If you do the textbook problems, this class is not hard. The first half is actually quite easy, but then it picks up at the second half. Usually, the exams are like the weekly problems, but they also pull directly from the textbook.

Set up the same at 1A03 with weekly problems, two midterms, and an exam.

Kratsios is a passionate professor who will teach you a lot about visualizing the math. He is also very funny and will poke fun at his students. But if you just want to pass the course and don't care about visualizing it, his class might feel like a waste of time (by the end of the semester, only about 15 people showed up to his lecture because everyone watched Childs' lecture online).

Watch Dr Child's lectures if you have Kratsios, because Child writes the exams. I knew someone who failed a midterm by studying only what Kratsios taught and not watching Child's lectures.