation on one of the assigned readings. Overall, he's a great professor and highly recommended
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