Professor Conley is THE BEST. He is one of the few teachers I have had so far at UCLA that genuinely wants all students to pass his class. Conley goes above and beyond to help his students succeed. He is generous with grading and attendance considering it is virtual and much harder. I thoroughly enjoyed this class and learned a lot. If you ever get the chance to one of his classes you should!

I almost failed calculus in high school but got an A in this class Will is a great professor and a good guy

TAKE THIS CLASS WITH CONLEY!!!!!!

Literally the best and most caring professor ever. His class was so simple and easy (the last three weeks were a bit challenging but if you keep up it's fine). I genuinely would want to take this class again just to have him as my professor.

Any time you ask for an extension on a deadline he would ALWAYS give it, including labs, and even portions of exams since they have 2 phases. He is so accommodating and would always listen to what his students wanted.

There are so many opportunities to get points in his class besides exams so it wasn't difficult to keep a good grade. I didn't even watch the last 4 weeks of lecture and I still got an A. His class wasn't strict on covering certain topics on certain class days. Sometimes he would over-explain topics which would result in him shortening homework since he couldn't cover the rest of the material until the next class meeting.

For exams, he would always host a review session a few days before it and go over all of the content that the exams covered. Those review sessions were the only reasons I got A's on all of my exams (2 midterms and one final). I'm not even kidding, this man would break down everything and basically reteach all of the material in those review sessions.

Conley was so funny and such a precious guy. He would always show us his dogs and crack jokes in class. TAKE IT WITH HIM!!!!

Professor Conley is one of those professors that really cares about his students. You'll need an account for Aleks in the class but if you need financial aid, he'll give you a code for that. His review sessions are pretty helpful, they pretty much sum up every lecture which is really nice compared to one of those Q & A review sessions. I could've gotten an A if I didn't slack off my studying for the final, the class is doable if you put the effort in. He's a really nice guy (always smiling), very approachable if you need help or whatnot.
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Professor Conley is one of the best teachers I have ever had. If I could take every math class with him I would. He is a very clear speaker and his lectures are very helpful. Homework is completed on Sapling. During COVID he allowed us to have infinite tries on the problems. He assigns challenging questions, but if you go to office hours he can show you how to properly complete them.
His midterms were challenging for me and I failed the first one. But this was because I didn't attend his review session and I didn't spend much time on the provided practice exams. For the 2nd Midterm and Final I went to the review sessions and completed the practice exams. They are very similar to the actual tests. Definitely take advantage of his review sessions. He puts a lot of time into them, sometimes spending 4 hours going over material and answering everyone's questions. He gave us 24 hours to complete the exams. I took about 5 hours on the final because I tend to make silly mistakes but the review sessions and practice tests prepare you well.
Professor Conley allows for 2 grading schemes and chooses whichever one will give you a better grade. Since I did well on the 2nd midterm and final he dropped my 1st midterm (which I failed) and I was able to pull through with an A-. There are also short quizzes every week. I did ok on them, but if you do well you can get a few extra points with them.
If you have the chance to take a math class with Professor Conley definitely do it. He is such a dedicated and approachable teacher. He also showed us his dogs at the end of the final review session, which was nice after 5 hours of reviewing material. If you do not do well in this class it is because you are not taking advantage of all of the resources Mr. Conley provides.

Will Conley (and Artur who taught with him) are quite possible the best professors on the entire campus. I took this course during the pandemic, and they have been so accommodating and understanding of student needs. LS30B is harder than LS30A, but not only does Conley make difficult linear and multi-variable concepts understandable, he also cares so much about student learning and well-being. He's a fantastic lecturer and is so clear with explanations! Only downside was that we had pre-lectures on top of normal lecture, so the workload was more than a usual in-person class; however, the professors allow you to watch at your own pace since its podcasted and drop your lowest assignments. 100% recommend!!!

This professor knows what he is teaching and gives engaging lectures. He is very nice and actually cares about your grades and tries to give you the best appropriate grade that you deserve. He also provides the class with past midterms and finals to study before exam. His midterm were very similar to the practice midterms when I took the class. Also, if you need help or have a hard time understanding the material I would recommend for you to go to his office hours because he is very approachable. If you want a good grade and you will put effort then definitely go for him.

Will not be taking another class with this professor. Lectures were long, drawn out, and unclear. I took this professor as reviews said classes were clear and he was helpful but that was not the case. Gave ambiguous study guides for tests, making the final extremely difficult by involving concepts not covered/very little covered in class. This professor is not worth it, definitely look for a different one.

Actually took for LS30A
Conley is a great professor! He's very approachable, had extra office hours before the final, and held comprehensive review sessions for the midterm and final. If you're debating between the LS30 series and Math3 series, overall from what I've heard LS is easier. However, if you like traditional math, computations, and numbers you might not like LS that much. I don't like math, but I liked LS. It focuses more on concepts than on numbers. The labs though were pretty terrible. They're difficult, especially if it's your first time coding. You'll have to make sure to get help from the TA's for a lot of it. But labs aren't a big part of your grade and coding is never on the tests. As a whole, the class was very reasonable and pretty enjoyable.

Took LS 30A and LS 30B with Conley in F14 and W15, respectively. The new guinea-pig math for life science students math series. Conley is great at teaching and cares about student learning (frequently held three-hour+ review sessions. That doesn't happen in South Campus, ever).

I thought 30A was harder than 30B. More homework assignments (weekly vs biweekly), labs were significantly harder/longer, and maybe you weren't as accustomed to his exams. Only one high-stakes midterm for 30A, held two midterms for 30B as an experiment. For both classes, we were able to select between two grading schemes, one which weighted the final exam grade significantly more in your final grade for the class. Conley automatically takes the better scheme in calculating your grade.

The 2-hour lab sections are not mandatory, but the assignments suck and you can frequently just mooch answers from your TA depending on their chillness (LS30B TA's were all pretty chill surfer dudes wut, LS30A a little less engaging). Find some upperclassmen friends for help, or find buddies in your lab to collaborate from the get-go (the class grading is not competitive, so don't make it a competitive environment). Although labs did get a lot easier in 30B. Also, major fluke with 30B in that the graders who were hired to grade our labs quit mid-quarter...so labs were only graded on completion (wooo! although I wish I hadn't put in all that effort...)

30B they began BruinCasting (podcasts), 30A they didn't. At least not yet.

Copied and pasted directly from an email at the end of the quarter for LS30A: "approximately 29% of the class ended up with A's, about 30% with B's, and about 37% with C's." Distribution for LS30B final was mostly A's. What I didn't like is that there's barely ever any curve with Conley if anything at all, he made the exams drastically harder from last academic year so the practice exams he gave us were kinda moot and unrealistic, and the average grade for the final exam in 30A was a 67%. Didn't make for such high spirits entering 30B.

Keep in mind life science majors must continue on to take Stats 13, but I haven't heard awful things about it.

Bottom-line: Probz a better experience than the 3-series drudgery, and 31 series sounds awful anyway but then again I'm not a mathy person. The 200 or so LS30 kids develop a sort of tight knit nerd herd over the course of the quarters. Just be realistic about dealing with boring labs, a great professor and very reasonably paced classes, taking diligent notes, swinging by office hours/review sessions consistently, and doing all homework (the textbook is literally a PDF file one of the genius TA's created...very readable and easy to process though). Have fun