Sheng is decent enough. This class requires quite a bit of work. It is important to rework the example questions in the text. Selling nearly brand new textbook for $60.
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DISCLAIMER: I have heard that Sheng now requires homework for Econ 41, but she did not when I was in class.

This class is very easy IF you have experience in stats (AP stats, Stats 10, etc.). If not, you'll have to put in a little more effort, but the material is very doable. That being said, Sheng is not a good professor. Her lectures were EXTREMELY dry, consisting of her reading from and directly copying notes on the board. Since these notes are also posted online, I only attended class for the first week and from then on simply studied the online notes. She allows cheat sheets for the single midterm and the final, and all calculators are acceptable. Her exams are all multiple choice and are fair based on her lecture notes. I didn't do any of the optional homework assignments, but I was told that some test questions were taken directly from the homework.

Recap: the class itself is not difficult, but Sheng is not a good professor.

I took this class my first quarter as a transfer student. In the beginning, the class seemed really doable. She spent the first 6 weeks in the easier concepts (which the other professor covered in less than 3 weeks) giving the students some false confidence of what to expect. After our midterm, she was teaching about one to two sections per lecture (compared to the beginning she would take two class lecture to cover one section).We had to skip certain concepts (MLE) which we will need to know for Econ 103 as we ran out of time. It was extremely difficult to master these concepts because it was super rushed. Moreover, it was difficult to understand her lectures and she had a hard time understanding our questions during class. She had a hard time explaining concepts. She is very nice but unfortunately I would not recommend her because her exams were very difficult and I learned more from my reading than her lectures. Homework was very easy and not an indicator of what to expect. She said that about 1/3 of all questions would come from the homework which was untrue. Moreover, all of her exams were MC so there is no room for partial credit. What is worse is that she couldn't even explain some of the questions from her own midterm. How did she expect us to solve these problems when she couldn't do them herself? The few people who I know did well in this class were people who knew that she was going to rush the second part of class and who were well ahead than the class' pace and also did really well in the first midterm(the easier concepts). For the final, the passing grade was a failing grade so that gives you an indicator of how prepared we were for her impossible questions. Be warned! Just take Rojas, they went at a better pace, covered and learned more, and the exams were super doable!