do NOT take any class with 'Jane' Shevstov. It is literally impossible to understand her during class and so it is therefore impossible to learn. the grade breakdown consisted of homework 25%, midterm 25%, and final 50%. The homework was all coding and was not graded on completion. It wasn't too bad as if you went to lab it gave most of the homework but it did take forever to complete. The midterm went horribly for pretty much everyone even to the point where she mentioned it in class that we performed much worse than she'd hoped. However, even with this knowledge she did not offer any extra credit or curve the test. Instead, she came up with the worst solution ever which was to drop the midterm. This sounds nice until you realize that now the final is worth 75% of your grade!! I am still raginggg over this class and have not met a single person who enjoys jane or likes her. She does not care about student learning at all and is really just the worst teacher ever. If you take a class with her, you will REGRET IT!!! and wow I have to mention that when there was a literal shooting threat at the school, she did not care at all and actually sent a sort of aggressive and rude email even kind of making a joke about it and saying that class and discussion was not canceled and that the shooting was not a big deal at all lol so yea.

If you enjoy math, don't take this class. The pace and content of the course feel like it's made for a 9th grade level math class. The course teaches common math topics like derivatives and limits in a very theoretical way that just confuses all your previous knowledge of the topics. I don't think Shevtsov even said the word "derivative" for 2 weeks after teaching the concept. I really enjoyed my calculus 2 class in 12th grade and was looking forward to learning more in college, but it looks like that won't be the case. The difficulty in concepts significantly increases around week 8 with no warning, so the last few weeks of lectures were pretty jarring. If you can somehow avoid it, don't take this class and take an actual math class instead.

Professor Jane is the definition of a mediocre (leaning on the bad side) teacher. Her lecture slides felt disorganized at times, and she often found herself repeating herself over again to correct mistakes she made. She cannot write stuff down herself, so someone is writing everything down for her - creating a little disconnect. She wrote the textbook and goes rapidly into various subjects; she doesn't explain herself very well. Each week, they assign practice problems from the textbook, + you have to finish your lab from that week. The labs were horrible, I didn't learn anything from them, and my TA was not helpful with anything outside the coding.

However, her midterm was almost a carbon copy of the practice ones she gave. I wish I could say the same for the final. Despite all that, if you find a good group of people, study, and dedicate a reasonable amount of time to this course - you should be okay in the end! good luck

This series was quite literally the bane of my existence. I genuinely have not struggled more in a class than I did in LS30B. The slides were very disorganized and were only published after lectures which definitely hindered my learning experience. The professor is not very clear and I did not feel supported by the TA’s as I felt they were inexperienced. It was very tough to establish connections between the content. It’s definitely a doable class, but you will have to put in a lot of effort. I studied weeks for the final and they were the most stressful weeks of my life. Lastly, there were a couple technical difficulties in regards to the mic so it was tough to hear especially in such a big lecture hall. Good Luck.

Jane was the most unhelpful prof I've ever had. Her lectures are very chaotic and she is sometimes hard to understand. She's not very helpful or polite if you have questions, and she acts as you should just simply already know the material. Do not take this class if you don't have previous calc experience!!!! I took calc in highschool and this course rlly confused me. Overall a bad experience would not recommend Jane.

This class was honestly pretty disorganized, but it wasn't as bad as some people make it out to be. You definitely need to be self-sufficient in order to be successful in this class, which definitely might be difficult for some people. The labs are not required but seriously help with the homework assignments (I highly doubt you could finish the weekly homework on your own without the lab knowledge). The weekly homework is always a curveball, honestly. Some weeks I finished it in 40 minutes and some weeks it took me 4 hours. Going to office hours is definitely helpful for the homework because you are able to get some help from the instructors to debug your code and figure out what went wrong with this class. Homework is majorly graded on completion, which is nice. The lowest homework grade is dropped. There are two grade schemes for this class. Scheme 1 has 25% homework, 25% midterm, and 50% final exam. Scheme 2 has 25% homework, 75% final exam. The midterm was in person and was a written exam of about 7 questions. I was able to finish this exam in half of the allotted time, and most people did finish early. The final exam consisted of two parts-- a conceptual written exam taking in person during finals week, and an online open-note coding exam that was open during a 24 hour period (also in finals week). The coding exam was really easy as long as you had an idea for what to do. You could reference old homework and lab assignments to see the code you needed to do for each situation. Again, with the final exam, I was able to finish it in half of the allotted time. I felt that it was very fair, and most people finished early. In general, I feel like the class was really disorganized. It could benefit from more communication between instructors. One thing that really bothered me was that we had no homework grades at all until the week of the midterm (week 6). And by then, I only had one (yes, a singular assignment) graded. I had no idea what my grade was at all because 5 weeks worth of assignments were ungraded. By the time the final exam rolled around, I had four homework assignments graded. So once again, I had no idea what my grade was before I took the final exam. Additionally, nobody received their grade for this class until past the due date of final grades. I don't know why it took so long for our assignments to be graded. So if you're cool with not knowing your grade at all until after final grades are due, I totally recommend this class! Sarcasm aside, the class content is pretty straightforward and the coding isn't too difficult (many of the methods are repetitive, plus you can always reference old assignments if you need help getting to the answers). If you did well in 30A and 30B, you'll do well in this class.

