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Jose Yanez Etcheberry

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Easiness 3.9 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Workload 4.5 / 5 How light the workload is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Clarity 4.6 / 5 How clear the professor is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Helpfulness 4.6 / 5 How helpful the professor is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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March 28, 2024
Quarter: Winter 2024
Grade: A

Absolute GOAT. Tests and homeworks were very fair and reflected course material well. Had a very good way of intuitively explaining more complicated topics before giving formal proofs. Highly recommend this professor.

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Feb. 19, 2024
Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A-

Prof. Yanez is awesome. He has a slight accent but from my perspective as a native English speaker it doesn't get in the way of understanding what he says. He is very energetic while teaching and if you indicate that you need any sort of help during class or at office hours (which were really helpful), he will go out of his way to make sure you get it. Each lesson he assigns a set of problems from the textbook, but at the end of the week you only needed to submit 2. The material it covers is pretty difficult as expected, but the midterms and final are extremely fair and doable. He was also kind enough to include two markschemes, one that weighs the midterms heavier if you did well on those and one that weighs the final much more and drops one midterm if you didn't do well on one of them.

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Feb. 4, 2024
Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: N/A

he is wonderful and very kind, his lectures are always succinct. They were recorded and pretty similar to the textbook, but I would always go because he had a lot more enthusiasm for the subject than just if you were to read it on your own. Homework was always short, he would assign a problem set after every lecture, but really he only made you turn in 2 of them, but even the problem sets that were not required were manageable. His office hours were always helpful as well, and he was always willing to answer any question, overly conceptual or otherwise. He does proofs for certain things in class, but you were never expected to memorize any of them, it was just for understanding or if you forgot a formula or something, which was nice. Tests were always manageable and never unexpected.

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Jan. 9, 2024
Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A

Prof. Yanez is such a great and funny guy. Always starts off with a friendly “Hello!” and lectures with a smile.

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Jan. 1, 2024
Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A

Personally (coming from AP Calc in high school), I found that I understood the material best by reading the appropriate textbook section before each corresponding lecture and then Professor Yanez drove it home for me, especially in the earlier half of the class -- so be prepared to possibly have to read the textbook for this professor.

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Dec. 26, 2023
Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A

I really liked this professor! He was always kind and smiling in lecture, explained concepts clearly, and had a VERY fair hw policy. After every class, he would post a series of questions from the textbook that are good practice of the material we just covered, at the end of the week, only 2 of those questions will be asked to be uploaded and turned in as homework. To be clear, you only have to do those 2 questions if you feel confident with the material, or if you had a bad week with other classes! This is really great because you only have to study what you want and as much as you need to in order to learn a concept! Secondly, the tests felt very fair, and many of the questions were extremely similar to the practice problems the professor posted.
If you’re able to take this professor, take him!

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Dec. 23, 2025
Quarter: Fall 2025
Grade: A

Goated Professor. His tests were really fair, and the problems on the test are usually a variation of what he has on the notes. Be careful with the conceptual true or false questions. If any question is really hard to solve, lwky jus think hard and ask yourself if Yanez would rlly put that on a test and that usually gives u a answer

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Dec. 20, 2023
Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A

I found this class to be straightforward/easy, but ik not everyone else did. Fully depends on your background in calculus. Show up to class, take notes, do the homework, and go to office hours with questions. My TA was Benjamin Major, and he is awesome. His discussions are useful because they help you grasp the theory/understand why certain formulas work, etc. His office hours are also great; he'll help you a ton with problems you don't understand.

There are two midterms and one final. Homework assignments are about ten problems after each lecture, but you don't turn them in. At the end of the week, it picks two problems from all that were assigned that week and has you turn them in. Check your work with a friend and it should be easy points.

The midterms are during the lecture (40-50 mins long) and have problems that are exactly like homework. Honestly, it's pretty predictable what kinds of problems will be tested on the midterm if you do all the homework problems. Also, none of them are word problems; he gives you the numbers straight up.

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Nov. 18, 2025
Quarter: Fall 2025
Grade: A+

Yanez is one of the best professors I've ever had. He's clear, posts the notes online, and is always willing to give a helping hand. He's even willing to help and support people, not just in his lecture, which just speaks to his overall generosity and love for the subject. This was my first math class at UCLA, and I couldn't be more grateful for this fantastic professor.

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Nov. 26, 2024
Quarter: Fall 2024
Grade: A

Professor Yanez is a very passionate and efficient instructor! He is always positive and tries his best to help all students. He is very organized, as he consistently posts the lecture recordings, notes before and after lecture, and suggested problems. For Math32A I highly recommend you keep up and do the suggested problems the day of or the day after lecture! It's a lot to go over all of them right before midterms. Go to office hours, he's very helpful and will walk through difficult problems with you!
Midterms are very reasonable; keep in mind there aren't that many questions (as the test is only 50 minutes long) and the professor isn't evil and won't put a completely weird question in there.

