<p>The title says it all. If you or a friend has taken Professor Tabancay, please tell us what you think about Tabancay as a professor and the course. She is teaching LS 3 this summer, session A. </p>
<p>Thanks for the help.</p>
<p>Seriously, use the search function on here… Every summer someone ALWAYS asks about Tabancay (and btw, it’s a HE not a SHE.) </p>
<p>[I apologize for not being more helpful, I’m just tired of answering this question.]</p>
<p>I thought the professors name was Angel Tabancay. But I guess not, or if it is, that’s a pretty weird first name for a guy. In any case, I did use the search function. After 5 mins of searching, I didn’t come up with anything but threads posting the same question. So if anyone has the answer to this thread, someone who could describe their experience first hand, know that you will be responsible for never having this thread come back and haunt our fellow CCers. Thanks.</p>
<p><em>cough</em> search for it <em>cough</em></p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-los-angeles/460738-tabancay-summer-ls3.html?highlight=Tabancay[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-los-angeles/460738-tabancay-summer-ls3.html?highlight=Tabancay</a></p>
<p>Here’s another one (started by you btw): </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-los-angeles/663242-ucla-students-who-have-taken-life-science-courses.html?highlight=Tabancay[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-los-angeles/663242-ucla-students-who-have-taken-life-science-courses.html?highlight=Tabancay</a></p>
<p>With references to Life Sciences 3 with Tabancay (summer session, UCLA), do NOT take this class unless you are perfectly happy receiving a B or much lower for the final grade. It is a complete weed-out class. Exactly 20% of the class dropped it before the final (it started with full enrollment capacity).</p>
<p>The midterm was ridiculously long and time consuming. Several students in my section did not complete it. I answered two questions on the back of the page (they were the correct answers), but the TA crossed them out and put “not graded.” Apparently, only the answers on the front of the page count, regardless of whether they are right or wrong. The rest of the answers had points taken off arbitrarily. One question was completely unfair, since the instructor had not presented how to work it out. It was a complete guessing game.</p>
<p>The lab portion was awful. Half the points were taken off for neglecting to write a key word on some elusive answer key.</p>
<p>Overall, I recommend taking LS3 with Johnson or someone else during the regular academic year. I took the old exams for Johnson (listed on Blackboard), and they were a lot easier and much more equitable than Tabancay’s exams.</p>