Jiwoong Jang

This professor has taught: MATH241H

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Jiwoong Jang Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/09/2024	I think Professor Jang is either a graduate or PhD student and this was his first time teaching a class, and I'm not sure he planned on teaching to begin with since my section of MATH241H wasn't assigned a professor until two or three days before classes started this fall. He taught my class using the example problems out of our textbook, which vary in how relevant they are to our tests and how straightforward they are to evaluate. Some of our exam problems, I felt, were unnecessarily difficult to evaluate and included steps outside the scope of this course. Most of them were pretty straightforward, though--just the application of a single formula. Professor Jang has been pretty lenient with partial credit on exam problems, though, which is nice. His lectures move really fast and he often skips some steps when going through longer practice problems which can make him difficult to follow. After lectures, I always went back to my textbook to review and clean up my notes, and I recommend doing the same should you take his class. My hope is that in future semesters he finds more effective ways of teaching, and I believe he will--he's very patient and owns up to his mistakes. I want to give him some grace for this semester since this was most likely an unexpected, last-minute ordeal for him. I'd rate him 3.5/5 if I could, but I'm rounding up to 4 in hopes that he improves. I'd also like to note that instead of curving individual assignments, the curve for my class is done by changing the grading scale at the end of the semester based on everyone's entire performance. Right now I have an 84 and I'm hoping to raise my grade up to an 88 or 89 by doing well on the final, but I have no idea whether that's going to be a B+, A-, or A. I don't know whether this decision was my professor's or if this applies to all sections of MATH241H or all of MATH241.
Jiwoong Jang MATH241H Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/09/2024	Mr. almost Dr. Jang is a great guy. Very kind and smiley. He did a lot of practice problems in class which were helpful. He struggled to explain some concepts to the class, but you could tell he was trying to get us to understand everything.
Jiwoong Jang MATH241H Expecting a B Anonymous 11/29/2024	The teacher makes everything way too confusing. The exams were way harder than the posted practice exams and included very tiny topics that were not reviewed much at all. You could get the topic, but the evaluation would be extremely difficult, causing you to lose points. Take someone else if possible.