This was one of the most useless classes I've taken thus far at UCLA. Lecture information was not very clear of what was going to be on the exams and were also difficult to understand. The actual information was not hard to comprehend, but it was a lot of content and little explanation of exactly what everything actually means. Homework assignments are all coding and weren't graded until the week after finals, so all of us were going into the final exam with no idea of what we needed to get on it. Labs aren't required but really help with homework and exams, so if you take LS40 I urge you to go to these because they were really the only thing that made sense in this class. TAs and professor don't seem to communicate much as the TAs most of the time didn't know what was going on either. Shevstov also doesn't answer her emails which was great! The midterm exam was 7 free response questions and the final was only 8 questions. Exams do give a lot of partial credit which really helped out my grade but I don't feel like I learned any real statistics in taking this class. Take stats 13 or 10, don't waste your time.

Dr. Jane is wonderful! The topics covered in LS30B are a bit more complicated than concepts in LS30A, especially when you get to chaos. Labs aren't too difficult as long as you remember the stuff you learned in LS30A (you can always go back and read your old CoCalc files anyways). The class structure is interesting but I feel like it works; one lecture a week introduces new content and the other lecture is a Q&A session for clarification. Homework isn't too bad, most of the time I completed it the day it was due (do not recommend). The midterm and final exam were both online over a 24-hour period, so there was plenty of time to complete the work. The exams weren't bad at all, I felt like they were fair but challenging. Overall, the class isn't difficult as long as you do the homework. Minimal work is required outside of the homework. Dr. Jane hosts study sessions for the exams that are very helpful, so please go to them if you'd like to do well on the tests!

Some of these reviews are pretty harsh, but they’re pretty warranted. I’ll try to be a little nicer and level headed in my review. Calling this course a statistics course is pretty misleading, since while we do do statistics, we don’t do normal statistics and mostly focus on statistical simulations we do on CoCalc with coding and that’s basically the whole class. Her lectures are honestly not very helpful and they were poorly attended after the first few weeks and I stopped going after week 3. However, THE LABS ARE EXTREMELY HELPFUL YOU MUST GO TO THE LABS IF YOU WANT TO EVEN ATTEMPT TO BE ABLE TO DO THE HOMEWORK. While the labs are not graded, the TA will essentially give you all the code you will need for the homework that week, which makes your life extremely easier than it is for those who don’t go to lab. I also just felt like I learned infinitely more doing the labs and engaging with the material than listening to her droned on lectures. ATTEND THE LABS PERIOD. The homework was extremely easy at the beginning of the quarter but got harder towards the end, but the professor was very open to extending deadlines which was nice. However, don’t expect absolutely any grades back until the week of the midterm and don’t expect any more before the final. I did not review my week 1-4 hw grades until the week of the midterm, and so I had no idea if I was doing anything right. Everyone did not do very well on the midterm, mostly because it was very conceptual in nature and that was not what we did in labs or at all really. There are not a lot of questions on the midterm either so if you miss one question it was a hit to your grade. The final was the same, except there was another online portion that was like our labs, which was much easier and definitely was a grade booster so long as you know what code to do. Overall, the class was pretty disorganized when it came to grading which was very frustrating but the course load was very light except from those few harder homework’s towards the end of the quarter. She offered extra credit for making a meme that was worth a whole homework and also gave extra credit for the course and la surveys. Overall, so did not enjoy this class in general and it was frustrating at times. However, the work was light and the labs and coding I actually found pretty interesting.

If you're taking this class because you never took calc/want a refresher, you probably don't need to. There is little to no math involved in this class, which makes it pretty easy. Jane is a very slow lecturer, and it was difficult for me to pay attention during class, but the class is BruinCasted, which is a huge plus. Overall, I think this class was a waste of time, and I wish I would've just started with 30A. However, I enjoyed the coding we learned in lab (except it was a little hard at first), but the TAs are very nice and helpful.