Shin is just the GOAT. Lectures are recorded and his explanations dumb it down to your level. Homework was super easy and quick. Tests were also really light. Take him for every class you can.

Brian Shin is one of the greatest lecturers and professors at UCLA. He is engaging, funny, and overall a must take if you can. His homework is really light, he gives quizzes each week that are easy to answer because the answers are in his notes. The exams are nothing tricky and based off notes and homework, and he will never give you something he did not cover. He also is generous with partial credit. B.Y. SHIN IS THE GOAT.

Great teacher, enjoyed his class. He taught the content very well, was engaging, funny, and honestly just real.

He's just a great teacher. Very good at explaining, tests are fair and accurate reflections of the homework. He is a super nice and approachable person, and he makes the class very straightforward. It was a very moderate level of difficulty, it wasn't super high stress but I still felt like I learned a lot.

TEST IS HARD

tests based off hw, pretty cool guy

Shin is the GOAT. Exams are mostly straightforward and predictable. As long as you can do the lecture problems he does in class you can pull through with a B+/A- on the exams. True/false are a bit tricky and honestly i threw those bc I had other classes to study for. He assigns 2 question take home quizzes every week, but I would just make friends and so each of you can take turns opening the quizzes first each week. He also dropped 2 homeworks and a quiz I think which was cool. Hw & take home quizzes are graded on accuracy. Would take again.

Shin was a great professor for Math 33A! He was clear, understanding, and always helpful. His lectures were based on the textbook but explained much better, so I did not have to read it for this class. The quizzes were pretty easy, too, but the homework was fairly challenging. However, if you can do the homework problems, the exams should be fairly easy, too. Shin's exam grading structure is pretty standard to the 33 series (you can drop one midterm for greater weightage on the final). Doing ALL homework problems (even the optional ones) is how I prepared for the exams. Overall, I thought the first midterm was VERY easy, with the second one being a bit harder (more computationally challenging/time-consuming). The final was fair but not easy. The true/false is somewhat difficult/requires intuition beyond the lecture notes. However, Shin is definitely one of the better (and easier) 33A professors with fair grading and tests so I would recommend taking the class with him.

Dr. Shin is fantastic. He's a very clear, straightforward, and entertaining lecturer. If you're coming from either of the 32 series classes, this class is really easy. I got an A- because I had a really rough quarter, so I barely studied and did not keep up with the work. If I could get an A- barely putting in effort, you'll be fine if you study. This class is very "applications based" in the sense that you're doing work without really understanding what it is you're doing, why it's useful, or why it matters. It's a lot of memorizing how to do problems and just understanding the nuances of how problems change. The homework is the most difficult part of the class. If you can do the homework, you should be fine on exams. The quizzes are reflective of the multiple choice questions on exams, and that's about it. Discussion is optional in the sense that there's no participation grade. I don't think you need to read the textbook, but I found it helpful to go over theorems in a different way. Overall, a great class, although it's very different from the 32 series where you really need to understand the concepts in order to do well.