I had Professor Rojas for Econ 1.

Overall, his class is taught very well. He puts all the information on the powerpoints online, so it is not a big deal if you miss class. That being said, I'd recommend going to class whenever possible.

His tests are straightforward and tailored heavily to the homework. Write down any homework questions you don't know, as his tests end up being very similar to the homework problems. Practice tests are also extremely helpful for this class.

He obviously cares about the subjects and the students, and the class isn't very hard. I'd highly recommend him as a teacher.

I only took econ 2 with this guy. I took econ 1 with Mike sproul.

Grade: B+

Mike > Randall. I love Mike

This guy has a quite boring tone. You will often space out or fall asleep.
All the material is on powerpoint which he puts up, but attend lecture for clarification on some of the powerpoint slides.

2 mid terms
1 accumulative final.

final questions are composed of:
30% 1st midterm
30% 2nd midterm
40% new material after midterms.

I give Randall 6.3/10

This is for Econ 41

Professor Rojas is quite a character. Honestly the other reviews are somewhat right, it appears like he is concerned but that is not the case with his tests. I saw previous years and the exams were easy. My friends said take him but I am taking him right now and his averages are not high. He is not flexible about grading and in Econ there is hardly a curve. The department must have told him to make the test hard to weed more people out.

Oh and definitely study the practice exam questions. They are more or less the same format as the real exams. I wish I realized it before the final.

He is a very boring lecturer-- be sure to supplement the lectures with study groups and use AAP to make sure you get an A.

I am taking ECON106V in the summer session and now struggling on my homework. This course involves the usage of some stupid online tool called "connect". It charges me a significant amount of money and the information presented has little to do with what Rojas is teaching in the lecture. I have to read EVERY PARAGRAPH to complete the homework problems. Searching online is even more helpful than staring at the book with no clear examples. Hope I can survive.

**ECON 1**

Professor Rojas goes quite slowly through the material compared to Sproul. He uploads lecture slides online, but I would still recommend attending class. The graphs can become complicated and confusing if you don't hear Rojas explain them step-by-step in person.

The grading is based on 15% homework, 20% midterm 1, 20% midterm 2, and 45% final. The homework assignments are online, and they're great practice! A lot of the exam questions are similar to those in the homework. Each midterm consists of 25 multiple choice questions, and the final has 75 multiple choice. The exams are not terribly hard; if you can get your hands on past exams, that helps a lot! Section is not mandatory and, quite frankly, isn't very helpful.

Overall, it's a relatively straightforward class. Rojas does a good job explaining concepts, and he sincerely cares that everyone understands the material.

*I took econ 1 with him*
Maybe prior to winter 2015, he was great, but since then, I doubted because MindTap is a big problem for him.
His lectures follow the textbooks to correspond with MindTap questions. However, in correspondence with MindTap, when we were in chapter 6, Pro. Sproul's class has covered chapter 13. Well he is the one to make the exam so this is not a big deal. He is good at explaining stuff and reading textbook can make you succeed in understanding the material. Basically, you don't need to go to lecture if you have the book, and you don't need the book if you go to his lecture.
Here comes the shit. Online code is needed to access to MindTap in order to do and submit. The code is around $120 and the book is around $140. IT IS NOT WORTHY! Also, MindTap processess very slowly. If you focus yourself on the homework without any distraction, MindTap will cost you 2 times more than doing paper homework because this website processes slowly. The WORST is that after midterm, the time homework is posted and due is unpredictable because everything is a mess.
I will recommend him when he is not using any online technique to "help study".

I think Rojas stinks. I took him for Econ 41 awhile back, and took him for 106V last quarter.

Econ 41 was terrible. The lectures were dry, basic, and a waste of time. I stopped going. The TAs stunk, the orange textbook was horrible, and I ended up depending on AP Stats knowledge. He posted old midterms, and I crammed the night before and regurgitated the answers because the tests ended up being nearly identical. But according to the more recent reviews below, this doesn't seem like this is the case for his Econ 41 class anymore. Also, his final was impossible. He teaches this class out of the scope of what it should be, and a lot of the methods are outdated. Using tables for different distributions has been totally obsolete for the past ~30 years. This class doesn't prepare you for 103 at all because it is taught in a stupid, time wasting, overly rigorous way.

106V was slightly less crappy, but again, if you want to actually learn to invest, you're better off teaching yourself than putting yourself through this class. Once again, Rojas may know the theory behind things, but I find it hard to have someone teaching a class like INVESTMENTS. Once again, just regurgitated the powerpoints and the HW back onto the tests and got an A. Math 141 is a much better class.

Having him teach 3 Econ classes every quarter as a Physics/Stats PhD (admittedly, some of the Econ classes he teaches are are just stats) just goes to show you the state of the UCLA Economics department.

I think Rojas is just OK as a professor, at least for Econ 41. I had him for Econ 1 as well, and thought that class was much more straight forward. But I'll talk about Econ 41 instead.

Sure, he has extremely neat hand writing and is very systematic during his lectures, but I was bored to death the whole time.

If you don't have a Stats background, I feel like you'll be in a for a tough time. His notes are basic and the examples he gives are easy. This, mixed with the atrocious textbook, in which he assigns practice problems out of, made it hard for me to learn own my own. I went to a few different TAs and none of them were that great, and they grade pretty harshly.

The previous midterms he gave us to practice were a lot easier, and the midterm practice problems were not even that related to the actual tests. You will also be in trouble if your Calc isn't up to par.

I thought the first midterm was about average difficulty, second midterm was harder but I did much better because it was mostly calc, and I thought the final was pretty ridiculous. The biggest issue on the midterms for me was the time restriction.

Overall, Rojas is not bad, but not great for Econ 41. I heard he is very good for 103 though.