IITB Course Reviews

Review #6

PH 108 [Basics of Electricity and Magnetism] - by Prof C.V. Tomy

Learning - "That the prof taught well, yes he is an awesome prof!, but giving marks was not his cup of tea. Adding to it is the policy of negative marking (-2 or -4) if u cribbed wrong ! :D what more do we want?
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Course Load -
No partial marking at all.(Seriously, ask people)
+10 marks by TA(so total out of 110). A very weird way of grading. No one actually knew how the TA marks(10 marks ) were going to added
GRADING= rip off :("

Difficulty - 6/10
Professor - 8/10
Overall Course - 6/10

Review #5

HS 101 [Economics] - by Prof Haripriya Gundimeda and Prof Pooja Padhi
Learning - A handful of you might have done Economics before, this course will be entirely new for you. Make sure you understand the concepts as Economics is very important in life.
Course Load - The easiest and most enjoyable course of your first year by far. No labs, no tutorials, no assignments.
Overall : you need to have a special talent to get below 8. Grade 9 is easily achievable. Just put in a little effort and you might see a 10 on your grade sheet.
Difficulty - 2/10
Professor - 8/10
Overall Course - 9/10

Review #4

HS 303 [Psychology] - by Prof Khan
Learning - the course is more about how people think about the particular situation and how they connect it to their past experiences, learning process and how people are motivated towards their goal
Overall : You can connect the topics with your routine life!
Course Load - 2 quiz, midsem
Difficulty - 4/10
Professor - 6/10
Overall Course - 8/10

Review #3

MM 301 [Phase transformations] - by Prof N Prabhu
Learning - How to NOT satisfy over ambitious expectations of an eccentric Professor
Course load - Got negative marks in the quiz.
Attempted 20% in the mid sems, and got 0% :P
Difficulty - 10/10
Professor - 1/10
Overall Course - 2/10

[Admin note - How did you manage to pass the course (or did you? - if you didn't, waiting for your next review as well ;) ]

Review #2

CS 213 [Data Structure and Algorithms] - by Prof A A Diwan
About - Designing efficient data structure and algorithms.
Course load - Very less load if you are able to catch up in the class itself. If you want to prepare for coding contests etc then sincere efforts are required apart from the class. It was a minor course for me so the no of assignments were less but the level of the instruction was no less than that for CS major students. The exams are such that one wont be able to do a single question if one has not understood the material well.
Difficulty - 9/10
Professor - 10/10
Overall Course - 9/10

Review #1

HS 443 [Philosophy and History of Science] - by Prof. Vikram S Sirola
About - Development of Science over time and the philosophical aspect to it.
Course load - Class Discussion (Attendance too) + Mid-sem + Presentation + End-sem
Difficulty - 5/10
Professor - 8/10
Overall course - 7/10