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She's a great person and wants you to succeed, but in my opinion, not a very great lecturer. Classes were kind of pointless to go to but were mandatory because of in-class clickers. Her downfall is that she assumes everyone has a solid foundation of physics and therefore skips any basics, however if you take the time to look at her lecture slides on your own time, they're actually pretty helpful. Unfortunately though, the TA's for this class were absolutely horrible and had no idea what was happening.

Starting this year (Fall 2015), I think, we did "Life-Science Applications" which were just contrived, long-winded questions with crazy units. The first midterm average was around a 56% which was crazy.

Essentially, you'll have no idea what you're doing half the time or where your grade is actually at because her grading scheme is so weird, but she wants you to succeed so it'll work out. Somehow I ended up with an A so who knows how that happened.

Everyone here is just sallty af. Honestly, I really liked Dr. Shaked because she really is concerned about her students. One thing she was a bit excessive on was homework, but honestly, it wasn't even that bad. You're never going get another professor who gives a bunch of EXTRA CREDIT and even GROUP MIDTERMS. Shaked goes above and beyond what's expected of her and works really hard in having her students understand the concepts. If you have any problems with her class, you could always talk to her about your concerns and she's always willing to lend a helping hand. I felt really bad for her though because a lot of people took advantage of her generosity. I mean come on, she gave about like 5-6% worth of extra credit. Not to mention the average for the overal grade in the class was a B+. Yeah, yall heard me it a B+. Don't look at the distribution on bruinwalk. To all the premeds who are complaining, physics is supposed to be a difficult class. Everyone here expects to get an "easy A" without any effort, but yall need to realize you need to WORK for it, especially since it's a 5 unit class.

tldr; she's fine, take her. There are other worse professors out there.

There are a lot components to her class: clickers, mastering physics, homework assignment, real world application projects, and quizzes on top of your usual midterms and final. This makes the class a bit tedious. I feel like two or three of those components should be removed to simplify the class structure. In particular, the real world applications were a pain. They were just really time consuming and I didn't learn much from them. I liked the grading scheme though. The professor was really nice and she taught the material pretty well.

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Overall a relatively easy class and ok professor. Midterms weren't very hard, although the final was pretty difficult but she was generous with the curve and partial credit. Lectures were very interactive with clicker questions and demonstrations, but at the end of the quarter I did not feel prepared for physics 6B, mostly because her class was easy enough to do well with minimal effort. I ended up with a B+ by rarely studying, so an A should be easy if you put medium effort into homework and studying

Before going into any evaluation, let me tell you a brief overview of the grading scheme.
Lab: 15%
Midterm 1: 20%
Midterm 2: 20%
Final Exam: 40%
Real-World Applications: 5%
Participation Grade: Only used to replace the worse midterm

Lab: 15 points total. 2 points per lab for 7 labs, 1 free point I guess. Labs are graded based on COMPLETION. You just have to be there to complete the lab and get full credit.

Real-World Applications: These are rather my most painful experiences in the class. They require a lot of work: 1 full hour of PHYSICS (do not count in like processing, presentation-preparation time…) and are graded rather harshly by the TA. There are 3 RWAs for my class, and the topic of each RWA has to be up-to-date with the progress of the class. The best of the first two RWAs and the 3rd RWA are graded, and the average is like 82%. So you can definitely do well in these, as long as you are willing to put a lot of time in this: like about 2 hours of Physics plus 1-2 hour for processing and preparing presentation PER RWA.

Lectures: They are fast-paced, but rather engaging. I rarely feel asleep in this class. A lot of demo. The lecture slides are posted afterwards, but I would say that take some time to condense them. They contain every single slides from the lecture, but most of which are either examples, clicker questions… So take some time to review them, type the notes in a separate documents, you will be glad that you won’t have to scroll through like 250 slides of mostly examples just to review for a midterm.

Exams: They are very fair in my opinion. They are very generous in partial credits, so that is a really, really big plus. Just a head up: the average is like 60-70%, but that should be typical for a science class here at UCLA.

Participation Grades: 15% Pre-Flights, 25% Homework, 25% Clicker, 35% Quizzes.
Pre-Flights and Homework are Mastering Physics assignments. Pre-Flights are pretty straightforward and should be “free” points.
Homework is trickier sometimes, but you can get away with it by solving the problems then check back the answers with the solution manual. The questions in the Homework should be either identical or changed in some numbers to the problems in the book.
Clicker: should be free points. You just have to be in class, and answer 75% of the clicker questions during lectures. You can miss up to 4 lectures.
Quizzes: there should be 10-12 quizzes. They are like just quick pop-quiz, 1-2 questions, and can cover 1-2 chapters depending on the quiz. If you are doing well, up-to-date with the class, you should be fine with the quizzes.
You will have two participation grades. First participation grade for the first half of the class (up to the first midterm) and second participation grade for the rest. Keep up to all of these things because you can either replace the first midterm with the first participation grade OR the second midterm with the second participation grade, whichever will give you a higher boost in your class percentage.

There are some extra credits opportunities here and there, but for me, they don’t boost my grades by that much, more like 1%.

So Dr. Shaked is definitely a good teacher for 6A. The class is fun, engaging, and I have definitely learnt a lot from the class. However, I would say that: she did not give us enough problems for us to practice to become fast in solving test problems. If you have time, do some extra ones in the book, and that might be helpful. And if you have MORE time, look up some AP Physics C: Mechanics tests or books (such as go to the bookstore and buy a AP Physics C book from Barron’s or PR…), those are study-guide books, so I would say that they might be more concise with their explanations, and their styles might fit you better.

Hope this helps!

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