Junbin Yang
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Junbin Yang
KNES287 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/28/2025 |
Changed his grading requirements for essays midway through the semester and started grading them overly harsh. I went from averaging an 18-19/20 to a 15-16/20 on the essays. I didn't suddenly become a worse writer, he just decided to make the course harder for everyone. |
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Junbin Yang
KNES287 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/14/2025 |
He doesn't provide helpful feedback on essays and criticizes every small error in your writing. Actively tries to find ways to take away points from essays as no matter how much you write your response will never answer every single aspect the essay question is asking. |
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Junbin Yang
KNES287 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/11/2025 |
Grades essays as if he wants people to do bad in the course. will never give out a 100 on an essay and nothing you write will ever be "in depth" enough. |
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Junbin Yang
Anonymous 05/05/2025 |
A nice TA, always willing to assist students. |
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Junbin Yang
KNES287 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 04/29/2025 |
Not that you have any choice but DO NOT RECOMMEND. There are 2 TA's for this class and he was so much more strict with grading. It is almost impossible to get an A on the WEEKLY mini-essays and he is not at all helpful when you ask questions. You have to go to discussions and participate. If you just show up you'll get a bad grade and if you don't say something good enough for him you'll also get a bad grade. Ultimately just pray he's not your TA/ |
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Junbin Yang
KNES287 Expecting an F Anonymous 04/02/2025 |
- He does too much for a TA. Does everything he can to make you fail the course. |
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Junbin Yang
KNES287 Anonymous 02/28/2025 |
He keeps marking my things wrong despite following APA citations. His feedback is not helpful and it is never enough. The average for everyone has been 15-16 out of 20 points which seems ridiculous to me. He is a rude person he has ignored people raising their hands in class. |
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Junbin Yang
KNES285 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/12/2023 |
Big no. I had to fight this TA on every grade he gave me. I met with the professor constantly and she was able to correct my grade on a majority of my assignments. The professor and I had to work together to figure out what exactly he wanted from me, and he often refused the concepts she prompted me with. His feedback is unhelpful. Office hours are kinda useless. I went with an annotated document with specific questions about my analysis (he claimed it was never thorough enough) and he refused to read any portion of my paper, insisting I read it to him or come with "more specific questions". He emphasizes "quality over quantity" but he clearly doesn't understand what quality is. I understand that this is his first time being a TA for a lecture course (vs an activity course), but this TA does not know how to engage with students, communicate in coherent and full sentences in response to students questions without reading from a powerpoint slide, and is not easily approachable. He stated at the beginning of the year that he's "afraid of angry emails so please don't send them." I think he lacks confidence in his abilities, which I do sympathize with and recognize that he's putting himself out there, however he is detrimental to students performance and understanding of the course. I believe if i had a different TA I wouldn't have had to dedicate so much time to this course, and my grade would be higher. |