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Dr. Viktorova has a heavy Russian accent. However, you will get used to it. She is a fair teacher, and gives tests that are just long enough to finish in the given time. When taking her tests, be sure you dont' spend too much time on one problem..
Viktorova is extremely easy, get all old tests, exam is hard, but she is very helpful...
In class attendance is not required but she keeps track of it with pop quizzes. When she teaches she just puts whatever is in the book on the board so you get nothing from going to class. Tests are inproportionately hard compared to lectures, quizzes, and homework so STUDY!!!
Dr. Victorova is a straightforward professor. She stays on track, but is hard to understand. Writes notes straight from book, only reason to go to class is to get practice tests and take quizzes. Her practice tests are almost identical to the real tests.
very thick accent. never any explanation of how to do problems. she copies the problems straight from the book to the blackboard. when asked questions, she does not seem to know the subject matter completely enough to explain it. avoid like plague
Tests are long, but straight forward. She gives a good heads-up on quizzes. Teaches from the book - yes, but with how difficult it is to read, you'll be thankful when reviewing the book for MTHSC 438 and ENGR courses...
Irina is a good teacher for most students. If you understand most problems by seeing them worked out and can do well without graded homework you're set. She's very clear about what is on tests and if you keep up quizzes should be passable as well. Very easy going about taking quizzes in groups or with open notes. If you want a day off, ask her about the old days in Russia and she'll kill the whole hour talking.
I had a good experience with this teacher. She tells you exactly what is on each test, and you can also ask her questions during quizzes. She has a heavy accent, but it doesn't take that long to get used to it.
tests are straight forward; she is hard to understand
very good teacher. makes everything clear and tells you what will be on each test. group quizzes and take home parts on last two tests. has an accent, but easy to get used to. get old tests and you are almost guaranteed and A.
Tests are 90% same as previous semester. If you study those, you will get A/B. She leaves the classroom during tests. Quizzes are usually group quizzes. Final exam is impossible.
Great teacher with a great attitude towards helping you suceed. I'm taking her again for 208 and I know I won't have a problem.
Viktorova is a great professor. I would really recommend her! Her tests are just like her old tests...so study those! She gives quizs about once a week...which are sometimes really hard, but she's a fair grader. If you go up and ask her questions on a test and you ask the right way, she'll basically tell you how to do the problems.
Brutal Teacher. Teaches straight out of the book. Has a wierd mix between southern and russian accent which makes her hard to understand. Tests are real hard, as are quizes except you can get her to give group quizes easily. Would not recomend, makes topics much harder than they need to be. Is helpful if you bug her however.
Probably the coolest teacher. Get to know her on a personal level and you will make the grade you expect to make.
Very easy professor. Has a Ukrainian accent, but it is easily accustomable to. Tests are almost exact same as previous semesters. If you ask her questions on the test, she'll tell you--even write it down--exactly what to do on the problem. Gave pizza on the final, which was just like the tests. Look over solutions from book and you'll do fine.
Unless you have elite math skills and can work very fast, you will get raped on the tests. The final exam is impossible. Although she says tests are a few problems, each problem has multiple parts, so be weary. If you get copies of her old test, study those and you should be fine.
Great professor, I learned more from her than anyone else in the math department. Take her if you have a chance, you'll understand multivariable calculus. Her accent can be difficult, but her notes are amazing and it's worth getting past the accent.
Good and helpful professor. Course material is not easy, but she helps you get through if you ask. If you don't ask for help, don't complain. Has a Russian accent but is understandable. Ask about Moscow. She can be interesting.
overall bad teacher but easy. doesnt care about teaching, only research. no graded hw. about 1/3 tests take-home. all group quizzes. copies notes word-for-word from book. tests kind of hard but she will help you out if you ask her right. final wasn't too bad this sem. not helpful in class, but will help you outside (if you can track her down)
Great teacher. Course is not easy, but she helps you on tests. If you ever get stuck on a problem or want to make sure an answer is right, feel free to ask because she'll help you out. Part of each test is take-home, but tests are still pretty long. Her notes are very clear, and she always tells you what to expect on tests. Overall awesome teacher.
