ECON 3020

A cursory examination of previous reviews will reveal that John James graded his first Intermediate Macro class very harshly. However, when I took this class in Spring 2012, he apparently had a change of heart, because the midterms and final were *much* easier than those from his last attempt at teaching this class (I can make this comparison because he let us see the old exams), and I'm fairly positive that people's grades fared better than the 50% B's and C's that his last class received. To give you a taste of the difference, it's worth noting that even though we learned a bunch of equations throughout the class, the tests never included any meaningful amount of math, and the final was multiple choice, with no math whatsoever. Also there was apparently a curve, because I got A's on both midterms and then a D on the final -- and still my overall grade was an A-. I suspect that the curve is more generous depending on how frequently you attend the discussion section, because I have a friend who mostly skipped it and didn't receive as dramatic of a curve.

Horrible class. So boring. Tests are incredibly hard, too many ambiguous true/false questions (lost around 30 points out of 100 just on those questions).