# ISAO KAMATA — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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## Dataset

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| UROLOGY   | 5     |
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## instructor

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### name

ISAO KAMATA

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### last observed at

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### ratings

#### review count

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#### quality

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#### difficulty

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#### quality count

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#### difficulty count

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## timeline

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## term

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## courses

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## reviews

### items

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    "comment": "This class is pretty straight forward. I received a BC with minimal effort. The exams questions are all conceptual and not math heavy in the least. Exams questions are not terribly challenging, but I'm such a slow test taker that I kept running out of time. He is a nice professor but soft spoken, he lulled me to sleep almost every lecture.",
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    "comment": "Exams are simple, but he likes to give you a ton of questions, which makes it hard to finish in time. Lectures are dry. TA is stern.",
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    "comment": "Exams are very straightforward. Classes are not the most interesting, but he explains things very clearly so it's worth it to go. He also posts clear slides online. One of the better Econ profs I've had. Don't buy the book, you'll never open it.",
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    "comment": "Assigned one two page paper due three days after final midterm and only accounted for 1% of total grade. Desperately tried to force people to go to lectures but does not care about students' grades or benefits at all. AVOID HIS CLASSES AT ALL COSTS.",
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