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This professor speaks about five words of English. Taking any class with her is academic suicide.
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We speak English here in the united states...so should the instructors!! I took this class 2 years ago and she was terrible my entire class had failing grades... though in the end someone scaled them?? Get out if you can and save your GPA!
speaks weel enough english to understand - and she reviews the math problems on the test the day before - had her for calc 2 - no reason everyone shouldnt get an A
Very nice lady, but hard to understand. She will help you as much as she can but you will still seem lost. Try to get someone else if you can. You'll be very glad you did.
Szulga is an awesome teacher. She's so nice. Her tests are just like the problems that she works in class. It's difficult to understand her for the first week, but after that you're pretty much used to the accent.
She is a nice lady; however, she cannot teach very well. I am in here class this semister(Fall003)and it is the first she has had a 200+ class. DO NOT TAKE HER. I would strongly suggest getting someone who speaks better English and a small class
she sucks, dont get her, DROP HER!
She is pretty nice. The tests aren't hard at all plus if the whole class doesnt do well you can convince her to give you a quiz to add points onto your test. Her accent is a little hard to understand in the beginning but she writes a lot on the board.
she is a stuttering, smoking, Russian that can't teach.
Yes there is a language barrier, but this fades in about a week. She is very bright and cares about her students. The tests are fair but tough. She is a very equitable grader.
Good teacher for the most part. Hard to understand her accent at first. I had her in a class of about 40 and it was ok. I wouldn't take her for a bigger class than that though. If you need more points just beg for a bonus quiz and she'll usually give in.
Didn't learn a thing in her class. She doesn't teach the material right. Took calculus in highschool and all I did was look at my old notes. Of a class of 30 i was the only one that had an A.
She is an aweful teacher. I went to class everyday and I still could not understand her. I had to spend a lot of money in tutoring. This was the first time I had to have a tutor for any class! I would suggest you drop her class.
very hard to understand; might be ok if teaching a smaller class; i had her in a class of 200 and it was very difficult to understand her; the tests arent very hard and she scales when needed; there are better math teachers, but there are worse ones also
DO NOT TAKE HER CLASS
Lets you have "helping sheet(s)" for tests, gave about 20 possible bonus points over semester(class is worth 100 total), and curves at the end. Actually cares when you do hw. The only way you can't get over 100 in here is if you try.
Run like hell.
Alicia is a good teacher, just make sure you take her in a small class b/c the accent is unusual at first but not impossible. Tests are very straightfoward and easy if you go to class and do a few practice problems. Very easy to make over a 100 avg.
A little hard to understand but you should be fine in a small class. She is really helpful and always tries to put the easiest questions on the test. Much, much easier than Cal 2.
Very fair if you stay up on the material. Assigns just about every problem in the book for HW but only checks it for extra credit. Allows formula sheets for tests and exams. Lots of extra credit. Aced 2 tests failed the other 2 ended up w/ a C.
Can be difficult. Keep up with your homework and make sure you show up to class. She gives extra credit at the end of the year if you do.
Nice teacher. Can't underatand a damn thing she says. Talks way too fast. Weird grading. Tests hard. Do not take her as a teacher .... Yes ... Run like hell.
Runnn! Very hard on grading, doesnt teach to well, and speeds through problems leaving you saying "huh?!" Ive taken cal3 once before, I understood the class more before I took her.
I thought she was an excellent teacher! Her class was not hard at all and she gives bonus points every chance she gets. Do the homework she assigns and you should do fine in the class. Tests come straight from the homework problems.
Unless you like teaching yourself, do not take this teacher. She brings a copy of notes to put on the board, and she poorly does them. Many errors in her notes and takes about third of the time correcting them. If you are a student who needs to see a problem worked out and exaplined throughly like myself. DO NOT TAKE HER!!! Otherwise Good Luck.
Fairly easy class. she gives extra credit at the end if you attend class so definitly go. Just make sure you do most of the HW problems and you're good to go.
Don't worry about her accent- it's easy to get used to and is kinda funny sometimes. She's really nice and will help your grade if you do homework and come to class. If you keep notes, and do homework once a week or so, you'll do fine. The tests are kinda difficult, but it's calculus 3- it's gonna be difficult.
extremely hard test, but very good teacher. she gives bonus points for attendence and homework completion. very helpful if you go to her office. if you stick with it you will learn alot. take szulga.
Hard to follow in class but if you do the homework you can follow her. She gives great reviews for most tests and gives bonus points for attendence. She'll go over stuff if you ask her.
great teacher, works plenty of examples during class so go to class take notes and you should be fine, good with office hours
Polish woman. I hear her husband is more difficult than she is. On the first test she doesn't give much partial credit b/c she wants you to 'know what she expects'. Good luck. B.