Prof. Viktorova is a very good teacher. In class the notes can be hard to understand at times, but it is easy to look back at your notes and figure it out. Quizzes are group. Tests have take home parts. Always helps during quizzes if you need help. Can use notes sheets that you write up on tests. Wonderful teacher,I would definitely take her again.
Good professor. Group quizzes. Easily understandable russian accent. ASK QUESTIONS because she will help. Tests are almost exactly like practice tests on blackboard. Teaches straight out of the book. Study and you will get an A.
Loved her.
Relatively easy grader (especially compared to most other 208 professors) but not the most helpful when giving notes in class. Quizzes are much harder than the examples in class, but most are take home or group. Tests are more reasonable. Russian accent is often hard to get used to understanding.
Her Russian accent is easy to understand after a few days. Her quizzes are very hard, but all of ours were in groups or take home. Tests are pretty difficult, but if you ask her, she will help! Final was pretty rough, but after asking enough questions she basically told me how to do a few problems.
She is a very nice teacher whose accent is strong, but you get used to it. She is very straight forward with everything that you need to learn, which is very helpful. She doesn't assign homework, the quizzes are group quizzes, and you can use your calculator and a home-made equation sheet on every exam, all of which are great. Tests are hard.
She was very helpful and you can use notes and calculator on the exam. I was able to exempt the final which is cool. I would say she is definitely the easiest differential equations professor if you use the test bank to study. portions of the exams are take-home, also. no homework and quizzes are group
Later in the year once she got to know us she was more fun and we felt more comfortable talking to her.
You have 4 tests and no homework. The tests were misgraded almost every time. The tests were announced the week before, so they weren't on the syllabus. The final has a lot of weight, and she is not willing to work with you, but she will tell you if you are going to fail. Her teaching style is not helpful, so don't even try to take notes
Fooled everyone with an unusually high grade distribution prior to this semester. She can't teach to save her life, her tests are insanely hard, and she takes off ridiculous amounts of points for small mistakes. A lot of the class regularly made 40s and below on tests and she said upfront that most of the class would fail the final the week before.
Good teacher. If you work hard at it (and you must), you will be rewarded with good grades. Tests don't really change each semester! Final is kinda hard to figure out and study for so make sure you exempt!
Very nice lady, very knowledgeable about what she teaches. Can be hard to understand through her accent. All homework is on WebAssign, all quizzes are group quizzes. Tests are weird, version A is always easy and version B is way harder (or vice versa). Class is just her reading a PDF she wrote rather than her working problems out.
She's nice and knows her stuff, but her teaching is awful. In my section 9/10 times she'd just pull up a PDF of some notes she wrote from another class and use that to lecture. She moved quickly and her notes were completely disorganized. Quizzes are done in groups, tests usually have an easy and hard version so hope you get lucky. Final is insane
Prof. Viktorova has an accent that is somewhat hard to follow but you'll get used to over time. She teaches heavily based on theory, which proved to not help much on quizzes and exams. For math 2060 she gave group quizzes and her tests were not that bad. Her final exam was insanely hard. Lots of homework that will never be seen on a test.
You need to attend lectures for calculus 3 or you will not pass. It is one of the more difficult classes that you will take. Viktorova is a pretty good calculus teacher although I hear she is better for calculus 4 (Diff EQ's). She assigns a lot of homework and most quizzes are group quizzes.
DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS, especially if you have been out of a math class for more than a semester. She moves to quickly thru the notes, so it's difficult to actually understand the content. She is good at making the homework questions not helpful for quizzes and exams as well as being unapproachable and unwilling to help her students.
Calc 3 does not have general exams, and that's where her class sucks. Her exams are not based on the textbook, and are not like other sections. They're impossible to finish in time. They have 12+ free response questions, all of which have things that make them take longer (inverse trig, log,etc). She shows the gradebook in class, and doesn't care.
