I cannot recommend this professor. You can tell he's really passionate about the material, but I felt lost the whole quarter. I bombed the first midterm and got a 58 but the class also did pretty bad (better than me the avg was maybe mid-60's) and I felt like the material couldn't have prepared me any less. For the final it was a bit more reasonable and the average was higher. He released an additional practice Final a couple nights before the test and it ended up being very similar. This prof also gives HW which is nice to have a little grade cushion. Overall, the class is passable but you might live in fear for the whole quarter, i know i did.

The professor is newer to teaching, and clearly is still finding his feet in that aspect. He is clearly very intelligent and is passionate about what he teaches. I would slightly recommend this class, because although he is unclear and confusing at times, he's by no means as bad as people make him out to be. His tests are fair, and look almost identical to the practice exams he gives. Do not shy away from him as a professor, you will do well as long as you put in the effort and study consistently.

Do not take this class. Felt like a harder Econ 11. Material is a very tough grasp and lectures are very hard to follow and disorganized.

Everyone is exaggerating. You don’t even learn any new math in this course; it just lightly applies concepts from Econ 11. The lectures move at a reasonable pace, and I probably spent around only five hours a week studying. I didn’t bother going to the discussion sections; the TAs often explained material the professor never covered and never tested on. Just take solid lecture notes and work through the practice exams. It’s a good course for building an understanding of how macroeconomic theory works using a single model that gets applied repeatedly. Prof. was also great.

His lectures are often unorganized and unclear this is largely a self study class with GPT doing lots of the teaching. I did not go to most classes after the beginning and ended up doing well in the class. The class is math heavy and his practice/solutions are confusing in explaining that. He does have a fair system in terms of grading and homework but the material is quite hard grasp.

I think this class is being reviewed a little too harshly. Yes this class is more focused on the derivation of macro equations and he doesn't allow a cheat sheet on his exams, but he does give them to you on the test and so far I haven't had an issue with the way he teaches. He can go off topic and maybe try and correct himself with how he wants to explain something. But his practice test and homework sets resemble what the exams will look like.

honestly just unbelievably terrible :(

worst professor i've had at ucla by far- cannot teach, doesn't explain the math or inituition whatsoever, random tangents, extremely monotonous, the problem sets match nothing mentioned in lecture......definitely do not recommend if you want to learn

terrible

One of my worst classes. I nearly walked out of the final and, in hindsight, wish I had. The professor mainly read off the slides and didn’t work through example problems. If you’re going through a tough time, avoid this class. I would not recommend him.

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