# James Tinjum — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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### name

James Tinjum

### email

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    "comment": "James does not deserve the rating that he gets. He is a good professor and makes this class not that bad. He shows you basically everything that is on the exams, and grades pretty easy on some harder exams. He also likes his dad jokes. Go to lecture. You get extra time on the homework if you guess the correct score of one of his favorite teams",
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    "comment": "This class was beyond difficult. No homework was graded before the first in person exam, the lectures packed with information, and for the first 2 months of class he would not do math examples as they \"would take too long in class\". Don't take this class unless you already know all the information. Last exam is online & open note so that is good. ",
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    "comment": "I'm in my 7th semester of engineering here at Madison and Tinjum is one of the hardest professors I've had yet. His lectures are impossible to follow and his hw has absolutely no directions or expectations stated. I spend about 20 hours per hw assignment and still am barely passing this class. Do NOT take his class unless you absolutely have to.",
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