Santugini is the boy, he is super nice and approachable, so definitely do not hesitate to reach out to him if you need help. I didnt take Santugini for 3010 but took a lot of his electives and his structure is very similar in all of his classes.

Santugini usually lectures for 60-65 minutes of the class, and then will give you an attendance quiz which is a question based on the lecture and not included in your grade (but still important to understand how to do for later). Sometimes you will feel lost in lecture but really try to write everything that he writes down and try to see if you understand how certain portions of the lecture connect with one another. He lectures pretty quickly but posts his lecture notes after lecture. If you do not go to lecture you will feel lost so I would highly reccomend not skipping his class. He will also post supplemental videos in addition to his lecture and be sure to watch these as you are responsible for that content as well So after every class you will have a lecture quiz which is graded on completion and you will have 2 days to complete this, and every week you will have a homework assignment that is graded on accuracy. Most Attendance Quiz, Lecture Quiz, and Homework will be given a video solution after they are due. Now outside of this Santugini will post practice questions that he doesnt post solutions too (you can DM him while working on it for questions/feedback) but they can be possible exam questions. From this as you can probably tell there are a lot of resources and assignments to practice, so basically by giving an honest effort by either going to TA office hours or reaching out to Marc there are so many ways to get help when you are stuck. Its important to ask for help early and often as Marc will respond less close to exam day due to more people reaching out.

There are 3 non-cumulative exams and 1 cumulative final but 1 of these get dropped, so you still have wiggle room. I would say the difficulty in his exams comes from the time-crunch, all of the content on them is fair as it is stuff you have seen before in lecture/other assignments. The strategy I would take when preparing for his exams, is compiling a list of all of his assignments, and randomly picking 7-9 of them and simulating a timed exam with those questions and grade yourself after. Understand the set-up and understand what variable you are solving for. Sometimes all of the assignments blend together so it is important you understand what operator is used for each question and why. Get comfortable at algebra and try to see where he uses shortcuts in his videos, usually when i took his exams, I would get caught up in the algebra, so it is important to do problems over and over untill you can do it without worrying about the algebraic mistake. Honestly if you do this you should very comfortably be in the B+/A-/A/A+ range on exams. He will usually add an extra point or two related to bitcoin or his kids performance in sports on exams which over the course of the semester adds up as a half-letter/full-letter grade curve. He also sometimes will lower grade thresholds based on averages

I estimate to do well in his 3010 course you need to be ready to budget 6-10 hours a week outside of lecture to do well. However because of how structured and organized the class is I think following these steps become super doable.

1 points Guy9ty

Santugini will teach you everything you need to know. Just pay attention and do the HW assignments he assigns, and watch all the supplemental videos or materials! Basically if you do everything he says it will be okay 😃 great teacher

1 points krishnamb

Santugini is the boy, he is super nice and approachable, so definitely do not hesitate to reach out to him if you need help. I didnt take Santugini for 3010 but took a lot of his electives and his structure is very similar in all of his classes.

Santugini usually lectures for 60-65 minutes of the class, and then will give you an attendance quiz which is a question based on the lecture and not included in your grade (but still important to understand how to do for later). Sometimes you will feel lost in lecture but really try to write everything that he writes down and try to see if you understand how certain portions of the lecture connect with one another. He lectures pretty quickly but posts his lecture notes after lecture. If you do not go to lecture you will feel lost so I would highly reccomend not skipping his class. He will also post supplemental videos in addition to his lecture and be sure to watch these as you are responsible for that content as well So after every class you will have a lecture quiz which is graded on completion and you will have 2 days to complete this, and every week you will have a homework assignment that is graded on accuracy. Most Attendance Quiz, Lecture Quiz, and Homework will be given a video solution after they are due. Now outside of this Santugini will post practice questions that he doesnt post solutions too (you can DM him while working on it for questions/feedback) but they can be possible exam questions. From this as you can probably tell there are a lot of resources and assignments to practice, so basically by giving an honest effort by either going to TA office hours or reaching out to Marc there are so many ways to get help when you are stuck. Its important to ask for help early and often as Marc will respond less close to exam day due to more people reaching out.

There are 3 non-cumulative exams and 1 cumulative final but 1 of these get dropped, so you still have wiggle room. I would say the difficulty in his exams comes from the time-crunch, all of the content on them is fair as it is stuff you have seen before in lecture/other assignments. The strategy I would take when preparing for his exams, is compiling a list of all of his assignments, and randomly picking 7-9 of them and simulating a timed exam with those questions and grade yourself after. Understand the set-up and understand what variable you are solving for. Sometimes all of the assignments blend together so it is important you understand what operator is used for each question and why. Get comfortable at algebra and try to see where he uses shortcuts in his videos, usually when i took his exams, I would get caught up in the algebra, so it is important to do problems over and over untill you can do it without worrying about the algebraic mistake. Honestly if you do this you should very comfortably be in the B+/A-/A/A+ range on exams. He will usually add an extra point or two related to bitcoin or his kids performance in sports on exams which over the course of the semester adds up as a half-letter/full-letter grade curve. He also sometimes will lower grade thresholds based on averages

I estimate to do well in his 3010 course you need to be ready to budget 6-10 hours a week outside of lecture to do well. However because of how structured and organized the class is I think following these steps become super doable.