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Koffi's an approachable professor who explains most concepts well and always pauses to take questions. The midterms were both fair but the final was quite harder than both of them. The weekly homework is absurd. Sometimes, there can be as many as 40 problems in a weekly HW assignment. Thirteen HW assignments for the whole quarter. Make sure to attend the review sessions and do the practice tests he posts to Canvas prior to each midterm and ESPECIALLY before the final.
If you want a good grade, take him. Both the midterms and final were fairly easy. You would get similar or even the same questions as in previous years, and I recommend watching the review session videos. Quizzes are mostly conceptual, but he lets you keep the highest grade. To be honest, the homework is kind of useless. There are about 20 questions from the textbook each week.
Generally, if you are passionate about math and want to learn something from it, I wouldn’t really recommend him. But if you just need a good grade, then take him. He’s a nice and funny person as well.
Koffi is a passionate and helpful professor who wants to see his students succeed. His lectures are difficult to understand and he will be behind the class schedule for the whole quarter. You will probably need to rely heavily on your textbook and other outside resources to learn the class material and keep up with the schedule. However, Koffis's exams are fairly easy. You will be fine if you go to his review sessions. He loves to tell jokes, so laugh at them if you want to succeed.
I only got through this class because of the textbooks and my TA. (Huge shoutout to my TA for hosting extra office hours and responding to emails very fast.)
We were two weeks behind 2.5 weeks into the quarter, and I often felt more confused after each lecture than I did after reading the textbook/having my TA teach the content beforehand. We did cover all the content, but only by rushing the hardest concepts at the end.
The homework is…hard, and asking the professor about it often confused me more. Tests were not hard because they were very similar to his review sessions and practice tests, but an “easy” A based on tests is not worth it considering how bad the rest of the class was.
It was also very strange because it felt like the professor was beefing with the TAs for the second half of the quarter and (at least according to my TA) went so far as to tell them that they couldn't teach new content or reteach his content during the discussions to basically render them ineffective in the last week. Very strange dynamic. Not sure what was up there.
Koffi gets a lot of hate for no reason. If you study for this class even a bit, his tests are basically the same as the review sessions and old tests. yes, the hw can be tedious but it's not difficult to get a good grade if you check it with one other midterm. His only issue is pacing, but he got through all the material this quarter and I felt very prepared going into each midterm and final. A lot of this class is studying what is on the test instead of all of the content. He explains things fairly well if you ask him directly and he's not hard to understand contrary to what other people say. If you put in a bit of effort, you will get an A in this class.
Koffi is the best Math Professor in UCLA. For every student who takes M32A, you would definitely regret if you choose another professor. His lecture is very engaging. His handwriting is very clear. Particularly, for challenging questions, he will divide it into simple questions and solve step by step. His exam and quiz are very easy, and review session is very useful. In terms of assignments, he will not give any assignments in the first three weeks, and his assignments are not a lot.
Genuinely the worst professor in all of America. I wouldn't recommend this class to the founder of multivariate calculus. Here is a list of everything he does/did wrong:
1. Falls behind on schedule for lectures and makes you watch lectures on holidays to catch up.
2. Made us take the first quiz 3 times because he couldn't format a simple gradescope quiz correctly and blamed us
3. Made a severe typo on the final test which disrupted the test taking process for everyone and did not sufficiently account for this
4. Criticizes students for asking questions on Campuswire and threatens us not to leave bad reviews of his teaching philosophy
5. Assigned homework right before the final that we had only learned a day before and therefore have to do homework after we take the final.
Not only these, but he is the worst teacher ever. He doesn't speak good English at all and his writing is just jarring scribbles. He also assigns obscene amounts of homework, where it would be 10+ hours a week just trying to complete regular assignments. Not only this, but I am very convinced that he is the one disliking these reviews and the one who left the only positive review, because the writing is insanely similar.
Koffi is the most condescending professor I have ever met at UCLA. Whenever someone in the class would ask questions or give feedback to him in Campuswire, he would reply with the most angry, disrespective responses. His lectures are unclear and his notes are unorganized. His homework also takes so long to complete and contains completely irrelevent questions to the class. His practice tests are also nothing like his actual exams. However, the good thing about him is that he grades exams so leniently; you can still get an A on an exam even if you miss like a third of the questions.
Don’t take this class with Enakoutsa. This class sucks the life out of you and it will ruin your summer. I took 32a with him and it honestly wasn’t bad outside of the confusing lectures and the amount of homework. But 32b was on another nightmarish level.. First, It’s extremely difficult to follow lectures because he mumbles and has a very thick accent, and his handwriting is awful. He also assigned so much more homework than in 32a, sometimes getting up to 50 problems a week.
We had to take the first quiz three times before he let us move on, and he made every student do the retakes. He even tried scheduling one of the retakes for a Saturday, but thankfully he moved it to be after class, only after receiving tons of requests to reschedule.
The final was also impossibly hard - 2 hours was definitely not enough and I was rushed the entire time. I probably would have needed at least 3 hours to feel comfortable, I don’t know a single person who actually completed the final. He also made a mistake on one of the questions which led to an impossible integral and there was no way to solve it. The exam was a genuine nightmare to take, although grading did seem very lenient.
Enakoutsa also constantly accused the class of cheating on quizzes/exams and he spent so much time arguing with students on his methods and policies. It’s also incredibly frustrating trying to communicate with him. He either never answers questions or argues with the student - he never provides any straightforward answers. He also writes his own reviews to boost his ratings so don’t trust every review you see.
