Horrible. Teaches like a robot. Makes you code -- I'm tryna be a business major and work in finance, I don't need to code. Literally need two devices to proctor yourself, including respondus. Studying for the final right now and I'm gonna fail for sure

This class is a joke if you've taken AP Stats; I'm unsure how anyone else is expected to gain an understanding of all the material otherwise. A TI-84 is your ticket to freedom in this class. You won't be taught how to use it, but being able to do all the confidence intervals with the press of a button and quickly calculate distributions will make most of the exams free. The final was, shall I say, strange in comparison to the midterms, which were all quite straight-forward, but it wasn't as bad as everyone else made it seem. It's not like we don't have a textbook and a bunch of homework problems for extra practice, if you need it. Especially if you know how to use your calculator, it isn't that hard to do reasonably well in this class.

Easiest class I took at UCLA. Found out econ majors don't know any math.

I'm a double major in FAM and Econ and was forced to take this class. Easiest A I have gotten at UCLA. Not sure how everyone did so poorly on the tests. If you aren't doing well here is a thought...try to open the book and actually read it. It's amazing. Really incredible.

I studied with several econ majors who were having a hard time when they just actually refused to open the book and read it.

First midterm is the easiest, second is a bit harder, and final is a bit harder than that, but everything is very doable.

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A typical economic class you would expect. 100% of the grading scheme is on the exam: 25-25-50 (two midterms and one final). Prof. Rojas was a good lecturer, in my opinion, but he was sometimes too slow. He did not finish the slides on the last chapter in my quarter, so you can tell that he was SUPER slow. But anyway, the exams were reasonable if you practice on MindTap and the practice exams. MindTap was such a clutch, so use that for the review. I have never taken AP Economics, but the topics were not too challenging to understand. I found the TA office hours extremely helpful, so ask them! After hearing all the bad things about econ classes, this was actually not a bad experience.

Though I did end up receiving an A+ in the class, Rojas' Econ 1 is not exactly interesting. Lectures are kind of mundane, as he reads off the slides basically. I took AP Macro, which correlates to Econ 2, back in high school so I found some of the concepts covered in class very easy to comprehend, which might not be the case for others. There wasn't any work you had to turn in. You basically just had to make sure you fully grasped the materials and do well on the two midterms (25% each) and the final (50%). Rojas does curve if the class average is low. I ended up with A- actually but the curve brought me up to an A+.

Didn't go to a single lecture or discussion and got A+. He posts lectures and slides. Weekly practice problems that you don't have to do because they are not counted for a grade (he doesn't like giving homework grades) and I didn't do a single problem set and was 100% fine. USE MINDTAP!!!!!! It is much more efficient than going to class in my opinion. I got amazing scores on all exams from ONLY STUDYING BY USING MINDTAP. Class is 25% Midterm 1, 25% Midterm 2, and 50% Final. Each midterm is 25 questions. Midterm 1 was EXTREMELY easy, mean score was 21/25, I got 100% and only started learning the content a couple days before. Midterm 2 was slightly more difficult, but scores were just as good, with a mean score of 20/25. Final was 70 questions and a little rough, mean score 50.68/70, I got 62.2/70. He curved the overall class grade because our average was 77% (he won't curve if the overall class grade is a B or above), not sure how much he curved, but my grade went from 92% to A+. Recommend him fs

The Professor just reads of the slides, the practice exams look nothing like the actual exam. Honestly he made me hate economics, he made no sense of it. This quarter he made our entire grade based on exams, which for people that are not good at exam taking does not help, the concepts make sense but he words the questions very poorly. Overall a very bad professor.

I feel like I got totally fucked with the grading scheme this quarter so take this with a grain of salt. Dr. Rojas is a decent lecturer but the grading scheme was very unreasonable IMO. Instead of having HW as part of the final grade like in the past, it was 100% exams (25% midterm 1, 25% 2, 50% final). This was frustrating as hell because just a few mistakes on the exams could totally screw you over and there’s literally no other way to cushion your grade, no HW or extra credit opportunities. Also a lot of my mistakes were a result of Dr. Rojas's extremely poor wording (sometimes it was blatantly wrong but he didn't remove it from the exam). I only scraped by with a B because he curved it VERY generously at the end, I was boosted 3 whole percent.