This is my second quarter with Prof Hsu- I took 31A with her last quarter. She's a fantastic lecturer and professor, and I honestly enjoyed taking these classes even though I wasn't the best at math in high school. She's super fair in terms of content on the midterms: the first one had a lower average at around 60ish (most people had issues with timing instead of actual content), while the second had an average around the mid-70s (less questions after we gave her feedback) if I remember correctly. She 'curved' by adding a 12 point extra credit problem to the final using M1 content. Be warned: we had a take-home final this quarter due to the virus and campus shutdown, but her finals are much harder in terms of content and application compared to the midterms.

A few things: she added a quiz section to this quarter: there's four in total, with the lowest grade dropped. It's two questions, done in discussion, that are pulled from the previous week's homework, which you don't have to turn in. Lowest homework is dropped as well. She offers two different grading schemes that allow you to use the max of your two midterms or the average of the two.

All in all, I couldn't recommend taking her classes more. She's always super clear and helpful, and I loved learning from her.

I think she deserves a higher rating for 31B. This class is an awkward class that usually took by nonmath majors and by math majors like me who take it for various wired reasons. I can imagine for an upper div serious math class Chiyun will have a much much higher rating.

I love Dr. Hsu, but here class is unreasonably difficult. I genuinely enjoyed going to her class, even though I dislike math and it was an 8 AM class. She is really nice, sweet, and helpful. Sometimes, she's funny too. The homework is harder than the class, but that helps me learn. The only problem with this class is the fact that the tests are really hard and she doesn't curve. Our first midterm had an 82 average, which was great. But the final and midterm 2 were around 72%, I don't remember exactly, and she didn't curve the tests. The final was by far the hardest test I've ever taken, and without the curve I went from having a B+ in the class before the final to a C+. If you really want to learn take Dr. Hsu, if math isn't your strong suit and you just care about the grade take an easier professor.

Her exams are difficult and focus on conceptual questions.

She is honestly one of the best teachers I have ever had. Disclaimer, I am TERRIBLE at math and I don't know how I finessed an A. But that's not why I love this woman, I got a C+ in her class in 31A and decided to take her again, cause that's how great she is.

She is a phenomenal professor and lecturer. Her lecturers are engaging, and she MAKES a worksheet for us every class so we have the problems she is going to do and the concepts we are going to learn. The lecture is pretty easy to follow, but they're really conceptual, which is fitting cause her tests are like that too. The homework is lengthy, and difficult, but if you do it you will do well in the class. It is also graded, so it depends if you REALLY do it or if you find the answers online.

This quarter she added quizzes, which test the topics on the homework from the previous week. These helped my grade, and are fair. Take the discussion on Thursday so you can find out what topics she tested on Tuesday. They aren't the same questions for each discussion, but the same topics from the HW.

The tests in this class are ROUGH. Midterm 1 had a 60 average, and the second one was around 75. I really studied for the second one, so I did fine on that one. The first one was impossible for me, and I felt really underprepared.

With Chi-Yun you have to know your stuff to do well. There's not much partial credit given, and small mistakes will cause big deductions in the score.

Cause of COVID, we took a take home final. Which was a lot harder than the test in class, but we had 24 hours, so it was fine. At first, I got a B on the final. Then, we get an email from her telling us that people posted a couple of the final questions on Chegg or something like that, so in order to not penalize people who didn't cheat, she'll mark the questions she found correct for everyone. This way, I ended up getting a 100 on the final.

With the grading scheme (one uses both midterms and one only uses one of them), I was able to get an A in the class. There's also extra credit, but it's only 1%.

Chi-Yun is very easy to reach outside of class, she is very kind, and if you do well in her class you have to really understand the content. The only problem with her is that she's so smart (I didn't feel this with any of my other professors here), that she skips steps or stuff seems obvious to her. But, she's always willing to help you out if you get lost in class.

I think Chi-Yun is great, and going to her class was something I was excited for, which was weird cause I hate math. Trust me, take her class. She's the best.

Chi-Yun Hsu is not just my math professor; she is my role model. She teaches everything very intuitively and her tests aren't too hard as long as you keep up with homework. You don't even need to attend office hours or anything to get an A. She's a really good professor, and she makes a new worksheet for every class, which makes for easy revision at the end of the year. I LOVE HSU <3

Prof. Hsu is a really good teacher and individual. She focuses a lot on getting the mathematical concepts across to her students and wants them to really understand the concepts instead of just applying them blindly. She puts a great deal of efforts in making sure her students understand her stuffs and is very helpful. She really cares for her student. Her notes are really useful for the tests although that does not make the tests any easier. Overall, she’s a really good teacher and definitely will pick her again to teach Maths in the future if possible.

Hsu is a great professor and a nice person, and she really cares about her students. Her lectures are organized, and she gives out worksheets for lectures, which are really helpful. She is good at explaining concepts and theorem clearly. Her tests are not so hard. Even though there are a couple of tricky problems in tests, she does not put a large amount of points on them. Therefore those tricky problems will not prevent people from getting an A as long as they do well in those normal problems. Generally speaking, Prof. Hsu is the kind of professor that I will choose to take further courses with.

Hsu is a sweet professor who is always prepared for lecture. She makes a worksheet for every lecture and posts answers to them which is pretty helpful. Prof Hsu sometimes skips over steps while doing practice problems.

The tests were not too hard (our first midterm class avg was like a 98). If you understood the homework you'll get a good grade. There were no tricky questions/word problems. However, the material of the class gets significantly harder right after Midterm 1.

There's homework every other week and on the weeks you don't have homework you have a n easy 2 question quiz. Some of the homework problems were really tedious.

Overall, I think her class / grading is pretty fair!!!

This class is hard, doesn't really matter who your professor is. Professor Hsu does her best to put all the concepts the dept. makes students learn for this class so sometimes it feels like a lot of content, but its out of her control.

Exams are kind of challenging, takes some time to complete but make sure you score well on her quizzes and don't mess up on homework, you should be okay on exams.

At times, homework gets really heavy, but if you pay attention to them and use them as practice, the concepts are really helpful for the really hard questions on her final and midterms.

I honestly think I could have had a worse experience but Professor Hsu is pretty nice and will answer all your questions in OH's, which she is really helpful in and are often pretty quiet, so use them to your advantage!!