Danijela Cabric
Department of Electrical Engineering
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2.5
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Easiness 1.7 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 1.7 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 1.7 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 2.2 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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Quarter: Fall 2016
Grade: N/A
March 29, 2017

Cabric was average at best. As some people pointed out, she lectures using slides, but she isn't the most effective lecturer. The TA's could have taught the class much better than she did, and they answered every question in far more detailed fashion than she ever did. Discussion is extremely crucial; I got a pretty respectable grade in the class despite not going to lecture after the midterm, and bombing the final despite all of that, only because I relied on the discussion notes, questions, and the TA's. Homework prepared, but only slightly. The final was pretty hard in itself, and there was a policy to weigh your final more if you did better.

I learned something, but if you want a more detailed lecturer, I'd go with Yutao He.

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Quarter: Fall 2016
Grade: N/A
Dec. 1, 2016

Albeit my interest in Electrical Engineering coming into my first EE course at UCLA was fairly high, Professor Cabric made me have a really tough time liking and understanding the material that was presented throughout the course. Cabric was extremely sadistic and was critical towards many students in the lecture room who simply just wanted to better understand the material. Phrases such as "How do you not understand this?" or "Are you not even paying attention?" were used during the lecture specifically pointing at attentive students at the front of the class who just needed help understanding some of the difficult concepts. I've personally had a horrible time with this instructor and definitely not recommend this professor to any future engineering student who has even the slightest passion for Electrical Engineering as a career path.

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Quarter: Fall 2016
Grade: N/A
Nov. 14, 2016

Avoid her at all costs. Her lecture slides are copied and pasted from other university's lecture slides. Her TAs and her do not know the material well themselves. To top it all off, their expectations for the students are on cloud nine. I took her because she was excellent in teaching 102. Sadly, that may be the only subject she can teach.

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Jan. 3, 2014

Cabric was a really great teacher. She would begin every class with a review of the material, then lecture. Her lectures went by very slowly and she would slow down the class to make sure students understood the material.

Her tests are heavily based on the homeworks and project. Doing those should get you a good grade.

Reading the textbook was unnecessary. I stopped doing it after the first chapter.

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Dec. 20, 2013

I don't see why she has bad reviews.

I felt that just by going to lecture I understood what was going on. Didn't even have to use the book much, which is unusual for UCLA. Also, she seems to think that her M16 class is easier than other professors'. We didn't have to learn verilog in ours.

I went to her office hours once, and she was pretty helpful.

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Dec. 11, 2013

I don't really understand why her ratings are so low. She is not the best professor in the world, but she still does a decent job teaching. I usually perform average or slightly above average, and I did not find this class too challenging with cabric

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March 19, 2013

Don't know why she got such a bad rating here. I thought Cabric was a good professor. She explained the concepts clearly in lecture. I always left feeling like I understood the material better. In addition, her homework and tests seemed fair to me. Cabric gets the job done, and I would recommend her.

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June 13, 2012

She taught everything in class but put nothing useful online, her hw was easy compared to her tests, there was no fairness in taking this course with her
She seems fine when you start the quarter but her inefficiency creeps up on you.
Midterm was totally unfair final was worse ended up with a C-
Take M16 with Professor Yutao He if you can Hes awesome
I avoided taking her for 102 because everyone who has her dislikes her after

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Dec. 17, 2011

There are many problems with this teacher:
1- She teaches this class as much general as she can because the text book she uses is very general. The problem is that there is some stuff that herself and her TA's do not understand. When you go to ask her about it she will send you with the TA. Then the TA (jun wang) will tell you that he already explained that in the discussion and that he doesn't want to go trough again. If you insist, he will get mad at you (yes, mad at you and when he is mad he will scream at you) and your grades will suffer the consequences or during the midterm he will ignore you if you have any question.
2- She has her own people who get more help than the rest of the students during the quarter. Her favorite students are usually ranked on the top ten whatever your effort is to be there (I'm talking about this quarter, I ignore if the same happened before). So if you want to be ranked on the top ten, then just try to be one of her favorite students, any academic effort will be useless.
3- When she is in a bad mood she is very disrespectful ( with some students, because with her favorite students she is always very gentle. I cannot say if there is a discriminatory issue behind it. A more careful observation is needed to get a more accurate conclusion )
4-To all of this stressful issues, I have to add the fact that this class is NOT easy. All of these issues accumulated at the end of the quarter make this class almost unbearable. You have to practice Yoga or any other relaxing activity or your nervous could be cracked down (If you are one of the unfortunate students who have to suffer on your own flesh all of these problems created by the teacher and her TA's).
In conclusion, I won't take any other class with this teacher, unless there is not any other option.
In conclusion, my advice for anybody is to avoid her, unless you are her friend.

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Quarter: N/A
Grade: N/A
March 19, 2010

Prof.Cabric is decent
Although she is busy most of the time, she does well during lecture. She explains things fairly well and although her lecture notes are part of the textbook, they are pretty useful because they contain essential parts of the book. I never had to look at textbook for the first 6weeks because her lectures were good enough. As it gets pretty difficult towards the end of the material, you need to spend sometime reading textbook to understand. As for the discussion, the TA is very nice and reachable. The problems covered during discussion sections are extremely helpful and homework problems also help a lot. If you know how to solve those problems yourself, you will have no problem on the exams. The exams are not that difficult and easier than the hw problems or those covered in discussion. Quizzes are very simple and easy but if you don't keep up with your work, you will easily get very low grade. Lastly, I recommend her for M16.

