This class was one of the most interesting and useful classes that I have taken at UCLA. Granted, it does have a fairly heavy workload with a significant amount of work in R. However, I took this class at the same time as Econ 104 and thought I was prepared enough for the R work. Just be prepared to spend some long hours working on projects.

As a person who aspires to work in finance, I highly recommend this class. The topics covered are very applicable to real-life quantitative analysis in the field and Rojas has some very interesting lectures and anecdotes he shares in class.

To do well in this class just make sure you passed Econ 103 and found R not too challenging (although I think anyone should be able to learn R quickly), are ready to spend a solid amount of hours on projects, and study the past midterms/finals thoroughly for the tests!

If you’re taking Econ 1, definitely take it with another professor. I came out of every lecture confused, but if I went over the lecture slides on my own it was much easier. He makes everything way more confusing than it has to be and his class is fully based on two midterms and a final, which you need to be able to be good at answering weird questions, not just understanding the material. The class average for the midterms and the final ranged from a C- to a C+.
Thankfully, he curved it a bit at the end because a lot of people didn’t do too well. I feel like I understood most, if not all of the material that was taught in the class, but the professor made the class way more complicated than it had to be.

I personally did not find the class to be that difficult or time consuming, just somewhat annoying. Anyway, some notes:
- The class is 100% exams for your grade: 25% x 2 midterms, and 50% final, which is pretty brutal. What makes it worse is all exams are completely multiple choice, and every single question you missed on the midterm was 1% of your grade lost (25 questions on midterms), and final a little less (70 questions).
- Exam questions were mostly pretty straightforward, though just a time crunch. Each exam did have a more than a couple curveballs that were a little weird though, and especially with the midterms, I felt like some questions were almost repeated, so you could have double jeopardy if you forgot one concept.
- The professor held lectures in-person with a zoom stream, but did not record them. However, he posted slides, which I found to be useful and was my primary study tool. Memorize how to identify the areas on the Price-Quantity graph, how the supply/demand curves move, how ceilings/floors/taxes/tariifs/whatever move the Price and Quantity of a product, as well as the 10 or so formulas that come up throughout the course, like midpoint price elasticity of demand, and you're good for most of the exam questions.
- As part of the course, there's an inclusive access "homework" (Mindtap) that costs like $75 where the professor assigns optional homework. However, THEY ARE NOT REALLY OPTIONAL! Some questions on the exams were copy-pasted directly from Mindtap, including some more tricky ones, and they generally were in the style of the exam questions. It was pretty clear that some people did not since in the groupme, people were trying to cause a riot over a question that was directly ripped from the homework - don't be like them and just get the points at the start. Mindtap and the previous exams that the professor posted for the midterms were my study tools for the exams.
- The professor stated that he will not downcurve, but will only curve the class upward to match the average at 80% if the average is below that. For this class, the overall average was around 75%, and everyone had around 5% added to their grade before translating to letter grades.

The professor essentially just reads off slides which are generally not that helpful in regard to the exams. Additionally, your entire grade is comprised of 3 exams - two midterms and a final. The practice exams he gives are significantly easier than the actual exams & thus are fairly useless for practice. Further, the class average for the final was 74.4%. The only possible way this could be fair is if a significant curve was added to each exam.

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