She is very helpful, but doesn't always like to waste class time. She gives good test reviews. If you don't like going to class, don't take her because she takes attendance for extra credit. I thought the exams were just as she said they would be, but the final was unbelievably hard. I made a B in the class, and failed one of the tests.
She works almost every problem from the book. Do the homework she will spot check it and base your curve on that and attendance. Try to get previous semester tests to study with. I would take her again.
She does lots of examples, which is nice. You will need to slow her down and make her explain things often because she goes very fast. Polish accent noticeable, but not too bad. Do most of the HW, and use the sheet of notes that she allows and you'll get through it. I would take her again.
Material isn't hard and she does a lot of examples. Tests can get confusing though because the problems often don't look like the ones you practiced in class. Takes attendance and assigns A LOT of homework, then only checks maybe 3 for points and correctness. Not impossible if you're good at calculus
In class, she goes really fast. She tries to help, but when you ask her a question about what she is doing, she doesn't exactly explain what you asked, not on purpose though. She doesn't waste time, if you review ends 10 min before the end of class, she will start the next chapter. Gives major bonuses for attendance and doing your homework.
Great prof! She goes very fast in class, but just pay attention...she does MANY examples on the board, goes over the homework problems that you need help on (DO THE HWK!). The tests aren't easy, but as long as you practice problems, it won't be too difficult to make A's. I made an A. Take Szulga! She should be teaching Honors Calculus!
If you come from a junior college and are just starting out. DO NOT TAKE HER. she does give extra credit and you'll need every bit of it. I left my junior college on academic scholarship and dean's list, I came here and took her and couldn't understand a single thing. She moves fast. Covering 1.5 chapters for the other classes 1.
Very easy teacher. If the test averages are low, she usually gives bonuses. Also gives bonus for the HW and attendance. I'm pretty good at math (had way over a 100 avg in the class) but i feel like she still made it pretty simple. i would DEF take her again!
She's going to walk in, start talking, and you're going to say, I'm screwed, but she's actually really good. It takes a day or two but you eventually will understand her. She flies through all the lessons but does plenty of examples. Also gives bonus for attendance and homework (which you should do wink) I would take her again, very nice and fair.
Dr. A Szulga is an awesome cal 3 professor. All you need to do is go to class, write every single problem she writes, and do a little homework every now and then for extra points. She tells you what will be on the tests. I took Olav Kallenberg last semester for Cal 3 and failed big time, AVOID KALLENBERG. After two tests with Szulga I have an A.
horrible teacher avoid at all costs. You will have to teach yourself the material. The tests are not horrible, assigns a ton of homework every night, and incomprehensible. Constantly jumps around and makes a ton of mistakes. AVOID!!
I would recommend taking her in a class that is longer than 50 min because of the test. The test cover all the problems she works in class, but the integrals she expects you to work out are ridiculus, especially for the time you are given to take the test. She has no theory behind her teaching so you will not know what half the stuff is used for.
She goes REALLY fast during class but does hmwrk problems so you can figure out how to do all of them and tells you whats on the tests. Grading tecnique is easy. Go to class and do the homework and she'll curve at the end. Really nice and helpful during office hours. Tests are reasonable and will give make up quizzes and hmwrk to help your grade.
She goes REALLY fast during class. Does hmwrk problems so you can figure out how to do all of them. Tells you whats on the tests. Grading tecnique is easy. Go to class & do the homework & she'll curve at the end. Really nice & helpful during office hours. Tests are reasonable, will give make up quizzes & hmwrk to help your grade. Take her!
She doesn't teach with any theory so u will not know what 1/2 the stuff is used for. Her test are hard, especially having to take them in 50 min so u probably won't finish. She grades the test sort of fairly based on the work u did. She says she scales according 2 attendence or homework, but u really don't know how much u have 2 be there for scale.
bit of a language barrier, but gives lots of bonus points for homework and attendance
tough class, but LOTS of bonus points for attendance at end, do the homework, go to class, easy a
Her extra credit more than makes up for her moderate inability to get her point across and the fact that there is not enough time to finish her tests. Fairly easy A with a bit of studying.
Extra credit makes this class a breeze. If you take the time to attend class and do the homework, you should do well. The language barrier often inhibits her ability to understand questions and her tests are sometimes difficult to finish in time; however, she is a very sweet person who makes herself available for extra help. Not a hard class.
Take notes and study those, that is what she tests on. Do the homework, she gives mad bonus points if you just try to do them.
Very nice lady. I got used to her accent within a day or two then it wasn't a problem at all. TONS of extra credit for being there and for homework. I hardly ever did homework but was there everyday and did well in the class. If I could go back, I would do the homework to take some pressure off of needing to do so well on tests.