Koffi's an approachable professor who explains most concepts well and always pauses to take questions. The midterms were both fair but the final was quite harder than both of them. The weekly homework is absurd. Sometimes, there can be as many as 40 problems in a weekly HW assignment. Thirteen HW assignments for the whole quarter. Make sure to attend the review sessions and do the practice tests he posts to Canvas prior to each midterm and ESPECIALLY before the final.
If you want a good grade, take him. Both the midterms and final were fairly easy. You would get similar or even the same questions as in previous years, and I recommend watching the review session videos. Quizzes are mostly conceptual, but he lets you keep the highest grade. To be honest, the homework is kind of useless. There are about 20 questions from the textbook each week.
Generally, if you are passionate about math and want to learn something from it, I wouldn’t really recommend him. But if you just need a good grade, then take him. He’s a nice and funny person as well.
Koffi is a passionate and helpful professor who wants to see his students succeed. His lectures are difficult to understand and he will be behind the class schedule for the whole quarter. You will probably need to rely heavily on your textbook and other outside resources to learn the class material and keep up with the schedule. However, Koffis's exams are fairly easy. You will be fine if you go to his review sessions. He loves to tell jokes, so laugh at them if you want to succeed.
I only got through this class because of the textbooks and my TA. (Huge shoutout to my TA for hosting extra office hours and responding to emails very fast.)
We were two weeks behind 2.5 weeks into the quarter, and I often felt more confused after each lecture than I did after reading the textbook/having my TA teach the content beforehand. We did cover all the content, but only by rushing the hardest concepts at the end.
The homework is…hard, and asking the professor about it often confused me more. Tests were not hard because they were very similar to his review sessions and practice tests, but an “easy” A based on tests is not worth it considering how bad the rest of the class was.
It was also very strange because it felt like the professor was beefing with the TAs for the second half of the quarter and (at least according to my TA) went so far as to tell them that they couldn't teach new content or reteach his content during the discussions to basically render them ineffective in the last week. Very strange dynamic. Not sure what was up there.
Koffi gets a lot of hate for no reason. If you study for this class even a bit, his tests are basically the same as the review sessions and old tests. yes, the hw can be tedious but it's not difficult to get a good grade if you check it with one other midterm. His only issue is pacing, but he got through all the material this quarter and I felt very prepared going into each midterm and final. A lot of this class is studying what is on the test instead of all of the content. He explains things fairly well if you ask him directly and he's not hard to understand contrary to what other people say. If you put in a bit of effort, you will get an A in this class.
Koffi is the best Math Professor in UCLA. For every student who takes M32A, you would definitely regret if you choose another professor. His lecture is very engaging. His handwriting is very clear. Particularly, for challenging questions, he will divide it into simple questions and solve step by step. His exam and quiz are very easy, and review session is very useful. In terms of assignments, he will not give any assignments in the first three weeks, and his assignments are not a lot.
Genuinely the worst professor in all of America. I wouldn't recommend this class to the founder of multivariate calculus. Here is a list of everything he does/did wrong:
1. Falls behind on schedule for lectures and makes you watch lectures on holidays to catch up.
2. Made us take the first quiz 3 times because he couldn't format a simple gradescope quiz correctly and blamed us
3. Made a severe typo on the final test which disrupted the test taking process for everyone and did not sufficiently account for this
4. Criticizes students for asking questions on Campuswire and threatens us not to leave bad reviews of his teaching philosophy
5. Assigned homework right before the final that we had only learned a day before and therefore have to do homework after we take the final.
Not only these, but he is the worst teacher ever. He doesn't speak good English at all and his writing is just jarring scribbles. He also assigns obscene amounts of homework, where it would be 10+ hours a week just trying to complete regular assignments. Not only this, but I am very convinced that he is the one disliking these reviews and the one who left the only positive review, because the writing is insanely similar.
Koffi is the most condescending professor I have ever met at UCLA. Whenever someone in the class would ask questions or give feedback to him in Campuswire, he would reply with the most angry, disrespective responses. His lectures are unclear and his notes are unorganized. His homework also takes so long to complete and contains completely irrelevent questions to the class. His practice tests are also nothing like his actual exams. However, the good thing about him is that he grades exams so leniently; you can still get an A on an exam even if you miss like a third of the questions.
Don’t take this class with Enakoutsa. This class sucks the life out of you and it will ruin your summer. I took 32a with him and it honestly wasn’t bad outside of the confusing lectures and the amount of homework. But 32b was on another nightmarish level.. First, It’s extremely difficult to follow lectures because he mumbles and has a very thick accent, and his handwriting is awful. He also assigned so much more homework than in 32a, sometimes getting up to 50 problems a week.
We had to take the first quiz three times before he let us move on, and he made every student do the retakes. He even tried scheduling one of the retakes for a Saturday, but thankfully he moved it to be after class, only after receiving tons of requests to reschedule.
The final was also impossibly hard - 2 hours was definitely not enough and I was rushed the entire time. I probably would have needed at least 3 hours to feel comfortable, I don’t know a single person who actually completed the final. He also made a mistake on one of the questions which led to an impossible integral and there was no way to solve it. The exam was a genuine nightmare to take, although grading did seem very lenient.
Enakoutsa also constantly accused the class of cheating on quizzes/exams and he spent so much time arguing with students on his methods and policies. It’s also incredibly frustrating trying to communicate with him. He either never answers questions or argues with the student - he never provides any straightforward answers. He also writes his own reviews to boost his ratings so don’t trust every review you see.