Professor
Troy Smith
Most Helpful Review
Spring 2017 - I got a pretty good grade in this class, but I would've struggled if I didn't have a good sense of econ to begin with. This professors lectures are boring and hard to focus on. He writes pretty small on the board so its often hard to see. You can get his slides online, but you should go to lecture to take notes on the problems he does on the board. Don't buy the textbook. His tests are pretty closely related to the problem set he gives out, but there is often a little twist on one or two of the problems on the exams, and his multiple choice require a pretty full coverage knowledge of the material. (Tests are about 50/50 multiple choice and written problems). All in all, not bad at all if you are good at econ, but beware that the grade distribution for midterm 2 was a 56% and up was an A.
Spring 2017 - I got a pretty good grade in this class, but I would've struggled if I didn't have a good sense of econ to begin with. This professors lectures are boring and hard to focus on. He writes pretty small on the board so its often hard to see. You can get his slides online, but you should go to lecture to take notes on the problems he does on the board. Don't buy the textbook. His tests are pretty closely related to the problem set he gives out, but there is often a little twist on one or two of the problems on the exams, and his multiple choice require a pretty full coverage knowledge of the material. (Tests are about 50/50 multiple choice and written problems). All in all, not bad at all if you are good at econ, but beware that the grade distribution for midterm 2 was a 56% and up was an A.