SO MUCH extra credit.
After you get past her accent, she is a really good professor. She uses the whole class time working examples which makes learning easy. She also gives extra credit!
I had her for Cal III. First few days a bit getting use to. She goes really fast but you will get use to it. She goes over what kinds of questions going to be on test b4 the test. She will give 5-7 points to your final grade(attend her class and do your hw!). Trust me this will help ALOTTT. I made an A bc of the extra points meaning to final exam=]
She has a medium/thick foreign accent, and that's the least of your problems. Never taught reasoning or theory behind math principles; just covered the board in examples. She did give enough extra credit on each test to get a 110 max, and exempted A students from final exam. Often used her own formulas instead of those in the textbook.
She was not a very good teacher. Definitely smart and brilliant, but it seemed she would just pick a problem and talk to herself as she wrote it out on the board. Not very approachable. I essentially taught myself and didn't learn the material till after i was tested on it
I never missed a single class. I did not find her teaching to be beneficial, but she gave extra credit. In hindsight, I wish I took Linear Algebra with a better instructor.
Her teaching method takes some getting used to; she just works lots of examples FAST. However, she always told us exactly what would be on each test and gave tons of extra credit. It was pretty easy to get an A and exempt the final.
Not helpful at all! She absolutely refuses to answer questions. Avoid at all costs!
The way she teaches the material is by briefly writing down the equations and then solving problems in the book, without much explanation behind each solution. You can't rely much on the notes she writes during lecture, because they are a mess to read. Her thick Slavic accent also makes lectures a hassle. She struggles with advanced English.
Great teacher! Works book problems in class that help you with your homework. Tests are pretty comprehensive, no tricks and as long as you do what she taught you correctly she won't take off a ton of points for small algebra mistakes. Strong accent but you get used to it quickly. Go to class, do your homework and you'll be fine!
Scales like crazy! I failed two of her test(made a 33&60) and still ended up with an A in the class(not kidding). She is hard to understand because she just runs through the material with thick polish accent. The stuff in Cal 3 is kinda abstract. She does a terrible job explaining. So I never went to class.
Not the best at explaining but gives extra credit like crazy. I always went to class and did the assigned homework. I went into the final with a high C and she gave me an A in the class. Just make sure you go and talk to her and let her know you're trying and you'll be fine
Did not have a difficult time understanding her accent after I got used to it. Tests are much harder than the book problems or example problems. She takes off alot for small mistakes and my grade didn't reflect how I felt like I understood the material. Ultimately, I went into the final with a 79 and ended up with an A (impossible) so she did scale
Terrible teacher. I didn't learn anything from her
Scales like crazy. She passes around attendance sheets and I think that is what she uses to determine your scale later on. Final exam problems were test problems from the old tests with different numbers. she even told us exactly which ones to study.
She has been known to scale based on attendance and homework problems worked, but she didn't seem to scale our class that way. Either way, do the work and its not hard. Her accent is very tough and lectures can be confusing, but she will be there to give help if you ask. Usually tells you what type of problems that will be on the test. Finished B.
She has an accent, but after a day or two it's not hard to understand. She gives a ton of homework, but won't take it up. I think she uses it and attendance to give out extra credit at the end. It may have been because I was in the Honors course, but we only had the four tests and the final as grades. Each test was 18 points. It was very hard.
She has an accent, but she's understandable. She tries to explain things, but only covers the basics of the explanation, and can get confusing. She loves graphslimits, be prepared to graph a lot, and show your work with limits. Her tests weren't too bad until her final, which was completely different than her tests. Come to class for lecture
She doesn't really teach. All she does is put textbook formulas on the board and works examples all class long. From these, she derives the hardest possible problems she can expect you to work in 50 mins, and makes an exam out of them. Her exams are graded very tough, with partial credit being few and far between.
Dr. Szulga is a nice lady but she's the worst teacher I have ever had. Rather than teaching concepts she just works out homework problems on the board. Any learning you will do in this class will be on your own. Tests are also very hard and look nothing like the homework. Gives some extra credit if you come to class, but not much. Avoid her class.
She has a thick accent and doesn't have a huge vocabulary. She moves pretty fast through the material. YOU HAVE TO GO TO CLASS AND DO THE HOMEWORK. Your scale at the end of the class depends on attendance and if you do the homework. I had a 47 going into the final and got scaled to a C because I never missed a class and did the homework.
She is a lovely lady and I liked her because she did a lot of examples in class. She gave 4 tests worth 18 points each and the final worth 28 points. I had a mid-B going into the final and ended up with an A because she gave me some extra points. If you go to class and do the assigned homework you should get some extra points.