Dr. Viktorova's Calc III is by far the hardest class I have ever taken. Tons of homework that is not relevant to the test. There is two versions of every exam, and version 1 is substantially easier that version 2 and they are given out at random. She is willing to give back points if you go to her office, but she is very ridiculing and harsh. AVOID
Ok Irina's class is hard. However, if you put in the work it is very easy to get at least a B. Her exams are VERY similar to exams you find at the test bank (look under alexseeva). Study those, copy down her pdf notes, and do the homework and you should be fine. The material is hard stuff but when she actually lectures she does a good job
I would give her a NEGATIVE score if I could. This class was a joke. She was late every single day. She does not teach. She pulls up an already written, sloppily done PDF and barely explains anything. The notes are extremely repetitive. She always expects homework to be done the SAME DAY the lesson was taught. This class was a joke.
Get on her good side. She helps you out a lot if you are. Hard class though
Dr. V is the best choice out of the selection of math professors for Calc 3. There are like a total of 10 in-class quizzes that are easy A's.. There are three total tests and are really hard though but not terrible I averaged 70's on all three tests but then got a better grade on my final which replace the lowest test grade.
Dr. Viktorova is one of the nicest professors I've had. She really cares about how her students are doing and if you go to office hours she really helps. Lots of Mylab HW, but her exams are as easy as she can make them; I was two or three points from an "A" in MATH 2060 & MATH 2080, but I made small mistakes all the time. 10/10 would recommend her!
Dr. V does not do the best when teaching 2080. It's a hard class but she can not relay the information very well. The only reason I would take her is that her tests are very predictable. It is not too hard to pass as long as you study your quizzes. I think she is the best professor overall for the class 2080.
Took this class online so maybe she's better in person but I doubt that. Awful at explaining during the lectures and learned 95% of the class through the videos provided by My Labs. Also she's really bad at answering questions during class. Unless you're good at learning an entire class on your own with no help from the teacher don't take her class
All of her lectures were done on sloppy hard to read PDFs. She read straight from slides. The tests were similar to homework problems done on mylab. Her practice exams and lectures were NOTHING like the exams. There was also not enough time to finish the tests. Most of us didn't even get halfway on the first one.
Heavy accent that, though people said I would, I never got over. Could barely understand. I never went to her classes, they weren't mandatory. Only learned from Mylab's help videos aka taught myself. There are better choices.
Dr. Viktorova cares a lot about her students and this is a CI program where I have learned a lot.
She isn't a tough grader cause she "grades" everything through an Pearson. She never answers questions or takes the time to clarify topics in class. One of the worst lecturers I've had as a professor. She just reads directly off of her slides and is oblivious to the fact that no one pays attention.
Dr. Viktorova isn't always the best at explaining things, but she is very generous and understanding when it comes to grading things. As long as you are paying attention in class the textbook will help you smooth out the rest. Mostly learned by doing the homework!
Calculus sucks. Dr. Viktorova does not. She loves what she does, and cares about her students. She wants everyone to succeed and understand the material. She also grades super leniently, lots of partial credit, very understanding with homework due dates. I really loved this class.
Dr. Viktorova is genuinely a nice person but her class is awful. Tests are on mylab and essentially the hardest problems from each unit combined into one. We had 17 quizzes in a single semester along with 2-3 mlm hws a night. I would highly advise against taking her. The only reason I got an A was because she was kind enough to round my 88.4.
Do not take this prof. She does not really seem to care about teaching, and races through a slideshow or messy pdf so fast you can barely take in anything. I had to follow up every lecture with YouTube. I recommend studying the practice exam and quiz solutions for the unnecessarily difficult exams. Mylab hw is challenging and due too soon. Avoid.
Class content wasn't bad. Viktorova does not lecture well. She reads off a powerpoint and bad notes. All homework, tests, and quizzes are through MyLab Math. Taught myself everything through youtube videos and MyLab videos. The practice questions on MyLab are very helpful for tests and quizzes. Do not take, if you do not want to teach yourself.
