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).

If I had the chance to go back and re-plan my schedule, I would not have taken Econ with Patrick Convery. I think that the material that was taught was interesting but his lectures are extremely boring (and pointless because he puts the lectures up online) and he just reads off the slides. There is no homework in his class but there are suggested reading assignments that no one really does (but I found them helpful because Convery was not helpful at all). There are 2 midterms each worth 25% of your grade and the final that's worth 50% of your grade. I didn't do that well on the fist midterm and when I went to go see him to talk about what I did wrong and to go over the concepts, he didn't really answer my questions and I found the other meetings I had with him were unhelpful. The TA's for this quarter were all very unhelpful and the only recommendations that Convery gave to me was to get a tutor (who cost $70/hour). He also purposefully said that he would make the second midterm and final harder so that there was a larger distribution in terms of grades amongst the class.

I would suggest not to take Econ 1 with Convery and spare yourself the tears and stress.

I am not sure if all these people took the exams online (or just exceptionally smart) but they're harder than his practice problems. I suggest finding some extra practice material online. The first midterm was easier than the second one, so work hard on that material since the final focuses a lot on the material from midterm 2. Try to make a good cheat sheet with all the graphs.

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.

I suggest doing or at least looking at /all/ of the practice problems (not just the highlighted ones) on the free response and multiple choice questions that the TA's and Convery give out. Tests are extremely fair and straight forward. Excel projects don't take too much time.

Only slight complaint with that some of the practice questions have a fair amount of errors.

This was the most straight forward class I have taken as an econ major. Copy the slides (either in lecture or on your own), do the homework problems he highlights, know the practice exams inside and out, and take the tests. He even allows cheat sheets in the exam which is very helpful. The exams are very fair and mirror the type of questions you find on the practice exams and in the homework problems. The group projects in lab are graded on a credit/no credit basis so there's no need to stress if it is perfect or not, just put in effort with your group. I was worried about taking this class based on the reviews before, but Convery must have revamped the class because I thought it was a very useful class and not too demanding of my time. I highly recommend.

excellent teacher. best econ professor i've had at UCLA. can be a bit dry, but he's very straightforward