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MATH 131A
Quarter: Winter 2024
Grade: A
March 28, 2024

Absolute GOAT. Tests and homeworks were very fair and reflected course material well. Had a very good way of intuitively explaining more complicated topics before giving formal proofs. Highly recommend this professor.

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MATH 32A
Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A-
Feb. 19, 2024

Prof. Yanez is awesome. He has a slight accent but from my perspective as a native English speaker it doesn't get in the way of understanding what he says. He is very energetic while teaching and if you indicate that you need any sort of help during class or at office hours (which were really helpful), he will go out of his way to make sure you get it. Each lesson he assigns a set of problems from the textbook, but at the end of the week you only needed to submit 2. The material it covers is pretty difficult as expected, but the midterms and final are extremely fair and doable. He was also kind enough to include two markschemes, one that weighs the midterms heavier if you did well on those and one that weighs the final much more and drops one midterm if you didn't do well on one of them.

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MATH 32A
Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: N/A
Feb. 4, 2024

he is wonderful and very kind, his lectures are always succinct. They were recorded and pretty similar to the textbook, but I would always go because he had a lot more enthusiasm for the subject than just if you were to read it on your own. Homework was always short, he would assign a problem set after every lecture, but really he only made you turn in 2 of them, but even the problem sets that were not required were manageable. His office hours were always helpful as well, and he was always willing to answer any question, overly conceptual or otherwise. He does proofs for certain things in class, but you were never expected to memorize any of them, it was just for understanding or if you forgot a formula or something, which was nice. Tests were always manageable and never unexpected.

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MATH 32A
Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A
Jan. 9, 2024

Prof. Yanez is such a great and funny guy. Always starts off with a friendly “Hello!” and lectures with a smile.

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MATH 32A
Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A
Jan. 1, 2024

Personally (coming from AP Calc in high school), I found that I understood the material best by reading the appropriate textbook section before each corresponding lecture and then Professor Yanez drove it home for me, especially in the earlier half of the class -- so be prepared to possibly have to read the textbook for this professor.

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MATH 32A
Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A
Dec. 26, 2023

I really liked this professor! He was always kind and smiling in lecture, explained concepts clearly, and had a VERY fair hw policy. After every class, he would post a series of questions from the textbook that are good practice of the material we just covered, at the end of the week, only 2 of those questions will be asked to be uploaded and turned in as homework. To be clear, you only have to do those 2 questions if you feel confident with the material, or if you had a bad week with other classes! This is really great because you only have to study what you want and as much as you need to in order to learn a concept! Secondly, the tests felt very fair, and many of the questions were extremely similar to the practice problems the professor posted.
If you’re able to take this professor, take him!

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MATH 32A
Quarter: Fall 2025
Grade: A
Dec. 23, 2025

Goated Professor. His tests were really fair, and the problems on the test are usually a variation of what he has on the notes. Be careful with the conceptual true or false questions. If any question is really hard to solve, lwky jus think hard and ask yourself if Yanez would rlly put that on a test and that usually gives u a answer

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MATH 32A
Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A
Dec. 20, 2023

I found this class to be straightforward/easy, but ik not everyone else did. Fully depends on your background in calculus. Show up to class, take notes, do the homework, and go to office hours with questions. My TA was Benjamin Major, and he is awesome. His discussions are useful because they help you grasp the theory/understand why certain formulas work, etc. His office hours are also great; he'll help you a ton with problems you don't understand.

There are two midterms and one final. Homework assignments are about ten problems after each lecture, but you don't turn them in. At the end of the week, it picks two problems from all that were assigned that week and has you turn them in. Check your work with a friend and it should be easy points.

The midterms are during the lecture (40-50 mins long) and have problems that are exactly like homework. Honestly, it's pretty predictable what kinds of problems will be tested on the midterm if you do all the homework problems. Also, none of them are word problems; he gives you the numbers straight up.

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MATH 32A
Quarter: Fall 2025
Grade: A+
Nov. 18, 2025

Yanez is one of the best professors I've ever had. He's clear, posts the notes online, and is always willing to give a helping hand. He's even willing to help and support people, not just in his lecture, which just speaks to his overall generosity and love for the subject. This was my first math class at UCLA, and I couldn't be more grateful for this fantastic professor.

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MATH 32A
Quarter: Fall 2024
Grade: A
Nov. 26, 2024

Professor Yanez is a very passionate and efficient instructor! He is always positive and tries his best to help all students. He is very organized, as he consistently posts the lecture recordings, notes before and after lecture, and suggested problems. For Math32A I highly recommend you keep up and do the suggested problems the day of or the day after lecture! It's a lot to go over all of them right before midterms. Go to office hours, he's very helpful and will walk through difficult problems with you!
Midterms are very reasonable; keep in mind there aren't that many questions (as the test is only 50 minutes long) and the professor isn't evil and won't put a completely weird question in there.

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