Dr. Viktorova is a kind and funny professor who is very fair with how she grades assignments. All of the tests, homework and most of the quizzes are on MyLabMath which can be a pain when you get a 40% raw on tests, but if you prove you know what you're doing in your work, you can get an A from a 40. She is generous with partial credit.
The class itself wasn't difficult but her accent makes her very difficult to understand. Also, she tends to teach from handwritten notes that she wrote during the online-COVID era so writing down example problems is difficult, to say the least. Finally, she quizzed us twice a week and we ended up with 18 quizzes which are way more than usual.
Professor Viktorova is not the best professor. She gives quizzes twice a week and lectures twice a week. Her lectures do not really help and it is easier to read the textbook and learn through MyLab since that is what half of the quizzes and the exams are taken on. The graders are super generous though so as long as you show work, you'll do fine.
Everyone gives her a hard time because of her accent but honestly who cares? Her class is only hard if you make it hard. I had her for 2060-2080 and she was so friendly. If you go to her office after exams, she'll regrade it and boost your grade. She gave us two attempts on our final. She's great. The bad reviewers are probably bad at calculus.
Absolute cannot understand her, her writing, or her lectures. I had to rely on the online textbook to teach myself everything. Most of the work is done through the online textbook and the lectures follow it.
Dr.Viktorova is a great choice for Calc 3. The content of this class is difficult no matter who you take, but the in-class group quizzes allow you to figure concepts out with others. The homework and tests are on my lab and share several questions, and all her lecture notes are posted online to help with her fast pace. Definately recommend!
Dr. Viktorova is very kind. She reuses a lot of old lecture notes, so lectures can be pretty fast pace, but if you do the homework, you should do well on the quizzes. The tests are given through MLM, so your raw score might be a bit scary, but she gives a lot of partial credit. There is also a lot of extra credit available, so take advantage!
Lectures are not very helpful, most people just ended up doing the homework during classtime. There is a lot of homework, multiple choice quizzes and sections of tests directly resemble homework, even to the point of being copy pasted so do the homewrokj. Lots of work but ultimately not too bad.
She is one of the best calculus professors I've had. Her lectures may sometimes be hard to follow, but she makes up for it by being very accessible outside of class and having very forgiving exams, if you go to her office she is always more than willing to regrade your exam if you can walk her through your thought process. Highly Recommend !!
She was okay for the most part. She gives about 2-3 homework's a week that are usually difficult and make you just symbo-lab it once you get the basic concept. Her lectures kind of suck, some of them are good but some have a lot on the proof of a formula. She likes to use notes from covid that are really hard to read. Test grading is generous.
Took her calc 4 class and it was the easiest class Ive ever taken. Honestly I was extremely lazy taking her class and stopped going about a month into the semester, chegged the homeworks, and hardly studied for any exam or quiz. I could've easily gotten an A if I applied my self in the slightest. Take MATH 2080 with her if you can
Exams are weighted 80% of the class and require full knowledge of the material which fails to convey in her lectures or notes. The textbook and textbook questions are nothing like those seen on the exams and she often gets angry when students fail to pick up the material right away.
Dr. Viktorova lectures very quickly. That is the only negative though. Grading on tests and quizzes is VERY lenient, and you really have to do terribly to not pass this class. In order to complete homework, you have to go through Pearson and purchase a $140 course, but thats it. Graphing calculator with integrals is recommended.
This is a hard class and felt as such, but I would say that Dr. Viktorova did a good job teaching the material, and the TAs were accessible if you needed help. It definitely wasn't a cakewalk, but if you put in the work and pay attention, the class isn't horrible.
Her paper exams are really hard, but she will give you a lot of credit back. It was difficult because I would study A LOT and still feel like I was seeing the material for the first time on her quizzes and exams. My advice: where you sit matters. If you want to ask questions at any point you need to be close because the lectures are very fast paced
Calc 3 is a tough class which was not made easier with Dr. Viktorova. Her accent is not hard to understand but rather the pace at which she teaches makes taking notes pointless. The only reason she is not a bad teacher is because you can argue points back on exams and she is occasionally generous. Make some friends in the class, you'll need them.
