Hahn is a good professor. He's articulate, has a well-organized course structure and makes good effort toward making the subject understandable. His class, as he mentions a lot, is to prepare students for 103, which is great because then he doesn't waste time on ridiculous long mathematical proofs (because why reinvent the wheel) unless there's something to be learned from the proof itself.

That said, the class is no fun. If you know his lecture notes well and if you really understood the practice problems (like 5 every week, which weren't even mandatory), and possess an above-average intelligence level, you'll do well in the class. His exams had really tricky options (like .2896 when the answer was .2986), and seemed time-constrained for a majority of the students, but well, that's when the curve helps. 25% of the top students get some A.

His teaching style is slow and sometimes the lectures seem drab. But it seems like he's one of the easier 41 professors.

Take Hahn. He's nice. And you'll learn some stuff WELL for 103.

Hahn is pretty good. His strictness about his grading scale and test taking methods is a bit bizarre though. Was at the average on the first midterm, and got top 5 on the final, ended up with an A. I attended class the first half of the quarter, and stopped going and never went to discussion and just did the HW problems until I was able to do them without thinking. You need to be able to test quickly, but I never felt like I was in a time crunch. The notes he provides are very thorough, and pretty much have everything you need to know.

Definitely the best professor I've had in the department.

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EXCELLENT lecturer, some people talk trash about him but his tests are EAAASY A street, and his final is pretty nice and fair too. He's a very nice guy, I didn't have to go to office hours but I could tell.

This prof seems to split some people, but he really knows what he's talking about. TAKE HIM, you won't regret it!

Professor Hahn is an excellent lecturer. He's very good at explaining the material and his exams are very fair (plus you can bring cheat sheets, so that makes them easier). He posts the lecture notes online and gives you a list of practice problems at the beginning of the quarter, which is really nice. If he teaches this again, you should take him.

Absolutely fucking awful exams. Professor Hahn is extremely anal about his test taking, and the exams themselves are more a test of time than of the material. some questions are absurdly difficult to do with only a pencil and a canon LS-100TS calculator. cheat sheets are no longer allowed, despite what previous reviews say. terrible professor.

Lectures are boring, but he explains concepts really well, so I force myself to go to all of them, even though it's an 8 AM class. Discussion sections are pretty helpful; the TAs will review homework problems (which are graded and basically free points) and additional practice problems.

To study, go over his lecture slides (it includes material not in the book), review example problems in the textbook, and do all assigned problems. Don't focus too much on his derivations - he hasn't tested on that so far. Just study the formulas and how to apply them.

All his tests are multiple choice, which may or may not be a good thing. His first midterm was cake - the majority of the class got an A, average was 27/30. However, his second midterm was considerably more difficult. He added ten more questions under the same amount of time, plus some of the questions were VERY time consuming. The average for the second midterm was about 26/40. I still did well on the second midterm by learning how to do homework problems really quickly. Also, he lets you bring cheat sheets to every test, so don't waste time memorizing formulas. But note that you can't rely heavily on your cheat sheet if you want to finish the test on time, so try to make your cheat sheet as concise and easily accesible as possible. Overall, good professor for Econ 41.

I agree with basically everything the evaluation below brings up except that I would argue that the majority of the final fell into the ridiculous category rather than the "can do somewhat easily so long as you've done the homework". Also I'm willing to bet you think we're exaggerating on the no one finishing the tests thing but not. a. single. person. walked out early or admitted to coming close to finishing. I hope he gets his act together because it did seem like our grade was overly reliant on chance and he used the econ department guidelines to determine curves so they weren't generous. (Meaning, fewer than the 20% cited below got an A so it's not even like he curved our horrible test grades generously.) He's so paranoid about the department I hope he gets called out on his current testing policy so he cuts it out for future students.

Also my roommate, an econ major, swears Rojas was one of the best professors she's ever had so choose as you will.

Easily the worst class I've taken at UCLA. Lectures were unclear and unorganized. Notes had little to do with how the test was run. Studied for at least 50 hours for the final and was still blindsided by most of the questions. Both the midterm and final were incredibly time pressured (200 questions in 2 hours?). Ended up with a B which was not terrible, but haven't had a worse experience with how a class was taught or tested.