Honestly, Professor Hahn isn't as bad as I thought. He tends to digress and elaborate on topics, which for some people can become confusing, but I enjoy his class because the materials are easy to understand. No cheat sheet for midterm or final, but it is durable because it has the least content to memorize out of all the ECON classes I have taken. I was also taking ECON 11 with Surro along with this class. The midterm was way easier than the final, I got 100% on the midterm and got 2 questions wrong on the final. Also, you have to buy the specific type of calculator he wants, which costs about $10 on Amazon. I also have the best TA ever and he helped a lot in summarizing the lecture, clearing up my confusion, and providing additional practice. You will be fine as long as you study, understand the homework problems, and know the concepts well.

Reading previous reviews of this class gave me a false impression of what to expect. I am actually pretty grateful to have had Professor Hahn for 41. His accent is more than manageable, he clearly knows the material inside and out, and his lectures are straightforward and articulate. He did several reviews of material prior to exams.

Aside from studying, I do think who you get for your TA makes the biggest difference in how you perform. My TA just went over homework problems, which pale in comparison to the complexity of exam problems. I ended up bouncing around and found a few TAs that actually deepened my understanding of the material.

For the people who reviewed and said they were curved down, personally I doubt that. He makes it clear in his syllabus that if your raw scores are within a range, you can't be curved down and will still receive an appropriate grade.

All that being said, this class is hard. Very hard. To do well, you MUST have a thorough understanding of the concepts. As in doing the HW problems over and over won't do anything for you as they only help you get a sense for how the theory is applied in practice. It's a theory class, so some thought needs to be put in to how the mathematic mechanics works. Know why the formulas are the way they are, and how to manipulate and apply them to various problems.

After reading a lot of the past reviews, I was a little nervous going into this class due to the fact that if I failed, I would get kicked out of the major. However, as long as you keep up with the lecture material and constantly try the hw problems and practice exams, you'll be fine. I honestly didn't even show up to a lot of the lectures because the slides and lecture notes were good enough. I would say along with memorizing the equations and stuff, the best way to do well on the exams is probably going to be figuring out the simplest way to solve each hw problem and practice exam questions. You'll get similar style questions on the final and midterm just worded differently which might throw you off but I would say the hw and practice exams definetly help.

The professor did not have very clear lectures. He jumped around a lot and his examples weren’t structured like exam problems. The midterm also was not like the practice midterm. There was limited practice material to study, specifically for the midterm, however, for the final he did give 3 practice finals. This class did not need a textbook and I did not get it. There were no cheatsheets allowed on tests and only a specific calculator, the Canon LS 100TS. The grading scheme was 30% midterm 70% final or 5% midterm 95% final and there was no homework. Overall, I did not enjoy this class and I had to teach myself most of the material and study a lot.

This class was very challenging in regards to the material and mentally. While I received an A, I have never studied harder for an exam. Our grade was made up of a midterm (30%) and a final (70%) or just the final (100%). The class average on the midterm was pretty high (around an 87%) so he made the final harder to bring down the class average. Professor Hahn uses the department curve to grade his class, so essentially you are graded based on how well you do compared to your classmates. He ranks you based on how well you do on the midterm and final and then distributes grades based on the department which is 25% A- and above, 35% B- and above, 15% Cs. I would say that the content is relatively difficult but if you attend lecture and do the homework problems it helps a lot. Hahn is a pretty good professor and I thought he was good at explaining things. This course was just mentally exhausting because of its structure and the whole ranking process. This was probably the hardest premajor class I took for business economics. Make sure you stay on top of the homework and to attend TA sessions because they are very helpful. The midterm and finals were both pretty similar to the practice ones he gave, we were just short on time. The midterm was 30 questions in 1 hour and 10 minutes and the final was 51 questions in 2 hours. Make sure you know the content really well because almost everyone ran out of time on the final.

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Hahn is a great lecturer. His exams are well-designed and fair. If he ever teaches this course again, for all you math-econ majors, I definitely recommend.

Didn’t go to class but was basically remedial ap stats plus a bit of stuff like central limit theorem. If you do fine on the practice tests expect to do fine overall. Our final was harder than the practice tests but the class curve seemed accurate.

I didn't enjoy his class very much. Considering that this is basically an introductory stats class, I believe that he didn't do a very good job. Throughout the course he was very condescending and assumed that we wasted our time with any stats class we had taken before his class (such as the Stats AP exam- I think I learned much more from my Stats AP class...). Anyways, despite the fact that it was an 8:00 class, I dragged myself out of be everymorning to go to his dry and repetitive powerpoint lectures. It would take him forever to progress through simple topics, yet would speed through a little more complicated topics. The first midterm was easy, everyone did well, and the second midterm was a joke. He tested us on topics he basically sped through during lecture. I felt that if he was going to give such a significant amount of weight to those topics he should have made sure we knew that. One significant roadblock I encountered was that the topics he emphasized were solely based upon his lectures. The topic was not covered at all in the book. I had the feeling he had given us such a difficult second midterm because so many people had been skipping lecture, although I don't think he should have been so shocked considering it was an 8:00 class. The lecture following the second midterm he said "I can't believe more people aren't here after such a difficult exam", which led me to the conclusion that he purposely made that exam difficult to boost his attendance. My experience with this teacher was less than satisfying and just made me annoyed most of the time. I would suggest trying to avoid his for this class. (As a side note, I got a decent grade in this class and I'm a math person but just didn't like his way of teaching)