Professor
Gabriela Kovacova
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Spring 2024 - Professor Kovacova is very nice! She offers very organized lecture notes and explains them in detail in class. Her homework assignments serve as good practice for better understanding the concepts and preparing for the exams. Usually, she provides 5 questions each week, and we choose 2 of them to complete and upload. Nevertheless, homework only accounts for 10% of the grade (even though it should be graded based on completion), and the majority of the score depends on the 2 midterms and 1 final. The tests are straightforward and are similar to the homework questions, but currently, the midterms are out of 22 or 26 points, so even if you only got a few points deducted, the percentage decreases quickly. Not sure how the final grade will turn out, but I think taking the course with Professor Kovacova is still a very good experience! Another slight note is that she offers limited office hours (2 hours on odd weeks and 1 hour on even weeks) and didn't really accommodate when I said I have another class that requires attendance during her office hour time.
Spring 2024 - Professor Kovacova is very nice! She offers very organized lecture notes and explains them in detail in class. Her homework assignments serve as good practice for better understanding the concepts and preparing for the exams. Usually, she provides 5 questions each week, and we choose 2 of them to complete and upload. Nevertheless, homework only accounts for 10% of the grade (even though it should be graded based on completion), and the majority of the score depends on the 2 midterms and 1 final. The tests are straightforward and are similar to the homework questions, but currently, the midterms are out of 22 or 26 points, so even if you only got a few points deducted, the percentage decreases quickly. Not sure how the final grade will turn out, but I think taking the course with Professor Kovacova is still a very good experience! Another slight note is that she offers limited office hours (2 hours on odd weeks and 1 hour on even weeks) and didn't really accommodate when I said I have another class that requires attendance during her office hour time.
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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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