Bernardo S Silveira
Department of Economics
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4.4
Overall Rating
Based on 30 Users
Easiness 3.2 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 4.3 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 3.8 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 4.4 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
March 26, 2021

I would say that Professor Silveira is one of the better professors in the econ department. His lectures are concise and even though we covered a lot of topics, they weren't too hard to learn. However, the exams are definitely harder than usual, but this seems to be a trend for all econ classes during the pandemic unfortunately. Problem sets also take a really long time and sometimes cover things that we didn't learn so it took a while to figure all the problems out. But this is overall a good class and I'm glad that the prof made the online learning go pretty smoothly.

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Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: P
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
March 19, 2021

LECTURES:
- Lectures were prerecorded and posted about 2 days before the lecture day. You're expected to watch the lectures before actual lecture days. You will be provided PPT lecture notes, and only need to write in the margins for some things.
- "QnA sessions" (similar to office hours) take place on lecture days, where you submit questions in a webinar-format. He ends class on-time, not a second over.
- Downside: You can't see questions other students have posted, thus forcing the professor to sort through duplicate questions in the sea of questions.
- Duration of each prerecorded lecture is (almost) always the exact duration as regular class would be.

EXAMS:
- Grade turnaround is very slow.
- All multiple choice questions (Note: COVID-19, online quarter)
- Two midterms, 1 final exam. If you score better than both midterms on your final exam, he'll drop your lowest midterm.
- Proctored by T.A. over Zoom. Webcam is required.

HOMEWORK:
- 4 problem sets are assigned for a grade. He drops your lowest problem set. 50% of the grade is based on completion. He will pick one of the questions to be graded for accuracy (for the other 50%).
- 3 additional problem sets and solutions are given, 1 just before each exam.
- NO late submission accepted.

COMMUNICATION:
- Uses email to share when prerecorded lectures are posted and when problem sets are uploaded.

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Quarter: Winter 2020
Grade: B+
Aug. 3, 2020

It was a good class. I would've gotten an A if I hadn't misread a question on the final which was actually very easy. Do the TA practice problems as they're essentially the same thing you'd get on the exam.

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Quarter: Winter 2020
Grade: A-
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July 2, 2020

This professor is literally Mazzocco 2.0. His exams were all multiple choice and fairly easy and were very similar to the practice exam. He made Econ 101 one of the easiest econ classes I've taken but I messed up the midterms because I had other obligations and took them essentially with Econ 11 knowledge only. He also gives out grades based on cutoffs instead of using a departmental curve which was clutch. Overall, would highly recommend him. A small complaint is he really does not tolerate side chatter but besides that nothing bad about Bernardo

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Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
March 26, 2021

I would say that Professor Silveira is one of the better professors in the econ department. His lectures are concise and even though we covered a lot of topics, they weren't too hard to learn. However, the exams are definitely harder than usual, but this seems to be a trend for all econ classes during the pandemic unfortunately. Problem sets also take a really long time and sometimes cover things that we didn't learn so it took a while to figure all the problems out. But this is overall a good class and I'm glad that the prof made the online learning go pretty smoothly.

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COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: P
March 19, 2021

LECTURES:
- Lectures were prerecorded and posted about 2 days before the lecture day. You're expected to watch the lectures before actual lecture days. You will be provided PPT lecture notes, and only need to write in the margins for some things.
- "QnA sessions" (similar to office hours) take place on lecture days, where you submit questions in a webinar-format. He ends class on-time, not a second over.
- Downside: You can't see questions other students have posted, thus forcing the professor to sort through duplicate questions in the sea of questions.
- Duration of each prerecorded lecture is (almost) always the exact duration as regular class would be.

EXAMS:
- Grade turnaround is very slow.
- All multiple choice questions (Note: COVID-19, online quarter)
- Two midterms, 1 final exam. If you score better than both midterms on your final exam, he'll drop your lowest midterm.
- Proctored by T.A. over Zoom. Webcam is required.

HOMEWORK:
- 4 problem sets are assigned for a grade. He drops your lowest problem set. 50% of the grade is based on completion. He will pick one of the questions to be graded for accuracy (for the other 50%).
- 3 additional problem sets and solutions are given, 1 just before each exam.
- NO late submission accepted.

COMMUNICATION:
- Uses email to share when prerecorded lectures are posted and when problem sets are uploaded.

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Quarter: Winter 2020
Grade: B+
Aug. 3, 2020

It was a good class. I would've gotten an A if I hadn't misread a question on the final which was actually very easy. Do the TA practice problems as they're essentially the same thing you'd get on the exam.

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Verified Reviewer This user is a verified UCLA student/alum.
Quarter: Winter 2020
Grade: A-
July 2, 2020

This professor is literally Mazzocco 2.0. His exams were all multiple choice and fairly easy and were very similar to the practice exam. He made Econ 101 one of the easiest econ classes I've taken but I messed up the midterms because I had other obligations and took them essentially with Econ 11 knowledge only. He also gives out grades based on cutoffs instead of using a departmental curve which was clutch. Overall, would highly recommend him. A small complaint is he really does not tolerate side chatter but besides that nothing bad about Bernardo

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4.4
Overall Rating
Based on 30 Users
Easiness 3.2 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 4.3 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 3.8 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 4.4 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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