Tong is lowkey not a great teacher and she's really really picky on grading. She did make one of the midterms take home due to the strike though. I would recommend taking a different teacher.

Many lectures took too much time to cover the same topic and just repeated what was in the textbook. Due dates and homework assignments became ever-changing, which was very disorienting. However the lectures were very organized and all the slides were posted after class each day.

Textbook required and Tong just reads from the textbook like verbatim

Prof Tong is decent, lectures very quickly and straight from the book.

The exams were fair and not overly difficult. There was a lot of homework assigned though

Tong was incredibly terrible at her job. I highly reccommend you take it with a different professor.

Professor Tong basically read out of the textbook and would spend the entirety of lecture time just copying down the textbook onto her projected iPad, but worse: she would cut out some very important language in order to shorten down what she writes down and says, leaving me confused, and was unable to really answer people's questions - **I** could answer some of them better than she did! No lecture recording but she did post her "notes" from lecture on bruinlearn, so what I did for the entire class was simply correlate her written down notes to the sections in the textbook and then read the textbook rather than trying to understand her notes or lectures. If you *insist* on attending lectures, bring a laptop or iPad and just follow along in the textbook - trust me, it's very helpful. She also did not finish all of the content that was supposed to be taught in 33B. That being said, there were a couple sections where she deviated from the text examples, in one case because the text example was needlessly complicated, and towards the end to avoid linear algebra stuff.

Tong is just not proactive about anything: doesn't update the HW assigned problems until close to the deadline (she would very often put text questions down early and then push 30%+ of them to the next homework because she didn't get to them in the class), only posted question numbers for the HW so you can't be certain you're using the right textbook, left everyone, TAs included, clueless about what the exams would be like (btw many of the questions on the exams were copy-pasted from the textbook questions, a good chunk of which were assigned for HW, with numbers changed), left us in the dark about grading timelines, etc.

In general though, everything other than the lectures and logistics were decent: HWs were reasonable and representative of exams, the content covered wasn't that bad in length (as expected), exam difficulty was fine and grading for HWs was a bit on the harsh side so don't skip steps. No cheat sheet for exams and standard grade cutoffs/2 grading schemes with all exams or best midterm + final.

All of that being said, I wouldn't say she was absolutely horrible - nothing she did was her going out of her way to make the class worse or anything. Would definitely recommend another professor if possible, but Tong isn't the end of the world if you *have* to take it with her - just USE THE TEXTBOOK INSTEAD OF ONLY LECTURES. Also keep in mind, F22 was her first time teaching, so this may or may not have changed in future quarters.