Average number of Psets?

anon89723960
Sun, 09 Dec 2012 04:49:15 +0000

Ok, this explains why my son’s 18.100A class has seemed a bit, uh, overwhelming. The teacher did indeed give psets before every class; thus, there were 25 due. Not sure how many exams or anything else.



From my understanding, 18.100A is run more like a high school class, in that you get daily assignments (and weekly short quizzes) that are not the deeply theoretical problems you get in most pset-based classes at MIT.

A quick check of OCW seems to confirm this - the problems in that class, in the past at least, were taken from the text book. That’s very rare at MIT, since text books often just have you straightforwardly piece information from a chapter together to solve problems.