Dr. Viktorova truly cares about her students. She does teach fast, and off of notes that are already completed. But, if you introduce yourself to her and go to her office hours, she does give you back so many points on your exams. She rounded my grade from a failing grade to a C, truly I believe because we established a good relationship.
Calc 3 is tough and Dr. Viktorova goes very fast during lectures. She's also confused anytime a question is asked because she can't comprehend someone not understanding the material. I'd recommend retaking notes outside of class. She does genuinely want everyone to do well and is very generous with giving points back and rounding grades up.
Lectures can be hard to follow along, but quizzes are pretty easy. As long as you do good on the tests you'll be fine.
literally how has she received a good review she hates all of her students and CANNOT teach. every lecture is just proofs and one example per concept which are always very easy and then the homework is impossible, and she treats every question like it is ridiculous. no tutors could help me. pray for a curve.
Exams are way harder than the material done in class and homework.
She literally said that she was going to make the quizzes too hard/long to complete in a class period, and she was right! Exams are very difficult and way too long for the time given. Dry lecturer with terrible handwriting so her test reviews are practically illegible. Pre-written notes make for hard to follow lectures. At least the TAs were nice.
Dr. Viktorova may seem intimidating but she is super sweet one on one. There are easier professors to take but if you have her it is possible to do really well in this class just know you will have to put in the work yourself, you are working with hard material and it only becomes easy if you study on your own time. I recommend group studying.
Lots of quizzes and lectures can be hard to follow. Studying the material is very important if you want to pass.
Good office hours & TA's; PPT notes are archaic; in person lectures are monotonous (available on Canvas too). HW is Pearson (
A little mean at first but if you get to know her personally she's much nicer. She has a pretty strong accent and her lectures kinda suck so you end up teaching yourself. Tuesdays are easy quizzes exactly like hw but Thursday quizzes are hard. You can do them as a table tho. Exams are way harder than course material and other calc 3 professors.
I didn't personally take her, but my professor had her videos on Canvas. Her video lectures use extremely old and hard-to-follow notes. She speaks with a monotonous voice and accent- it seems like she would rather be doing anything else than recording these videos. Based on these alone, I wouldn't touch any of her classes with a 39.5 ft pole!
Currently taking Diff Eq with her as my professor. Anytime I have emailed her with questions about HW assignments she is rather unhelpful and often redirects me to the TAs who then tell me they don't know what I am doing wrong. So far I have a high B in the class but have had to essentially teach myself everything.
The rumor she gives points back not true in summer. Class is online no office hrs, videos awful. Class graded by TAs (Vikum, bad) unhelpful. TAs relying on 1-3 sentence emails from Viktorova. Tests similar to practice tests (so good). Lot of Pearson homework, cmplx fill in unlimtd tries (bad). 7 quizzes, harder than tests. Class is self teach.
Her accent isn't too bad but she doesn't teach well. She simply reads off slides and doesn't explain everything properly. For each exam, she posts a practice exam the weekend before with worked out solutions that are similar to the actual exam. Good luck arguing for a regrade with her though. Survivable but better to take another teacher.
Viktorova is knowledgeable in her field, and sometimes, she expects you to understand concepts faster than you can. This is evident in her fast-paced lectures. However, she is generally thorough with content. Quizzes are harder than tests but are collaborative and open notes. The exams are pretty much the same as the old exams she posts.
Calc 3 is difficult no matter what, but Viktorova did NOT make it any better. Goes through the prewritten notes very quickly and often doesn't fully explain things, and her "example" problems are done so fast it's impossible to even try them. Her only saving grace is the generous notes sheet allowed on exams. Didn't show up to office hours either.
Teaches off of pre-made slides and goes extremely quickly. Quizzes every Tuesday/Thursday that are collaborative/can ask her for help but often was told that a certain answer was correct and then marked wrong by the TAs that graded. Note sheets allowed for exams were helpful. If you already struggle with calculus, choose another professor.