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Quarter: Fall 2016
Grade: N/A
March 29, 2017

Cabric was average at best. As some people pointed out, she lectures using slides, but she isn't the most effective lecturer. The TA's could have taught the class much better than she did, and they answered every question in far more detailed fashion than she ever did. Discussion is extremely crucial; I got a pretty respectable grade in the class despite not going to lecture after the midterm, and bombing the final despite all of that, only because I relied on the discussion notes, questions, and the TA's. Homework prepared, but only slightly. The final was pretty hard in itself, and there was a policy to weigh your final more if you did better.

I learned something, but if you want a more detailed lecturer, I'd go with Yutao He.

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Quarter: Fall 2016
Grade: N/A
Dec. 1, 2016

Albeit my interest in Electrical Engineering coming into my first EE course at UCLA was fairly high, Professor Cabric made me have a really tough time liking and understanding the material that was presented throughout the course. Cabric was extremely sadistic and was critical towards many students in the lecture room who simply just wanted to better understand the material. Phrases such as "How do you not understand this?" or "Are you not even paying attention?" were used during the lecture specifically pointing at attentive students at the front of the class who just needed help understanding some of the difficult concepts. I've personally had a horrible time with this instructor and definitely not recommend this professor to any future engineering student who has even the slightest passion for Electrical Engineering as a career path.

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Quarter: Fall 2016
Grade: N/A
Nov. 14, 2016

Avoid her at all costs. Her lecture slides are copied and pasted from other university's lecture slides. Her TAs and her do not know the material well themselves. To top it all off, their expectations for the students are on cloud nine. I took her because she was excellent in teaching 102. Sadly, that may be the only subject she can teach.

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Quarter: N/A
Grade: N/A
Jan. 3, 2014

Cabric was a really great teacher. She would begin every class with a review of the material, then lecture. Her lectures went by very slowly and she would slow down the class to make sure students understood the material.

Her tests are heavily based on the homeworks and project. Doing those should get you a good grade.

Reading the textbook was unnecessary. I stopped doing it after the first chapter.

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Quarter: N/A
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Dec. 20, 2013

I don't see why she has bad reviews.

I felt that just by going to lecture I understood what was going on. Didn't even have to use the book much, which is unusual for UCLA. Also, she seems to think that her M16 class is easier than other professors'. We didn't have to learn verilog in ours.

I went to her office hours once, and she was pretty helpful.

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Dec. 11, 2013

I don't really understand why her ratings are so low. She is not the best professor in the world, but she still does a decent job teaching. I usually perform average or slightly above average, and I did not find this class too challenging with cabric

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March 19, 2013

Don't know why she got such a bad rating here. I thought Cabric was a good professor. She explained the concepts clearly in lecture. I always left feeling like I understood the material better. In addition, her homework and tests seemed fair to me. Cabric gets the job done, and I would recommend her.

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Quarter: N/A
Grade: N/A
June 13, 2012

She taught everything in class but put nothing useful online, her hw was easy compared to her tests, there was no fairness in taking this course with her
She seems fine when you start the quarter but her inefficiency creeps up on you.
Midterm was totally unfair final was worse ended up with a C-
Take M16 with Professor Yutao He if you can Hes awesome
I avoided taking her for 102 because everyone who has her dislikes her after

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Quarter: N/A
Grade: N/A
Dec. 17, 2011

There are many problems with this teacher:
1- She teaches this class as much general as she can because the text book she uses is very general. The problem is that there is some stuff that herself and her TA's do not understand. When you go to ask her about it she will send you with the TA. Then the TA (jun wang) will tell you that he already explained that in the discussion and that he doesn't want to go trough again. If you insist, he will get mad at you (yes, mad at you and when he is mad he will scream at you) and your grades will suffer the consequences or during the midterm he will ignore you if you have any question.
2- She has her own people who get more help than the rest of the students during the quarter. Her favorite students are usually ranked on the top ten whatever your effort is to be there (I'm talking about this quarter, I ignore if the same happened before). So if you want to be ranked on the top ten, then just try to be one of her favorite students, any academic effort will be useless.
3- When she is in a bad mood she is very disrespectful ( with some students, because with her favorite students she is always very gentle. I cannot say if there is a discriminatory issue behind it. A more careful observation is needed to get a more accurate conclusion )
4-To all of this stressful issues, I have to add the fact that this class is NOT easy. All of these issues accumulated at the end of the quarter make this class almost unbearable. You have to practice Yoga or any other relaxing activity or your nervous could be cracked down (If you are one of the unfortunate students who have to suffer on your own flesh all of these problems created by the teacher and her TA's).
In conclusion, I won't take any other class with this teacher, unless there is not any other option.
In conclusion, my advice for anybody is to avoid her, unless you are her friend.

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Quarter: N/A
Grade: N/A
March 19, 2010

Prof.Cabric is decent
Although she is busy most of the time, she does well during lecture. She explains things fairly well and although her lecture notes are part of the textbook, they are pretty useful because they contain essential parts of the book. I never had to look at textbook for the first 6weeks because her lectures were good enough. As it gets pretty difficult towards the end of the material, you need to spend sometime reading textbook to understand. As for the discussion, the TA is very nice and reachable. The problems covered during discussion sections are extremely helpful and homework problems also help a lot. If you know how to solve those problems yourself, you will have no problem on the exams. The exams are not that difficult and easier than the hw problems or those covered in discussion. Quizzes are very simple and easy but if you don't keep up with your work, you will easily get very low grade. Lastly, I recommend her for M16.

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Overall Rating
Based on 20 Users
Easiness 1.7 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 1.7 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 1.7 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 2.2 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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