The class is structured with all multiple choice exams being 2 midterms (30% of grade each) and a final (40%). No additional assignments, but he provides practice questions that are pretty similar to the exam questions. If you put in the effort to make a good cheat sheet all of these exams are pretty easy, almost all of the exam solutions can be found in the material he provides, only a handful of questions the entire quarter require application of concepts. Content gets moderately harder after the first midterm but definitely a class that you can cram for a few days before each exam and get a good grade in the class. Would definitely take again, probably one of the easiest econ electives at UCLA.

Highly recommend this elective w/ Convery. He lectures in a very straightforward way and often ties in current events to the class material, so I actually learned something useful. Recorded lectures (although he might stop recording after this quarter), two midterms, one final, and you can use a cheatsheet for all of them. The exams are easy as long as you put in effort into your cheatsheet and run through the practice tests he gives out.

The midterm was pretty easy, but the final was deathly hard. Don't get negligent in preparing for the final like I did by becoming overconfident with how the midterm went. Convery's lectures weren't structured very well, but he is pretty helpful and clear when asking individual questions either during his OH or after classes.

Convery's one of my favorite professors and this class was as straightforward as econometrics gets. However, don't do what I did and underestimate the final. The final was like three times harder than the midterm.

I am a math major so take that as you will in terms of how difficult I found this class. But morale of the story, put in the effort, and you WILL do well. This class is basically stat, and for me was not hard. Having a super basic understanding of stat (t/z scores, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing), will fly you through the first 5 weeks. It’s all very very doable. Everything you’re asked to do on exams come from lectures or homework’s. I promise. And you’re allowed a note sheet which was great for formulas/graphs. The homework’s are harder than class, yes, but you have so much time to do them, the TAs will literally do the problems for you in office hours, and you are graded on completion. And solutions come out the day after its due. So in that regard, as long as you’re willing to go to office hours I swear you can figure this stuff out. I loved the way convery taught this class. Very straightforward, no BS, with applications and tons of examples in class. He still recorded his lectures which saved me since this was an 8am for me. Convery is understanding and changed some stuff around because of the TA strike, and was overall very accommodating. I went to his office hours a couple times, he’s very helpful and overall just a nice genuine guy. He definitely has this class down on lock, teaches it very well. Discussions were super helpful until they stopped because of the TA strike, but were really great. Grading: homework was based on completion so basically everyone got 100, midterm average was an 89, final average was a 69. I believe he curved. Don’t worry you will do well!! Just put in the effort and it will pay off!

Money and Banking is a challenging course with a lot to cover. As a result, Dr.Convery did not have enough time to review the material thoroughly. Tests are hard. Despite all of these, he gives a generous curve.

I'd say his exams were pretty easy in content; the questions were just written in weird language that makes it hard to decipher wtf I'm supposed to be finding. I also find the topic very interesting in itself, but Convery was a meh lecturer imo. He glossed over many of the example problems' solving process, and much of the understanding for me had to come from the textbook.

If you want a decent grade, this class is probably not bad. If you want to really learn econometrics, I would focus more on the textbook, not the lectures.

If I had the chance to go back and re-plan my schedule, I would not have taken Econ with Patrick Convery. I think that the material that was taught was interesting but his lectures are extremely boring (and pointless because he puts the lectures up online) and he just reads off the slides. There is no homework in his class but there are suggested reading assignments that no one really does (but I found them helpful because Convery was not helpful at all). There are 2 midterms each worth 25% of your grade and the final that's worth 50% of your grade. I didn't do that well on the fist midterm and when I went to go see him to talk about what I did wrong and to go over the concepts, he didn't really answer my questions and I found the other meetings I had with him were unhelpful. The TA's for this quarter were all very unhelpful and the only recommendations that Convery gave to me was to get a tutor (who cost $70/hour). He also purposefully said that he would make the second midterm and final harder so that there was a larger distribution in terms of grades amongst the class.

I would suggest not to take Econ 1 with Convery and spare yourself the tears and stress.

Econ is just a dry subject, so I can't really blame Convery for this class being terrible--I don't really know how you can teach Econ with pizzazz or make it seem engaging and fascinating. Convery is a very nice guy and more than willing to help you--he met with me outside of class, always emailed me back, and hooked me up with a tutor. But yeah--I had to get a tutor for this class, because I was doing that badly.
The lectures are dry and dull, and all of his slides go up online so you don't really have to go to class anyway. I think I would have done better if I had just worked out of the textbook and done example problems from there, because his slides don't really help you learn how to do the mathematical problems you later see on his exams. Convery is great about providing practice problems--he puts up problem sets for every chapter that is covered, as well as provides sample midterms and finals for you to work on (all with answers included). He holds review sessions before each test--which were of no use to me, but maybe some people got more out of them. It's really not Convery that makes this class bad--econ just sucks tbh.
Anyway, class is 25% midterm 1, 25% midterm 2, 50% final. He curves the class at the end of the quarter, so here's to hoping I end up on the right side of the curve because I could go one way or another. If possible, I would recommend you check out one of Convery's lectures and one of Sproul's and then decide whose class to take depending on who seems more engaging. I wish I had done that, maybe Sproul's style would have worked better for me.

Convery is extremely nice and is a genuinely nice guy. However, be prepared for 10 full weeks of him and his terrible TAs reading off of generic slides for an hour and a half 2x per week. Don't go to lecture, don't go to discussion. It's just rehashing a collection of slides that the textbook company provides to him. It's a snoozefest for the entire quarter, so be warned.