Professor
Behzad Razavi
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This guy rocks. If you ever have the opportunity to take him, do it. I took Professor Abidi for 10 the previous year and that was a huge mistake, hence why I retook it with Razavi this year. He was head over heels better than Abidi. The exams were brutal, but they make you think. Razavi doesn't just make you memorize formulas, he encourages you to use intuition and think before you apply the math. And this is how engineering needs to be in every class here. In the end you feel so much more accomplished, since you can actually understand circuits, rather than just the answer to 2 + 2. As far as the grading goes, I'm pretty sure he is a godsend. 7 homework assignments total 20% of the grade, whereas the midterm and final make up 40% each. However, if you do better on the final, you will get 45% towards your final and 35% for the midterm. I scored probably 20-25% below the average on the midterm because the only thing I couldn't do was Thevenin/Norton. Turns out that was the entire exam. I definitely got an average of C's/B's on the homeworks, and thought I did well on the final, but maybe not enough to get a good grade. Only to check MyUCLA and see I ended up with a C+, when I was all but sure I'd get a D. Or with Abidi, probably an F----- (ya, 5 minuses) on his grading scale. Razavi only gave a handful of D's and C-'s. Most of my friends who were doing poor as well got C+'s due to improvement. Overall he is an understanding guy and grades on improvement it seems. Word on the street is that the EE department asked Razavi to teach EE 10 this quarter since upperdiv students have not been learning the fundamentals in lower div circuits classes. To the department and to Professor Razavi, I just say thank you.
This guy rocks. If you ever have the opportunity to take him, do it. I took Professor Abidi for 10 the previous year and that was a huge mistake, hence why I retook it with Razavi this year. He was head over heels better than Abidi. The exams were brutal, but they make you think. Razavi doesn't just make you memorize formulas, he encourages you to use intuition and think before you apply the math. And this is how engineering needs to be in every class here. In the end you feel so much more accomplished, since you can actually understand circuits, rather than just the answer to 2 + 2. As far as the grading goes, I'm pretty sure he is a godsend. 7 homework assignments total 20% of the grade, whereas the midterm and final make up 40% each. However, if you do better on the final, you will get 45% towards your final and 35% for the midterm. I scored probably 20-25% below the average on the midterm because the only thing I couldn't do was Thevenin/Norton. Turns out that was the entire exam. I definitely got an average of C's/B's on the homeworks, and thought I did well on the final, but maybe not enough to get a good grade. Only to check MyUCLA and see I ended up with a C+, when I was all but sure I'd get a D. Or with Abidi, probably an F----- (ya, 5 minuses) on his grading scale. Razavi only gave a handful of D's and C-'s. Most of my friends who were doing poor as well got C+'s due to improvement. Overall he is an understanding guy and grades on improvement it seems. Word on the street is that the EE department asked Razavi to teach EE 10 this quarter since upperdiv students have not been learning the fundamentals in lower div circuits classes. To the department and to Professor Razavi, I just say thank you.
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Fall 2021 - I had heard a lot of negative things about this class (I put off taking it for as long as I could). After reading other reviews here once I'd finally enrolled, my nerves were definitely not abated due to comments about how the class was when Razavi taught it online. However, for in-person, I thought that his teaching was very clear and that his exams were fair. Discussion worksheets helped to solidify concepts and clarify cases that weren't elaborated upon in lecture. I actually ended up kinda liking the material, which really came as a shock to me. Razavi gives tips on how to succeed in the class on the syllabus - follow them, he's taught the class many times and knows what works (I followed them mostly except for one or two weeks of the quarter - guess what concepts I missed on the midterm). He'd drop a joke here and there, but it took a few seconds for everyone to realize he'd just said something funny. Anyway, if you're taking this class, it's probably because you have to, so you might as well take it with Razavi.
Fall 2021 - I had heard a lot of negative things about this class (I put off taking it for as long as I could). After reading other reviews here once I'd finally enrolled, my nerves were definitely not abated due to comments about how the class was when Razavi taught it online. However, for in-person, I thought that his teaching was very clear and that his exams were fair. Discussion worksheets helped to solidify concepts and clarify cases that weren't elaborated upon in lecture. I actually ended up kinda liking the material, which really came as a shock to me. Razavi gives tips on how to succeed in the class on the syllabus - follow them, he's taught the class many times and knows what works (I followed them mostly except for one or two weeks of the quarter - guess what concepts I missed on the midterm). He'd drop a joke here and there, but it took a few seconds for everyone to realize he'd just said something funny. Anyway, if you're taking this class, it's probably because you have to, so you might as well take it with Razavi.
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