ECON 3010

If you genuinely put in the work the class will not be too hard. In this course, you are largely relying on calculus (specifically derivations and partial derivatives) to complete the work. I think how she taught was helpful to me.

The class has three exams (25% each), quizzes for each lecture (10%), homework due every week (10%), and a professional career development component or PANE (5%). The PANE category is an easy 100%. As for the other, if you try, you can get a good grade. For the lecture quizzes, I went either to her or my TA to check over them and basically got perfect scores on each assignment.

I will say though many of the homework assignments are not something you can do on your own in my opinion. In each discussion session, the TA would always give us hints or flat-out solve most of the hw for us. She did say they were made to be hard and you won't necessarily find problems like it on the exams. I would say still go to office hours so you know what is going on. Before each exam, there are extra credit homework sheets that I think are important to do because it not only gives you more practice but you can gain back points you earned.

The tests are not cumulative, and if you sit for all 3 tests, you do not have to take the final. To study for the exams, go over lecture quizzes, discussion problems, and examples done in class. This will most likely be the things you see on the exam. After the first exam, she started giving us extra credit problems where points could be added back to the lecture quiz category.

In all, I think this class was very informative and you could easily get an A if you put in the work. My advice is to GO TO LECTURE and PRACTICEE. She did not post the completed slides so if you don't know anyone, you probably won't get the slides unless you ask. Practicing problems honestly helped me because at times it could get confusing. After all, what is being asked is similar to other concepts. I ended the class with an A- and I think this was due to my work ethic.

I'm going to try to be as fair and balanced as possible in this review, keeping in mind that Kripalani is a first year professor at UVA. This means she realistically does not have the freedom to structure the course however she wants, and has to match her grade distribution with that of Santugini's class, which is designed to have a 3.0 average.

About my experience with her in this course:
1) At the beginning of the semester, I felt as if the lecture slides did not have math problems that accurately reflected the exam. She asked us for feedback on her teaching after the first exam, however, and this improved dramatically + she gave a more step-by-step approach to solving problems which I think helped our class a lot. She was very receptive to feedback which I appreciated.
2) She is overwhelmingly fair, more so than she needs to be. She insisted that we all submit regrade requests and that it will likely only help us (I don't remember if she said it definitely can't hurt us or not, so I'm throwing in the "likely"). I got 8% back on exam 2 and 9% back on exam 3 through regrade requests, and it took my final grade from a C/C+ to a B (haven't received final grades yet, if there is a curve it might end up being a B+) I'd like to note that a lot of these were not from grading errors, and that she told us to argue for points and that if we have a compelling case she will consider it.

Advice for this class:
1) You cannot skip class and expect to do well. If you have an ipad, I'd highly recommend downloading and annotating the slides, she posts unannotated slides on canvas and it's hard to follow along if you only have paper notes.
2) Do ALL of the extra credit. My lecture quiz average was well over 100%, and it saved my ass in this class.
3) Go to your TA's office hours before every homework assignment. Homeworks take time and are hard, and the TA's are amazing. My advice is honestly to do homeworks on your own because it's hard to understand everything when you're in a group imo, but ymmv.
4) Submit regrade requests. She made it very clear that she wants us to-- I didn't for the first exam because I felt like I would be annoying, but I wish I had, it probably cost me the difference between a B+ and a B.
5) Talk to her after class if you have questions, she's super kind and will help.

This class was hell, but I learned a ton.

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She laid out all the course material in a very effective way. The course was basically set up with 3 midterms (the third was on the last day of class) that were worth 25% each. The lecture quizzes were after every lecture and were 10% of your grade. Weekly homeworks were 10% of your grade. 5% came from career related activities (linkin profile, attending career event, resume...). After the first midterm she began to offer random assignment for extra credit that came from lecture that ended up being very helpful. She also was very accesible and was very good about office hours before exams where she would go through lots of students questions that I found to be extremely helpful. While the exams were not extremely difficult, there were certain things (cases, graphs, parameters) that you really needed to remember that sometimes were difficult to memorize before the exam. She did make the exams so that you could essentially get partial credit for setting up problems,etc. She also offered extra credit questions on exams that were helpful. However, my TA was not great and Kripalani would give us problems to do in discussion that would teach us some more concepts from lecture but my TA was not good at explaining any of them so I felt at a disadvantage because of my TA.