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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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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.