Only people who do not really understand the topics covered in class will struggle with the exams. If you go to lecture, take good notes, and think through the exam then this class is simple.

His enthusiasm for the topic and teaching really shines through.

Coppick is a great lecturer, enthusiastic and funny and is able to keep a 500 person lecture hall engaged. However, his tests are somewhat tricky and even if you know the material you really have to think through questions on the tests. That being said, every test question comes from the lecture so there is no point in reading the book, which is a nice change from Elzinga.

Professor Coppock is a great guy and runs a great class. I would recomend this course to all. Beware final is tricky study hard and dont spend your semester prepared to rely on it, I did and ended up with a B+.

Mr. Coppock has the ability to make the entire hall engage in his lectures and make slides that are straight to the point. Although the exam questions came from different slides and were supposed to be challenging, I sometimes find the questions easy to "guess." The fact that I didn't need to understand everything taught in the class to get an A makes the class less rewarding. But then again, it's probably one of the most popular courses on grounds. Given that, this class was great and I highly recommend it!

Let me first start off on a positive note and say that Zhou Zhang is a great TA I would take it with her again if I were to do the class over. She will make a great econ professor one day.

Now for professor Coppock I really hate how he has a double faced personality. He comes off as a fair, funny, and comforting teacher that you can trust at first but then when the exam comes intentionally(and he has admitted this himself)try's to trump you with hard/tricky questions. These are questions that you cannot prepare for as they are related but not taught in class. His lectures are phenomenal but he falsely leads students to believe that they will be prepared for his unfair exams. Watch out for the final because he uses that as a means to really mess up everyone.

Great lectures that make the material relevant and interesting. As opposed to Elzinga all of the test q's come from his lectures and not Collander. Legendary final exam is as terrible as it is rumored to be.

Great teacher and knows his stuff. Can be a little snotty but overall a good class to take. Tests are difficult but it is a large class so the curve is pretty good

The material was pretty easy, but Coppock makes the exams way too difficult.

if you want to ace the midterm and final, spend more time reading your notes (take good notes!!!), the exams are straight from the slides and lecture. although the slides are helpful when studying, make sure you write down the important things he says. the slides DO NOT cover everything, maybe like half. skim through the textbook if you need to. textbook is somewhat helpful in clarifying lecture but don't let it be the only thing you use to study. zhou zhang is hands down the best ta. she is sooo helpful and great at explaining, get her if you can. good luck :-)