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SHI JIN

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Raw average: 2.89/5 from 18 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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MATH 222
Quality 5/5Difficulty 1/5
My favorite professor. Couldn't understand a word he said but as long as you followed along on the chalkboard you could multitask with Netflix. Be prepared for a 5 min drawn out joke at the beginning at the lecture.
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MATH 222
Quality 5/5Difficulty 5/5
I was worried because of rate my professor .com 2.0 rating but I took his course. All his exams are straight from homeworks. Memorising entire homework problems already guarantees A from three major exams. It is true that lectures are puzzling, but discussion sections help a lot. Very flexible exam policy is impressive. He was more than i expected.
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MATH 222
Quality 3/5Difficulty 3/5
Prof Jin's English can be incredibly difficult to understand at times, but his point is usually understandable.
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MATH 222
Quality 3/5Difficulty 4/5
Sent him an email one time asking something specific that there was confusion about throughout my whole section. Got a short, rude email back. He cracks jokes during lecture that make calculus 2 slightly more bearable but he expects students to have an extremely solid basis of calculus making the class hard if you scraped through Calc 221.
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