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Crabb is amazing and he cares about his students. The class is weighted mostly in exams and excel cases, but the class structure makes it very easy to do well in both if you prepare. If you miss class, there are videos with all of the day's content on Canvas, and if you do go, Crabb will be pretty clear about the questions you'll see on the exams.Rate My Professors ↗
Nothing bad to say about Richard. He's super chill and really funny during lecture. He gives you tons of practice problems and I would suggest relying on those more to study than the old exams he provides since they're usually outdated. Nothing too shocking on his exams. Again, just do his practice problems.Rate My Professors ↗
I don't have enough great things to say about Professor Crabb, obviously GB306 is not a class that many people want to take but he makes it bearable with his jokes about his mom's favoritism of his sister and stories of his professional career. On top of running a class of over 500 people, he responded and wrote my request for a LOR in 24 hours.Rate My Professors ↗
Richard Crabb was a really nice person, and I could tell he cared about his students. However, the lectures were very hard to follow along with his notes which were not easy to read. When it came to preparing for exams there were previous midterms and finals, but these are super outdated (2019) and did not correlate well with the actual exams.Rate My Professors ↗
Lectures are hard to follow but lots of practice to do. Discussion and Lecture have no participation, lecture is stuff for tests and discussion is excel case reports.Rate My Professors ↗
Easily my favorite professor so far. He's an excellent, engaging teacher who provides plenty of materials and practice problems to help you succeed. Everything you need to do well in the class is made available.Rate My Professors ↗
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