Alicja has a deep accent but you gets better after a few weeks. She assigns non mandatory homework and practice exams, do them!!b homework is easier than tests. need to know calculus before taking class. I only got a B because i got injured in the middle of semester. Gives extra credit for attendance at the end.
Her accent is terrible but if you can get past that (I couldn't really) you should be fine. Do the homework she gives and she will remember at the end of the semester. Also, do the practice tests, they help a lot. Don't worry too much if you aren't doing very well because she helps out a lot at the end. I don't know anyone that has actually failed.
AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL I love math but she makes the class insanely difficult the questions she assigns are so difficult my tutor couldnt figure them out and the ones on the test are just as hard if not harder, you have to go to class she takes attendance every single day, lectures are terrible she doesnt work out problems to completion
She's a very fair grader and tries to give you as much extra credit as possible. I really enjoy her lectures. She assigns occasional homework but she rarely takes it up and just to see who has done it. My only issue is that the class only has 5 grades, the tests and final.
Tough, Cal 3 ended up being a bigger struggle than all my other classes.
Doesn't take attendance for a grade, but she takes it and uses it to scale, so GO TO LECTURE. She also doesn't grade homework, but assigns it and check to see if you tried. She has a thick accent but you get used to it. She's very sweet and teaches well, but tests are hard. She gives a practice test before each exam. 4 exams and a final.
Lecture mostly consists of working through example problems from the book. Not a ton of theory. Might require a little reading. Tests are not too bad if you work through the practice exam beforehand. Homework and attendance not mandatory, but she uses them to scale at the end of the semester. Very sweet and helpful lady. Dr. S is great.
Hard class, fast-paced, works out problems, not much theory. Thick Polish accent, you get used to it. Go to class, do the homework, its what she bases her curve on. I was barely passing when I took the final and ended with a C. Webassign is required for hw, includes your textbook online. She's pretty nice, wants to see that you tried. Still hard.
I have basically been teaching cal 3 to myself. Studied 40+ hours for the first exam and still made a 60. Tests are 4-5 questions, so if you miss one, it really hurts your grade. Avoid this one if you can.
Not doing too hot in there right now but she is more than willing to help whenever she can. Her office hours are incredibly helpful as well.
One of the most important things in this class is to do the homework. It helps you prepare for tests and she often gives you extra credit if you work it. Asks questions when you need to and make sure to work and study practice tests, and go to class when she works them out. If you do that, her tests are definitely doable. She's very understanding.
She moves really fast so if you are not paying attention in class you will not know whats going on. Grade is based completely off test and you can get exempt from the final. Her tests are almost exactly like the practice tests she gives you, so just go over those and you will do fine.
Dr. Szulga is a nice professor, although she seems tough at first. Once you get used to her accent, lectures are fine, but she is sometimes unclear when answering questions or explaining concepts. Homework is not graded but highly recommended. At the end, she will raise your final grade based on attendance and homework completion.
Extremely thick polish accent, and tests are much harder than the practice tests she gives you. If you like your GPA or don't want a class you have to study much for, do not take this class! If you like suffering with very little instruction, this one is for you!
Taking a math class with Dr. Szulga is a terrible idea. She is nice, but very, very difficult. Tests are very challenging and each out of 19 points, graded harshly. Final is out of 24. Whole class is out of 100. Although she does curve, it is very difficult to get a good grade. Worst math professor I have had a AU, Cal 3 should not be this hard.
Professor sucks at teaching. Gives stupid hard tests that are way harder than the practice exams. Does have 2 extra credit ?s on each exam and will give bonus quizzes if the class requests. Curves like crazy at the end depending on attendance and homework. I had a C and ended up with an A.
This lady is precious, but thats about it. She doesnt teach, she just writes down problems on the board. Cal 1 should not have been this difficult, when I made a 5 on the AP exam. She also told me she would scale me and did not, despite doing all the homework and going to class every day.
She moves extremely fast so skipping class will mean that you probably won't know how to do certain problems. Your grade is only dependent on four tests with no drop test or anything so you need to make sure you do good on these tests, she gives you a study guide for each test and the test is usually very similar to that so know everything on it.
Szulga is a very nice lady and teacher, but she cannot teach the content effectively. There is a lot of assumption and not a lot of explanation. She'll try to answer questions, but it is still hard to understand. Outside studying and learning is a must to do well. She really tries, but she ends up sacrificing quality for quantity.
Szulga doesnt really explain the material. She works problem after problem on the board and assumes that the students know how to solve them. Would not recommend unless you plan on teaching yourself calculus.
Homework optional, but highly recommend. Start studying early. Will not curve tests, but curves final grade at the end of the semester. EXTREMELY quiet speaker, if in a lecture hall sit close. Be prepared to either teach yourself or go to tutoring. Book is online access unless you opt out. Confusing explanations and only works examples in class
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