The class consisted of 4 midterms (each 15%), a cumulative final (35%), and weekly quizzes (5%). I recommend this professor because the course is very cheesable and you should be able to get an A pretty easily, provided you have a good background in probability, because MATH 3100 covered most of the first two midterms.

Lectures: For me, these went too fast to be of any use, because I ended up just writing down everything without learning. I ended up not going to any lectures after spring break. However, if you do read the associated textbook section prior to going to lecture, it would be more helpful (what he recommends).

Midterms (HW Tests): The four midterms are meant to pull questions from the weekly non-graded Homework. In practice, most of it are conceptual questions which are a lot easier than the homework because all questions are MCQs.

Final: Same drill as HW Test, but because 3 short-answer questions counted for half the exam, it is actually on the level of the Homework. There were still a lot of layup conceptual questions though.

Quizzes: 2-3 questions every week, open-book

Homework: Not graded, do it if you want

Curve: Offered pretty generous points. You can earn up to 16/15 points on every midterm, use corrections to recover up to 50-75% of points missed on the exam (up to 100%), and a bonus assignment was offered to give you up to 10/65 points on the midterm portion of the course grade. Ultimately though, you are capped at 100% for the midterm portion, and I wish he communicated this clearly because I got blindsided by this two days before the final.

I studied around 4-5 hours for the first and second midterms, and 8-9 for third and fourth (for which I did not go to lecture). Make sure you know how to do each homework problem inside and out, and you will be more than prepared. I scored near 100% for each midterm doing this and going over 100 on the midterm portion of my course grade (again though this is capped at 100%).

Point estimation (covered in third midterm) was the hardest content, though I would say the questions on the midterm was easy, especially compared to the final.

ABSOLUTELY avoid this class. Worst class I've ever taken here at UVA. Class is graded on 5 exams. 4 HW Tests 65% of grade and a final 35% of grade. Final exam was insanely hard, with topics that weren't covered on the HW Tests and on the non graded HW's were on the final and they were worth over 50% of the final.

Prof. Lubberts is bar none the smartest professor I have ever had. He was the ideal professor for this incredibly difficult course. However, no professor will save you from this monster. A good grade is absolutely possible, but prepare for 8+ hour homework assignments and lots of office hours. In its current form, tests are the only graded assignments, and they are all MCQ and based off the homework.