Professor
Gabriela Kovacova
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Fall 2023 - The professor is nice. Her lectures were engaging and clear. Her office hours were very helpful as well. But I think the grading is kinda problematic -- she curves down your grade, receiving a 93 will gives you an A-. Overall I think she made the class pretty enjoyable and manageable. I appreciate it. But I think receiving an A depends on luck somehow even though you paid great effort and did well.
Fall 2023 - The professor is nice. Her lectures were engaging and clear. Her office hours were very helpful as well. But I think the grading is kinda problematic -- she curves down your grade, receiving a 93 will gives you an A-. Overall I think she made the class pretty enjoyable and manageable. I appreciate it. But I think receiving an A depends on luck somehow even though you paid great effort and did well.
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Spring 2024 - Not bad class and fairly good follow up on 174E as per material. There shouldn't be much to wrong. However, she did make it confusing a bit. She didn't curve at all, tests were ok. The TA (Chu, R) was super harsh with grading. Basically no partial credit and harsh/stupid grading, the average grade I think was B-/C+ and she didn't curve at all. He (TA) I think also likes to discourage regrades (and ignores some), and did end up lowering some scores for my peers after initially increasing them (absurd). In terms of this, super unaccommodating and not understanding, definitely one of the worse ones I've had. Homeworks were just 1 question out of a selection, though the HW didn't make a large portion of the grading. It's definitely more interesting and useful than 174E as we use more math. We learn Brownian motion/Weiner process, dynamics (diff eq), Black Scholes Model (the actual PDE and it's applications/proof), option greeks, volatility, Monte Carlo, Value at Risk, portifolio optimization and CAPM model. The CAPM wasn't tested on the final since she was out of town, but we still learnt it by Dr. Voss and it seemed useful.
Spring 2024 - Not bad class and fairly good follow up on 174E as per material. There shouldn't be much to wrong. However, she did make it confusing a bit. She didn't curve at all, tests were ok. The TA (Chu, R) was super harsh with grading. Basically no partial credit and harsh/stupid grading, the average grade I think was B-/C+ and she didn't curve at all. He (TA) I think also likes to discourage regrades (and ignores some), and did end up lowering some scores for my peers after initially increasing them (absurd). In terms of this, super unaccommodating and not understanding, definitely one of the worse ones I've had. Homeworks were just 1 question out of a selection, though the HW didn't make a large portion of the grading. It's definitely more interesting and useful than 174E as we use more math. We learn Brownian motion/Weiner process, dynamics (diff eq), Black Scholes Model (the actual PDE and it's applications/proof), option greeks, volatility, Monte Carlo, Value at Risk, portifolio optimization and CAPM model. The CAPM wasn't tested on the final since she was out of town, but we still learnt it by Dr. Voss and it seemed useful.
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