I wouldn't recommend this class.

The midterm (30% of the grade) was reasonable and the final was unreasonably difficult. Given that the latter constitutes half of the grade for this course, I can't recommend taking it. The problem sets (20% of the grade) were also difficult as they were mostly content that the professor hadn't covered in lecture.

The difficulty of the testing aside, Dr. Convery doesn't know how to lecture. He goes over a scanned pdf notes and talks over them every single lecture and then expects us to understand. Once in a while he might look over an example problem from the textbook and just talk over it and very briefly explain the steps.

He doesn't do a good job of explaining any lecture content and you have to teach yourself through the problem sets and materials given for the practice midterms and finals. There were a plethora of equations required to solve problems that he never gave us that I was only able to find in the practice materials.

Overall, his lack of teaching ability doesn't allow him to test us as rigorously as he does (many test questions required knowledge of minutia that he mentioned one time and never brought up again), which is why I would not take this class with Dr. Convery again.

This was a pretty useful and easy class, definitely recommend it as a 106 elective.

There were 4 lab projects to be done with a group. They could be confusing at times, but were relatively straightforward as long as you reviewed the prompt thoroughly and pay attention to what he says. They were mostly graded on a completion/try your best basis - my group made reasonable estimates/assumptions when we got confused and scored full credit on all the labs, despite our accuracy being off at times. Just be sure to clearly list out the assumptions you made.

Class is pretty boring and I only went to one session, since they were recorded on zoom for us (due to Covid). He doesn't really add much content besides what's on the slides themselves, although he usually clarifies/elaborates on topics a bit so I would recommend watching every lecture at least once at 2x speed or something.

Exams were based almost exclusively on the practice problems and practice exams he gave us, as well as the example problems in the slides. Review the problems, exams, and slides well and you should be good to go for the exams. Some reviews recommend doing all of the problems rather than just the highlighted ones, but this would take forever since there are so many practice problems. I just did the highlighted ones (in addition to exams + slides) and scored a comfortable A in the class. Exams were a mix of multiple choice and short response, and timing was definitely an issue for me on the midterm, so be prepared to work as fast as possible. For our in-person final (midterm was online), he allowed us to bring one cheat sheet (front and back), which was more than enough space for the necessary formulas and examples.

All in all, pretty straightforward class. He can be unresponsive to emails at times, but he usually responds within a week or so unless the email gets lost in his inbox. TA's were helpful my quarter. You definitely don't need to read through the textbook. A lot of the topics were certainly interesting...for a lot of us it was our first time learning about investing, bonds, loans, valuation, and forecasting. More practical than probably all the other econ courses I have taken here.

Highly recommend this class to all Biz Econ/Econ majors. Professor Convery is extremely knowledgeable on the topics discussed and gives engaging lectures. Tests are straightforward and are fair. Do all the practice questions from the book, not just the highlighted ones, go to lecture, and skim the textbook and you will get a good grade. Go to his office hours if you need help on problems, he is great at individual teaching. The topics discussed in this class are valuable no matter what field you enter, but especially if you go into Finance or Consulting. Highly recommend this class and Professor Convery!

We spent weeks on present value and future value calculations and glazed over the most interesting parts of the content (valuation methods). Convery uses the textbook's slides, and will quickly read them to himself before presenting them. The exams are hard, and often contain errors. Bad professor for interesting material. Convery doesn't even actually have a background in econ/finance, which is probably why his teaching style is so fragmented. Take this class with another professor. Also, the labs are pretty easy - don't bother making a group to work on them together - you can pump them out easily in one hour on your own.

The workload is very doable and the tests are fair. Just review past exams to prepare for the finals.

This class was a pleasant surprise, and I found it to be much better than Econ 1 last quarter. Convery is very straightforward, and goes over real world examples to make the content more applicable. While his lecture delivery is fairly dry, the workload in his class is light with the only weekly deliverables being the homeworks, which are a guaranteed 100%. The midterm and final were identical in difficulty to the homework, and he also offered multiple timeslots to accommodate people in different time zones. Would definitely recommend this professor for anyone taking Econ 2.

Professor Convery is a decent lecturer and explains concepts pretty well. However, sometimes he spent too much time on unnecessary real-world examples that digress from econometrics. The class notes are handwritten and not well made, and I would really appreciate it if he could make slides for this class.

Professor Convery's lectures focus primarily on concepts rather than derivations of statistical formulas. However, his exams base heavily on statistics knowledge and the utilization of formulas. The final is kind of unreasonably hard.

I mean, the final was optional bc of c*ronavirus but honestly, that saved my ass. Was able to go drink instead of studying for finals. 10/10 would recommend.

TERRIBLE CLASS. The professor seems like he does not want to be there and often does not seem like he knows what he is talking about. No slides and nothing is posted, class notes are disorganized and scribbled on pieces of paper. Not approachable. I would take any other econ professor other than him

I am a math major so take that as you will in terms of how difficult I found this class. But morale of the story, put in the effort, and you WILL do well. This class is basically stat, and for me was not hard. Having a super basic understanding of stat (t/z scores, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing), will fly you through the first 5 weeks. It’s all very very doable. Everything you’re asked to do on exams come from lectures or homework’s. I promise. And you’re allowed a note sheet which was great for formulas/graphs. The homework’s are harder than class, yes, but you have so much time to do them, the TAs will literally do the problems for you in office hours, and you are graded on completion. And solutions come out the day after its due. So in that regard, as long as you’re willing to go to office hours I swear you can figure this stuff out. I loved the way convery taught this class. Very straightforward, no BS, with applications and tons of examples in class. He still recorded his lectures which saved me since this was an 8am for me. Convery is understanding and changed some stuff around because of the TA strike, and was overall very accommodating. I went to his office hours a couple times, he’s very helpful and overall just a nice genuine guy. He definitely has this class down on lock, teaches it very well. Discussions were super helpful until they stopped because of the TA strike, but were really great. Grading: homework was based on completion so basically everyone got 100, midterm average was an 89, final average was a 69. I believe he curved. Don’t worry you will do well!! Just put in the effort and it will pay off!