Professor

Marek Pycia

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Easiness 3.5 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Workload 3.4 / 5 How light the workload is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Clarity 4.4 / 5 How clear the professor is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Helpfulness 4.6 / 5 How helpful the professor is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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March 2, 2011
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Professor Marek may have taught me some of the most practical lessons I'll learn in my undergraduate education at UCLA. We dealt with optimal purchasing strategies in auctions and matching mechanisms in practical situations: from Ebay, to the system residents go through when being paired with hospitals. He's a laid back professor who made the concepts easy to understand. If nothing else he opened my eyes to the many more problems I've been navigated through using these systems. I'd suggest him to any student.

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June 13, 2017
Quarter: Spring 2017
Grade: N/A

I took this class Spring of 2017 and enjoyed this class overall. The professor does a pretty solid job making the lecture engaging and tying the content to real life scenarios. Both the professor and all the TA's want you to succeed in the course and are great teachers. The content isn't particularly difficult either, but does get harder during Week 8 and 9 because of all the fractions.

The first half of the class focuses on different matching mechanisms while the second half focuses on auctions.

Grading Breakdown:
30% Max {Midterm, Final}
30% Max {Group Essay, Final}
10% Max {Presentation, Group Essay, Final}
30% Final

So yes you technically only need to take the final. Everything else is pretty much insurance if you screw up on the final. But be aware that the final content and the test itself was harder than the midterm (which was super easy). Also everyone did super well on the midterm so I'd recommend not just taking the final.

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ECON 106G
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March 2, 2011

Professor Marek may have taught me some of the most practical lessons I'll learn in my undergraduate education at UCLA. We dealt with optimal purchasing strategies in auctions and matching mechanisms in practical situations: from Ebay, to the system residents go through when being paired with hospitals. He's a laid back professor who made the concepts easy to understand. If nothing else he opened my eyes to the many more problems I've been navigated through using these systems. I'd suggest him to any student.

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ECON 106D
Quarter: Spring 2017
Grade: N/A
June 13, 2017

I took this class Spring of 2017 and enjoyed this class overall. The professor does a pretty solid job making the lecture engaging and tying the content to real life scenarios. Both the professor and all the TA's want you to succeed in the course and are great teachers. The content isn't particularly difficult either, but does get harder during Week 8 and 9 because of all the fractions.

The first half of the class focuses on different matching mechanisms while the second half focuses on auctions.

Grading Breakdown:
30% Max {Midterm, Final}
30% Max {Group Essay, Final}
10% Max {Presentation, Group Essay, Final}
30% Final

So yes you technically only need to take the final. Everything else is pretty much insurance if you screw up on the final. But be aware that the final content and the test itself was harder than the midterm (which was super easy). Also everyone did super well on the midterm so I'd recommend not just taking the final.

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