Avoid at all costs. She makes absolutely zero effort to convey the ideas behind each lecture. Her lightning-fast lectures leave little to be learned from, and she often references mathematical concepts that she expects you to derive out of thin air. She may even give you a quiz on a topic she just covered in that same session. Save yourself.
Writing this mid semester to say she's easily the worst calculus professor I've had. If you want to know any reasoning behind the work you're doing (or how to even do it), skip class and learn on your own. Grading is inconsistent and canvas page is a mess. Working hard doesn't give you a better grade; understanding her bizarre teaching style does.
She gets a bad rap for her very fast lectures, but honestly, it's nice being able to be done with the class in like 30 minutes. The homework she assigns on Pearson is going to be your saving grace, as it has a "Help me solve this problem" button and gives you a comprehensive walkthrough, which can be used for notes. Overall, great for fast learners
Lectures consist of her scrolling through and reading pre-made slides, rarely doing practice problems to actually apply what she's teaching. Pretty thick accent. You basically have to teach yourself through homework. Her only saving grace is the fact that she allows note sheets & calculators on the exam where most Calc 2 professors don't. Avoid!!
I have yet to get a good math professor at this school She doesn't explain things that well, she just expects you to understand it...or basically teach yourself the material. Exams were pretty inconsistent. The first one everyone did average, second everyone basically got an A and third one was average again. Exams make up a majority of your grade.
2 quizzes a week, Impossible to understand lectures. Seemed to be quite harsh grading some of my test. Good pass rate I believe, just don't expect to learn from lectures.
She absolutely BLASTS through lecture especially if you're her last class of the day. 30-40 min avg class time. Lectures make zero sense, but the homework she gives is extremely helpful and will lock you in. Exams are pretty easy, does review days, and gives practice exams that are VERY similar to real exam. TA's will give you answers during exams.
Terrible. Second day into my online class and here's what I've learned: the slides are terrible, tons of grammatical and mathematical errors while also not providing much or really any information on anything. She's basically a voiceover for her slides, and she doesn't explain or work through anything. This class is a joke, and I want my refund.
Took her 5 week course for 2080. If you're ok with basically teaching yourself then this professor is fine. She reads straight from powerpoints and seldom works out problems. Would recommend studying more than you think, as one bad exam will ruin your grade and the final will catch you off guard (average score 58%). Beware the grading scale.
Super strong accent reads directly off premade notes, flies through material, two quizzes per week, and grades hard. Only perk is 3 equation sheets for each test, but no examples allowed and she walks around the check the sheet before the quiz. A top 5 worst teacher I've experienced.
If you are able to learn outside of class, then she is fine. Her exams are pretty easy and similar to the previous exams, and her quizzes are done in groups. The quizzes will take all class and seem impossible without guidance and her lectures are awful. Flies through written slides and examples dont really help. Assumes you know everything.
Goes through lecture notes very fast just scrolls through the slides, information on canvas is not helpful fully relies on lecture content.
Worst professor I've taken to date. Reads right off the slides and flies through them. Barely explains the steps she does for a practice problem. Only good thing about her class is that you're allowed 3 formula sheets front and back and the practice exams are similar to the actual exam. Please take literally anybody else for Diff Eq.
Bro this class is PoopCrap. Yeah, I guess she knows and cares a lot about math, but she just doesn't know how to teach. You'll sit in her class for like 30 minutes and she'll blast through 3 slideshows (That she just reads off of) and make your brain feel like refried beans. Unless you are D1 at locking in and teaching yourself, you're cooked.
She has a thick accent which i struggled to understand. She just read off power points and would seldom work examples. I ended up mostly learning from youtube videos, but when i got to her exams they would require knowledge of algebra identities that she didn't mention in class, so I would get stuck. Cannot recommend.
If you want to actually learn the material, she is NOT a good professor. Her exams are simple (almost exactly like her practice exams) and the homework is easy, but every time you are in her lecture you will hate it. She does not explain the topic, only goes through slides and expects you to already know everything.
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