Just saw that Jose is teaching 32A again so I'm leaving this review. While it has been a year since I took this class, I can still say that he is the best math professor I've ever had. Take his class if you can.

The GOAT

very organized class and the professor posted amazing notes after each class! attendance was all optional and very little homework. the test questions were all very fair. in general, definitely choose this professor if you have the option to!!!

I highly recommend this professor for Math 32A. He is an extremely good lecturer and you can tell that he really understands the material both conceptually and mathematically. All the lecturers are recorded so you don't need to necessarily be in-person but it really helped me focus when I attended the lectures because he's so passionate about teaching. He makes sure to explain all the concepts/equations both geometrically, conceptually, and mathematically so as long as you're keeping up and answering questions the course shouldn't be too difficult. He's extremely helpful during office hours and my TA (Adam) was also very knowledgable and contributed to my success in this class. There are two mandatory homework problems each week, which don't take long, and a few suggested problems that you can solve for extra practice. The professor doesn't have separate practice midterm questions, but the suggested problems should be enough practice to help review. I would always just solve all the suggested problems the day they were assigned because it helped me ground the material in my brain and ask any follow up questions during OH. The midterm and finals were both relatively easy and extremely straightforward. They're just like homework problems so as long as you keep up you should be fine.

Overall I thought this class was very fair. The test questions are similar to the homework and he gives you all the numbers straight up, no word problems. I got a C on the first midterm but was able to pull my grade back up to an A after the second midterm and final. He also can drop your lowest midterm to be only 3% of your grade which is very helpful. Prof. Yanez is also a very clear lecturer. I found that doing the homework right after lecture helped me retain the information best. I'd also highly recommend doing the suggested problems because even though they aren't required they are very similar to what will be on the exams.

Professor Yanez is a very passionate and efficient instructor! He is always positive and tries his best to help all students. He is very organized, as he consistently posts the lecture recordings, notes before and after lecture, and suggested problems. For Math32A I highly recommend you keep up and do the suggested problems the day of or the day after lecture! It's a lot to go over all of them right before midterms. Go to office hours, he's very helpful and will walk through difficult problems with you!
Midterms are very reasonable; keep in mind there aren't that many questions (as the test is only 50 minutes long) and the professor isn't evil and won't put a completely weird question in there.

chill guy and chill class. barely gives homework and the notes that he gives to fill out are pretty good. pay attention and study on ur own and you'll be fine

Solid lectures. Homework is super manageable, as you really only have to do the 2 assigned questions out of a weekly list of practice questions.

Prof. Yanez is awesome. He has a slight accent but from my perspective as a native English speaker it doesn't get in the way of understanding what he says. He is very energetic while teaching and if you indicate that you need any sort of help during class or at office hours (which were really helpful), he will go out of his way to make sure you get it. Each lesson he assigns a set of problems from the textbook, but at the end of the week you only needed to submit 2. The material it covers is pretty difficult as expected, but the midterms and final are extremely fair and doable. He was also kind enough to include two markschemes, one that weighs the midterms heavier if you did well on those and one that weighs the final much more and drops one midterm if you didn't do well on one of them.

he is wonderful and very kind, his lectures are always succinct. They were recorded and pretty similar to the textbook, but I would always go because he had a lot more enthusiasm for the subject than just if you were to read it on your own. Homework was always short, he would assign a problem set after every lecture, but really he only made you turn in 2 of them, but even the problem sets that were not required were manageable. His office hours were always helpful as well, and he was always willing to answer any question, overly conceptual or otherwise. He does proofs for certain things in class, but you were never expected to memorize any of them, it was just for understanding or if you forgot a formula or something, which was nice. Tests were always manageable and never unexpected.