Alpár teaches the concepts very well and gives clear illustrations/motivations to the theorems. However, the homework is not enough to succeed in the course. Being able to do the practice exams like the back of your hand and being able to answer those levels of questions is essential because your grade is about 90% exams. I could not answer the exams questions and couldn't show the grader what I had learned. I do not recommend this professor unless you are a math major or have an excessive amount of time to have a very high level of math knowledge for a lower div course.

32B isn't an easy class and Meszaros doesn't make it any easier.

Professor Meszaros is an awesome person who genuinely cares about helping students out and making sure they understand the material. This was something I only realized halfway through the course when I started emailing for help and attending office hours.

Lectures are based largely around proving theorems and concepts rather than doing concrete examples.

The class is difficult by nature of its content, not because of the professor. I actually think Meszaros' exams were more straightforward than most other 32B professors' (or, at least his exams had a distinct style that you could pick up on if you practiced enough); plus, he eventually applied a huge curve to everyone's final grades.

Overall, this class lived up to its reputation of being one of the hardest math lower divs but I loved taking with Meszaros!

This is definitely a tough class. The homework questions requires tons of work with all those nasty numbers. Alpar is interesting sometimes, but his lecture spends a lot of time on proofs and relatively shorter time on examples. His exams are REALLY hard and time constraining. The midterms average was about 60% and 56%. And for the FINAL. OMG. He really makes it a three hour exam. He only gives 3 questions for the final, but the first one is somewhere like 15 parts and the second and third have around 6-8 parts for each. Anyway, he will curve. But I'd say having a relatively good grade really needs a lot of work.

This was definitely the hardest class I’ve had at UCLA so far. As a person, I like Meszaros a lot and thought he cared about his students. His style of teaching is a little different because he teaches in proofs, and a lot of the examples he uses in class are taken straight from the book. Overall, I found reading the book to be more helpful in understanding concepts. His tests are very difficult. By far the best way to study for them is to look over his practice tests a ton and get used to his patterns of question types. The book problems aren’t really enough to prepare you for the level of difficulty on the exam. I think the class averages for the midterms and final were around 58%, 74%, and 52% respectively. Luckily he curves the class and tests a ton, so you end up in a pretty fair spot. Definitely a stressful class overall but Alpar is really generous with his curve, a good teacher and a good guy.

This class is probably the hardest math class at UCLA. Meszaros did not make it any easier. Although he seemed like a decent guy and was very nice in interactions, his lectures were not engaging at all, and his tests were near impossible. Most lectures I ended up just reading the textbook, and they were mostly pointless except for to turn in homework on fridays. His notes on the board are very disorganized, and his lecture itself was extremely hard to follow unless you put an extreme level of effort into following every word. The homeworks were not too bad, and were not graded to strenously, but the tests were extremely difficult and all of the problems were mostly stuff we had not done before, or at least not in the way the exams asked it or applied it. Nice guy, but try another professor before you take him.

Meszaros is super enthusiastic about the material, and he is also funny and engaging. Granted, it is not the easiest math class, but he really tries to make sure that people understand. He gives out practice midterms and finals so you know what to expect, and the actual exams are indeed similar. I really enjoyed this class, and would definitely take Meszaros again in the future.

This class is definitely really, really hard because the material itself is by nature, tough, but I'd 100% recommend taking Alpar because you will learn a huge amount, the work involved is interesting, and the curve is quite generous.

His lectures are engaging and interesting but are also functionally just highlights of the textbook. But because of this, I found that I could study and learn material better by first going to lecture and then reading the textbook to reinforce concepts. The man does crack some jokes and they're pretty good.

The homeworks are extremely challenging and tough consistently, BUT they prepare you really, really well for the midterms. Having other students to do homework with is VERY useful and a huge component of success.

The two midterms were not actually hard but because you only have 50 minutes it is a huge time crunch and I ended up doing really poorly on both midterms. You will have more than ample time for the final to check answers and fix mistakes allowing you to do well. I had a 30 point difference between my final and midterms and ended with an A so the curve is quite nice.

I never personally went to office hours, but he always was useful after class and over email.

Math 32B has some of the hardest material out of any math class, and Meszaros doesn't explain it well making it 10x harder. He has a strong accent, but it doesn't impede anyone's ability to understand him. Instead, he teaches in proofs and the examples from the textbook. But, that makes this class harder because you can't go to the book for more examples. Also, he never does example problems so you don't know how to approach the homework. The homework itself isn't that much and you have a week to complete it, it's just hard to do because you're never taught how to genuinely solve problems. You're only taught the proofs for theorems or shown very basic, easy examples that don't truly show how to apply the equations. Overall, this was was difficult and the averages on all the tests were F's so he had to curve everyone. I wouldn't recommend this professor to anyone.

Mixed bag. I wanna be truthful and say, this class was roughhhhh. I knew 32B was hard but damn. Really stresses proofs during lecture, which I wish he wouldn't. Averages on midterms were around 50%. I cried. BUTT, even though I got around 50% on both midterms, and a 60% on the Final, I got a B! Bless Alpar and that beautiful curve.