Highly recommend this elective w/ Convery. He lectures in a very straightforward way and often ties in current events to the class material, so I actually learned something useful. Recorded lectures (although he might stop recording after this quarter), two midterms, one final, and you can use a cheatsheet for all of them. The exams are easy as long as you put in effort into your cheatsheet and run through the practice tests he gives out.

The midterm was pretty easy, but the final was deathly hard. Don't get negligent in preparing for the final like I did by becoming overconfident with how the midterm went. Convery's lectures weren't structured very well, but he is pretty helpful and clear when asking individual questions either during his OH or after classes.

Convery's one of my favorite professors and this class was as straightforward as econometrics gets. However, don't do what I did and underestimate the final. The final was like three times harder than the midterm.

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!

Money and Banking is a challenging course with a lot to cover. As a result, Dr.Convery did not have enough time to review the material thoroughly. Tests are hard. Despite all of these, he gives a generous curve.

Took ECON 106F with Professor Convery last quarter. He is a really nice guys, always willing to help you during OH and really makes an effort to help you learn the material. The class lecture were pretty well organized, most of the material mirrored the textbook, so much so that the pp were actually from the book's publisher with some alterations made by the professor.
Overall the grades material were distributed: 20% data case, 20% midterm 1, 20% midterm 2 and 40% final. The exams were very fair and straight forward. If you went to class, read and understand the slides fully and did the practice problem, the exams were very straight forward (you actually dont really need to read the book except for the data case). The data case were long problem sets from the back of the chapter, there were 4 in total (5% each) and we ad ample time to do it.
The only problem was that there were major issues with the problem set and solution that he posted. The formatting became really weird and there were numerous mistakes in them (as well as many of the answers were very convoluted). I dont blame the professor for this because it was his first time teaching the course and these problem set were from the publisher themselves so hopefully next time he would fixed this. Also, for the one of the midterm, there were MAJOR issues with the grading. One of the TA was basically clueless and literally marked the exam all wrong. In some question where the question was answered perfectly correct, she gave me 0 point but luckily the professor fixed this so it was alright. Most people (and sure more than 50% of the class) had to ask for regrades and in most case got back a huge chunk of points (I actually felt really bad for the professor because he had to regrade all the exams himself one-by-one).
Overall, really enjoyed this class. I would say it was one of the more interesting 106 and the material was very straightforward. I would definitely recommend it to all BizEcons (and Econs).

This class honestly wasn't very memorable but would recommend for a low stress Econ elective. There wasn't that much content to the class and he always ended class like 15 minutes early. Convery is a very nice man but his lectures are very boring and it doesn't help that they're at 8 am. He stopped recording his lectures this quarter but he posts the notes and he usually just reads off the notes for lecture but occasionally mentions important things to focus on. There are 2 midterms and a final and you get one cheat sheet for each midterm and 2 cheat sheets for the final. This class is definitely one that you can cram for.

Econ is just a dry subject, so I can't really blame Convery for this class being terrible--I don't really know how you can teach Econ with pizzazz or make it seem engaging and fascinating. Convery is a very nice guy and more than willing to help you--he met with me outside of class, always emailed me back, and hooked me up with a tutor. But yeah--I had to get a tutor for this class, because I was doing that badly.
The lectures are dry and dull, and all of his slides go up online so you don't really have to go to class anyway. I think I would have done better if I had just worked out of the textbook and done example problems from there, because his slides don't really help you learn how to do the mathematical problems you later see on his exams. Convery is great about providing practice problems--he puts up problem sets for every chapter that is covered, as well as provides sample midterms and finals for you to work on (all with answers included). He holds review sessions before each test--which were of no use to me, but maybe some people got more out of them. It's really not Convery that makes this class bad--econ just sucks tbh.
Anyway, class is 25% midterm 1, 25% midterm 2, 50% final. He curves the class at the end of the quarter, so here's to hoping I end up on the right side of the curve because I could go one way or another. If possible, I would recommend you check out one of Convery's lectures and one of Sproul's and then decide whose class to take depending on who seems more engaging. I wish I had done that, maybe Sproul's style would have worked better for me.

Convery is extremely nice and is a genuinely nice guy. However, be prepared for 10 full weeks of him and his terrible TAs reading off of generic slides for an hour and a half 2x per week. Don't go to lecture, don't go to discussion. It's just rehashing a collection of slides that the textbook company provides to him. It's a snoozefest for the entire quarter, so be warned.

I am beyond surprised after reading other comments on this class and the professor, I guess this just shows everyone is different. I would never recommend this class to others. It is useful, but not in the way the professor teaches. He reads lecture slides, and reads formulas without explaining. For his practice homework, they are usually 70 pages long. Yes, he said you dont need to do all of it. but who knows which of those questions will actually be on the test? then you ended up having to do all of it just because what if you missed something. Then, his practice questions, and his practice exams are often full of mistakes. His actual midterms are often really bad: after taking both midterms, we realized that for some multiple choices, the right answers were not even listed as a choice. I don't know if he curved them. He would suqeeze in all materials two days before exam and expect you to do all the question on practice tests and homework (70 pages long)_. the tests are a lot harder than his lectures. you don't need his lectures to do his tests. you need to do his practice exams to do his tests.