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Professor Mazzocco is really funny and I am so lucky that my TA Vitaly Titov is very helpful. Lectures are often funny but econ is boring on the large scale. so I'll skip lectures sometimes to get more sleep lol. I really do think dis sessions are more important than lectures because of the handouts Vitaly gives out every time we meet. His handwriting is a little bit hard to understand though. He is very smart and always get the answer before any of us and he can simply see the answer sometimes like magic haha. 2 midterms and final, just like any usual class. There are 2 review sessions before each exam and the helpfulness of those review sessions depends highly on the TA who teaches them. Sometimes it's very good and sometimes it's pretty bad. Professor posts hw every Wednesday and you don't need to turn in when there is a exam on Thursday (exams are usually on Thursdays XD). Hw takes up 10% of the final grade. 2 grading methods: <1> 30% for 3 exams; <2> 40 for the higher midterm and 50 for final. He takes the higher grade out of these 2 methods. Our first midterm is crazy, more than 200 people get the grade over 90 and professor says the better the class do, the better the curve will be :) He posts his slides and his notes, too, which is very good when you do not feel like going to lectures cause you will not miss out much. Definitely recommend to take him for Econ 11 !

I think Mazzocco is the best professor that teaches Econ 11. The material is somewhat challenging but he is a great teacher and provides students with all they need to be successful. I studied the previous exams and ended up getting As or Bs on the midterms and Final. As for the TAs, I wouldn't go to my discussion or my TAs office hours, because Galluzzi was just that good.

Take this class with Mazzocco if you can.

He's a really good and engaging lecturer of material that can sometimes be very dry. Slides are posted after lectures, which is nice and very useful for the homework, but he never uses the textbook, so save yourself the $100. Homework is fair and not too challenging. Exams are also fair, but all three were fairly challenging, but Mazzocco posts every exam from the last six years for you to prepare with, which is really useful. He'll also drop the lowest midterm if you do better on the other two exams. Mazzocco's also very accessible and helpful during office hours, and for some reason, almost no one shows up, so you're able to talk to him one-on-one. Having a good TA is also very helpful. I had Vitaly Titov, who was excellent, though having gone to all of the TA-led review sections, that might've been an exception. One last note, the class is extremely competitive and curved, so make sure you don't fall behind. Overall, Mazzocco does a good job teaching, and is a good choice for Econ 11.

BEST PROFESSOR EVER! Engaging, smart, helpful, clear... everything you'd want in a professor. TAs--for the most part-- were really good too!

This class is difficult in general. Teacher uses slides but they don't necessarily help with homework since the slides are very generic, but still contribute. Try to get a good TA because that's what will really help you in the class. My only complaint would be the final. He gives previous finals (and midterms) to study for the tests from every year since 2010, however the finals previously given were SO much easier than the one given this quarter. Midterms consist of 10 conceptual multiple choice and 3 free response math questions with multiple parts. Yes there is a curve depending on how the class does as a whole. He will drop your lowest midterm if you do better on the final and the other midterm.

Textbook is useless, don't get it. Mazzocco reviews all the calculus you need to know during the first few lectures which was very useful for students who have never taken multi-variable calculus before. I had Richard Domurat as a TA and he was extremely helpful, would recommend. All you need to do to study for exams is review the past exams he posts online.

Midterm One Average: 82%
Midterm Two Average: 68%
Final Average: 69%

I got an A on this class.
I agree with the poster below me, Alessio Galluzzi was absolutely terrific as a TA. He made a huge effort to help the students. Mazzocco was also pretty good. His lectures were decent. In my opinion, his tests are optimal for students who understand the intuition behind economic concepts.

As for the slight about international students from the poster below: whose academic inadequacies does your comment really display ?

Mazzocco makes material fun and interesting. His tests are pretty hard as expected in this class and a really annoying thing is the fact that the majority of these econ classes are international students who are extremely good at math. I am not being prejudice or anything, his class is full of students who are prepared well for his class because they have already taken crazy difficult math classes in their home countries so they make the average grade higher.

Anyway, he grades really fairly, IF YOU CAN, TAKE GALLUZZI AS A TA!!! he is seriously amazing.

My advice is, do poorly on one midterm. Do well on another, because he drops the lowest one AS LONG AS IT'S LOWER THAN THE FINAL. So do poor on one midterm. The first midterm was harder than the second, but I think thats just because we didn't know the material as well.

I got a D on the first midterm, a C- on the 2nd, and ended up with a B- in the class, so he does curve very generously because he really does want everyone to do well.

He told us all these funny stories in class which made lecture fun but whats the point of fun lectures when his tests are ridiculous and everyone struggles ?
I retook the class with Prof. Cantu Garcia in Spring and got an A.
Avoid at all costs !