worst grading scale ever. Would not have been that bad had he not made such a dumb grading scale. The guy below me speaks the truth

Avoid him as much as possible. The class was not supposed to be like this. Anyone who had taken AP Calculus should take this class as a review. He purposely makes it harder by three times. I should've taken the chance to drop the class when I could without it affecting my transcript. I thought the class would be okay, but it just got worse, especially midterms and final. Half the class is failing already, when I checked the statistics for the midterms (2). The final is just as bad, if not worse.

He can't teach at all! He just babbles, but he really cares about the students he constantly adds extra office hours and review sessions, which are very helpful. I got a 41% on MT1, a 52% on MT2 and a 71% on the final and got a B. He has a really generous curve.

Where do I begin? The class is ok for the first few weeks, but then it starts to go downhill. The stuff he starts to teach no longer makes since, he stops using examples and he rambles on and on. We never got out on time, because he would pace back and forth, which would take up time. He also spent 3 lectures on one example and I still didn't know what he was talking about. Don't let him fool you, at first its fine, then let the confusion begin.
P.S. They're way easier ways of doing/teaching the problems and he makes them harder and longer than they have to be.

First of all, you have to take into consideration that this was his first quarter teaching 3B and his second quarter teaching in general.

He is terrible at time management. He taught stuff up til the last day of class and rarely ever dismissed the class on time. Also, in office hours he would take forever on one problem and you'd sit there thinking what was the point in any of that.

Homework is basically free points since he only gives odd problems. Tests were random though. His first midterm was incredibly hard and the average was a 25% but after grade changes it became a 35% (much better right?) After a week he finally realized that his midterm was too difficult and gave us back some much needed points, which still didnt do much. Second midterm was wayyy easier and the final was average too.

His grading scale is weird because he says that roughly the top 25% get some sort of A and next 30% get some kind of B and so on, which means that youre competing against your classmates.

All in all, he's not the greatest professor since he's new but he's not terrible. If you have taken AP Calculus BC, you should be fine in this class since thats basically all you do for the first 7 or 8 weeks (I wouldnt know since I stopped going after 4 weeks). Considering that I showed up to the first midterm drunk and stopped going to class after 4 weeks, I was pretty happy with my A in the class, but I had a strong math background so I mostly just ignored Louidor.

I would avoid Louidor if at all possible. The class started out very easy, and the midterms (all 4 of them) were supposed to consist entirely of homework problems with the numbers changed. However, following midterm 1 (with an average of 92) this all went out the door and the homework problems became useless for studying for the midterms. Midterm problems were insanely complicated and required a great deal more of experience/insight than what was provided by the basic overview given in lecture and homework. The final took it to a whole new level, and quite frankly I was shocked that I managed to get even the 76 I did (average was around 42 I think).
Even with this problem, however, I wasn't too worried because he said he would give the top 20% of the class As and even with midterm scores in the 70s I was well above average. In fact on the final I was in the top 5%. Turns out, according to his "evaluation" of the level of difficulty of the midterms, anything lower than an 85 did not warrant an A. As I had an 80, and I was only surpassed by about 10 people out of a class of 200, I'd say at most 3 people got As in the class. I got an A- which, though not horrible, should have been an A.

Professor Louidor's Math 3C class was the worst class I have ever taken at UCLA, hands down. Math 3C really shouldn't have been this ridiculous. Yes, it was his first quarter teaching, but it seemed as if he had no idea how to design an exam. The class had FOUR midterms that had 4 questions (25 points each) and were taken during the second half of class.
His first midterm average was a 92%, since he said the midterms would consist of problems identical to the homework problems with only the numbers changed. After he saw the average he abruptly changed his exam policy, and the second midterm average was a 62%, the third 70%, and the fourth 48%. Seeing any inconsistencies here? His exams were so hard to study for because you had no idea what was coming. His exam style and teaching style were erratic and unorganized. When we asked him what we should do to better study for the exams, he suggested that we buy the Schaum's Book on Probability. Great...
The thing that was most upsetting about this class was the way that he handled the final grades. Originally, he had said that the top 25% would get A's and the next 30% would get B's (including +/-). Then, after he saw our final grades he decided that our class didn't deserve B+'s so he completely omitted them from the grading scale. To get a B you had to have between a 75-77% and the difference between a B and an A- ended up being 2% of the final grade. I still to this day do not understand his logic behind the grading scale and I just hope that if he teaches the class again, he learns how to make exams that are fair and reasonable.

He has the best testing schedule, you'll never be stressed with midterms. Wonderful professor, love how he curves the class. Take him.

sure it was his first quarter teaching at ucla, but you have to keep in mind that he was one of the nicest professors i have ever had at ucla. i now know that he is much more organized than he used to be, and he was aware of the fact that his first midterm was hard, but he gaves us points back, so if you got a 40 on the midterm, you ended up really earning an 80 after he gave back points. My TA was amazing, i forgot his name, but he was really nice and had dark brown hair and was super helpful. Go to Louidor's office hours. He is the NICEST and FUNNIEST professor i have had at ucla, thus far. hw's are free points, just get the solutions manual online and you're set. he makes cute little jokes in class too, and a lot of people have seen him at the gym working out those biceps. goodluck and enjoyyyy his class, hes a really interesting man!