# BARBARA WHITLOCK — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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## Dataset

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## instructor

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### name

BARBARA WHITLOCK

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### last observed at

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#### quality

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#### difficulty

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    "comment": "Shes useless, dont take it with her unless you need to. Her lecture notes are straight out of the book and her lectures are terrible. Exams unpredictable because she loves putting random material that you dont expect on there. Simple advice: memorize, memorize, memorize, if you memorize her lecture notes you should do fine, thats what I did.",
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    "comment": "Boring lectures but pay attention because all material is strictly from lectures. Do book problems...a lot of exam questions are similar to her suggested practice problems. If you have any questions just ask her and she will clarify. Also, ALWAYS check your exams when you get them back...I got all three exams scores raised due to summation errors.",
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    "comment": "Great Prof, lectures boring as hell, but concise.  She tells you everything you will need to know.  Best of all, her curves are set at the B, just show up to lecture, and you'll pass",
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    "comment": "Lectures are poorly organized and do not flow, which makes it very hard to learn.  She's one of the least well spoken professors I've met. I sat in on another lecturer because of this.  If you want to learn, find a tutor and learn the book. I would recommend Dr. Clauss or Dr. Gellman.",
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    "comment": "Sweet lady, but super hard exams! I thought the first exam was going to be a piece of cake and got screwed over on that deal. Curves are forgiving.",
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