Jingren Chi

This professor has taught: MATH140, MATH141, MATH406, MATH808F

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Jingren Chi MATH140 Expecting a P Anonymous 07/14/2021	Do not take this class, Whoever you are, I am begging you do not take this class. And if its your last, LAST resort good luck . Chi lectures straight from the book and each lecture will leave you more confused than the prior. His tests are entirely too difficult and he doesn't give nearly enough time to take them. He has no idea what he is doing and your best bet honestly is your TA. Each TA teaches differently and some don't even go over the same content as lecture. My first TA Foivos was ok but he often times used difficult, high level calculus methods that we did not use in lecture, to go over practice problems. (Top that off we couldn't even use his methods during tests) The best TA, is Chang. Chang goes over practice problems thoroughly and gives you practice exams to prep for tests (which is something none of the other TA's do). If you can switch, have Chang as a TA. But in all , this class is terrible. I had straights A's all year and this is the only class I've had to pass. Avoid taking Chi at all costs. Also don't rely too much on the curve, he doesn't tell anyone about it until a few days before final grades so relying on it is a gamble. If youre struggling on the hw, look them up on youtube. Trust me and good luck!
Jingren Chi MATH140 Expecting a C- Anonymous 05/24/2021	Character wise, he's a meek graduate student who's pushed to teach when he doesn't want to teach. His lectures are straight from the book. His tests are difficult and the problems are dissimilar to what problems are recommended from the book. The TA's give no explanation of grading. I would avoid taking if you can. If you must, I would hire a private tutor, and I wish you much luck!
Jingren Chi MATH140 Expecting a D Anonymous 05/16/2021	Do NOT take his classes. He is a terrible lecturer, does not respond to emails, and makes the home works and exams unnecessarily difficult. He gives out no practice tests, and does not give the solutions to the home works, nor does he properly teach you how to solve them. The home works do not even help as the actual exams are completely different. Only take his classes if you are REALLY good at math and willing to spend an incredible and unnecessary amount of time in this class.
Jingren Chi MATH140 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 05/13/2021	Jingren Chi is a joke of a teacher. All of his lectures consisted of him reading straight from the textbook. If you hope to learn in the class avoid this teacher. I was lucky and took Calc 1 in highschool but someone without knowledge WILL struggle. His exams do not reflect what he explains and his webassingns are detached from his lectures A student in our class stepped up and made videos for our class to help us learn if anything that student was the professor.
Jingren Chi MATH140 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 05/02/2021	His exams are nothing we’ve learned in class
Jingren Chi MATH141 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 01/19/2021	He does not teach but at least he follows the textbook. His lectures are basically him copying down a chapter and kind of talking through it. He doesn't really give much explanation and reading the textbook would be more helpful than watching the lecture. Online tests for Fall 2020 were completely unsupervised. There would be a pdf posted then you had to upload and submit your work within an hour. In the end, the curve was pretty nice. I went up a full letter grade.
Jingren Chi MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/21/2020	Lectures aren't really helpful, better off reading the textbook. Very generous curve and reasonable tests.
Jingren Chi MATH141 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/15/2020	You have to really know the textbook to understand the lecture. He basically goes over the textbook and whenever he does an example he does a bunch of calculations at once so sometimes it's hard to follow. The TA taught really well though.
Jingren Chi MATH141 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/13/2020	He is a very boring professor and his lectures do not make too much sense. as another person wrote youd be better going and learning it yourself. Or cheating honeslty.
Jingren Chi MATH140 Expecting a B- Anonymous 12/15/2019	You're better off just not attending lectures and self-teaching. I stopped going to lectures as he would just confuse me even more, the TA def. taught me more than professor.
Jingren Chi MATH140 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/03/2019	He teaches really boring and goes on weird calc tangents when doing a review that does not help for the test, but other than that he's no different from other professors. His one redeeming quality is his curve is more lenient than other professors that I've heard from, and he writes big and very legible.