As a transfer student, this was the first Econ course I take at UCLA(I took Econ11 at another University). I was nervous about this course especially when seeing the previous reviews. However, the professor truly understand everything and he is so neat and clear about explaining concepts. Sometimes I am amazed by the way he solve problems as his brain is moving so fast.

The course has 2 midterm(higher midterm 30% + lower midterm) and 1 final (50%), the median is around a 75 but he does gives a very genrous curve so the median student will receive a B or B+. Make sure to do every single practice problem before his tests(including the ones on lecture slides), no homework and no problem sets weekly, but please don't slack off and don't wait everything until the end. His office hours is also helpful. I got A by doing his practive problems and understand how to do them without looking at the solutions and going to his office hours when needed.
His exams are fair and doable. If you really interested in econ, he is the right choice, you will learn a lot.

Do not take this class!

The grade is 20 percent for the lowest midterm, 30 percent for the highest midterm and 50 for the final. The tests aren't too tough themselves, but they are graded very, very harshly. He is very unforgiving and there isn't much practice. He gives us a few discussion sheets to practice on, and he shows the midterms from the year before (which were much easier than the ones that we had). The final and midterm review sheets were kind of helpful, but not too much. He is a very mediocre professor, and lectures are very boring.

If the practice questions were more like exam questions it would have been reasonable to do well. The only redeeming quality about him is the curve. I got about 5 percent higher than I would have without the curve.

Until now, I think Professor Vogel is pretty good. His slides are clear and organized. His midterm one was easy, and his discussion sessions and homework provided some useful practice questions for this exam. His midterm two is tricky and different from the questions posted on CCLE, but if you read his slides very carefully, you can make it.
Besides, my TA Miss Ariadna is really nice, helpful and knowledgeable. I will recommend my friends to take her discussion.

Okay so the person who wrote the review before this one is clearly bitter about something because let me tell you something this guy is one of the good professors in the Econ department.

He gives practice questions, homework and discussion questions and gives us all his slides. While sometimes his explanations are slightly complicated if/when you read through them again at home it makes sense. He also does try to relate it to simpler examples.

I would recommend Vogel.

Easily the best professor I've ever had. He's great at clarifying concepts, makes the class engaging, cares about student learning, and has straightforward exams. Definitely recommend taking his course.

Vogel is, overall, a good professor. He's very clear during lectures, uploads all the slides, and gives students plenty of resources to succeed in the class. One of his TAs (Ariadna) is amazing, and possibly the best TA I have ever had at UCLA. However, he was not a perfect professor and has many policies that may strike a wrong chord with some students. So read this and consider the flaws of the class if you need to take Econ 101 with him. And if you didn't do too well, I understand where you're coming from, but don't just brush off this review and others because they don't say what you want to see.

I will reflect the sentiment that having Midterm 2 after Thanksgiving break was pretty awful. Additionally, I feel like there was too big a disparity between the difficulty of the first midterm and the two follow-up exams, where the latter two were significantly more difficult to prepare for (although he repeated a question from MT1 on the final). I never really found a problem with his attitude but he does sometimes take jabs at UCLA through his homework questions. I also don't really like the fact that his exams are only a few questions, which can make them unforgiving if you don't know a concept. These are what I would say are the flaws of his class.

But to make up for it, there's plenty of partial credit (edit: yes, you do get partial credit. The second midterm grading was suspect, but overall you will get points for having part of the solution. Not considering boundary solutions is huge; half the work on a given problem that has them is on determining the conditions when the boundary solutions apply) that you can get for setting up the problem in a reasonable way. There's even the possibility of him overscoring one of the problems if you put in extra information about the solution, though I'm not sure if he still does this. Although his exams are short yet difficult, he includes extra problems on the homework to study from and gives solid preparation problems for both midterms and the final. His final review problems were actually very close to what we got on the actual final.

Overall, the class was fair, and Vogel himself is a good lecturer, but if you fall behind, it can be very unforgiving. I was ill-prepared for Midterm 2 and got a 56/100. However, there is always a chance for a comeback if you improve enough, as I still ended up with an A in the class after doing well on the final. If you take this class and don't do too well in the beginning, it's not the end of the world.

Vogel is a very funny guy, and his lectures are fun. However, I didn't really enjoy his class. He doesn't give any homework at all, which sounds nice but is actually frustrating because it means you have to study way more for each midterm/final. Also, he decides to give the second midterm on the very last day of class, which ostensibly helps you study for the final, but really just convolutes things. Maybe this is more of a problem with the material of the class, but the problems just suck to actually complete. They aren't that difficult, but often involve really dense mathematical computation where lots can go wrong on a purely computational front. And he is quite stingy with partial credit, making this even worse. On the first midterm, there was a 9 pt question where I did all of the work exactly correctly, and then accidentally wrote down the answer the wrong way at the very end, and lost all the points. I'm fairly sure this mistake alone was the difference between an A- and A for me, but so it goes.

Vogel is the worst professor I've had at UCLA. As the quarter went on, I really realized how much he simply doesn't care about his students. I never knew what people meant by that until now. He doesn't provide any homeworks or problem sets--he just posts his pasts exams and says to do them. His lectures are not helpful for the tests at all. We do not go over any practice problems in class that even remotely mirror what we are tested on, and the way he teaches does not resonate in any logical way. Concepts were vastly overinflated and made much more difficult than they needed to be. Discussion sections are the most helpful, but this completely depends on your TA. Also, only about 30% of the topics we covered in lecture were discussed in section. There were several topics that he just wrote 10 slides about and never provided practice for, but they'd appear on the tests. He is entirely uncommunicative. On the first midterm, he included a 15 point question that was purposefully included as a curve ball, as he never once mentioned the topic in class. Apparently he discussed it in office hours to select students.

The big kicker was his change the DAY before the final from free response to MCQ with no explanation or warning whatsoever. Almost every one of his past tests were free response, as well as both midterms. Free response for a class like this is absolutely vital. There are so many mathematical steps involved for each concept and the true measurement of learning is if you can set up the problem right, which they had provided very helpful partial credit for in midterm 1 and 2. So, for the final, I ended up getting a grade that did not reflect my knowledge whatsoever due to algebraic errors and unfriendly numbers (he also doesn't let you have a calculator but you'll end up with an answer like (346^1/2)/244, which is just a huge waste of time). To me, this reflects laziness and a general "go fuck yourself" to students who had been working very hard to understand things conceptually.

I have done very well in my past classes at UCLA and like to think I'm a relatively smart person. I don't like to blame my failures on other people, but fuck Vogel.

Vogel made some lectures pretty entertaining, 8.5/10 experience

Vogel was a good lecturer that was entertaining at times. 8.5/10 experience.