Student07

Hi! Mittler actually wasn't the prof for 1029 this year so I can't give you any tips for him. But I believe the reason they got rid of Zinke was because so many people were complaining that his exam questions were random and he didn't prepare them for the MCAT. I'm pretty confident that no matter the professor the exam questions will be fair (pretty much like the homework questions) and Poepping's exams are VERY easy to do well on. And yes I took calc 1301b. Calc 1301b is definitely much harder than 1201b but if you genuinely like math then you will probably like calc 1301. 1301 isn't impossible to get 90+ in, and this is definitely a course that rewards the amount of work you put in. The final for 1301 was literally a mashup up of questions from past exams. So if you start studying well in advance and put in the time to do the past exams you would have found it very easy because they were the EXACT SAME QUESTIONS (same numbers and everything so you would know right away your answer is right). However, people that didn't do practice exams found it to be difficult. For calc 1000 pretty much all the profs have bad reviews but majority of the course is grade 12 math review + the introduction of integrals. So the prof really isn't necessary for learning the material well. I would actually pick my prof based on what people say about his quizzes. All the calc profs give different quizzes so you may have gotten 100% on the quizzes if you had prof A, but you only got an 85% on the quizzes because you had prof B and his are much harder. Profs will adjust the class quiz average because of this but even with the adjustments that 85 won't become 100. Also, profs will not adjust class averages to be the same. For example, I had one of the calc profs with easier quizzes and then on top of the easier quizzes he curved the class' quiz average up to 87% from 75%. Other students had profs with much harder quizzes and didn't see a curve that generous. SO DEFINITELY PICK YOUR PROF BASED ON THE QUIZZES HE GIVES!!!

I took the new physics course taught by Poepping this year. If you did grade 12 physics it'll all be review. Poepping's exam questions, unlike Zinke's are very straightforward and 1029 actually had the highest class average out of all the first year courses I took (78). I personally never went to class and still managed to get 90+ using my knowledge from high school, doing homework questions and going to the occasional prep session. I would definitely recommend 1028/1029 if you are not super interested in physics and just want the knowledge for the MCAT