ECON 137A
Susan Grover
5.0
4 reviews
Susan Grover
3.8
32 reviews

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137A . 6 Months Ago

She's the best professor ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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137A . 10 Months Ago

She lectures well and has a lot of experience and it shows in lectures. I had her Winter 2023 and enjoyed her class as it was very straight forward. There are weekly quizzes and she assigns a hundred optional questions. Highly recommend doing all 100 questions a week as they are extremely close to the quiz questions. Overall not a bad course

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ECON137A . 1 Year, 6 Months Ago

Professor Grover is a fantastic professor among other lecturers from Econ Dept. For 137A, it is easy to get above A if you put some work into it, by really understanding the materials. Haters gon' hate, but you can earn 40% of your total grade by doing HW and up to 5% EC with attendance. Be ready for the weekly practice (helpful but dreaded).

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137A . 1 Year, 8 Months Ago

She just expects you to put in so much damn time on this one class while you have other stuff and other classes to worry about. The homework takes 1-2.5 hours and then you have the weekly quizzes which are cheggable but they are chosen from a database of 100 questions for each chapter and for the final you gotta know your stuff so you can't finesse

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137A . 1 Year, 9 Months Ago

She keeps teaching to the point and is excellent at making the theories practical. The gaucho space is very organized with all the needed resources to succeed in this class.

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ECON137A . 1 Year, 9 Months Ago

Prof. Grover is an exceptional teacher who genuinely cares for her students. Her unique approach to the accounting curriculum includes a group project that fosters connections among classmates. The homework and tests are straightforward, so long as one studies, and the course is well-organized. Highly recommend!

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ECON137A . 1 Year, 9 Months Ago

Grover is a spectacular professor that truly loves her students. Her class was very unique but very helpful to the accounting curriculum, with a very interesting group project aspect that helps people connect with others in the class. The homework and tests were very straightforward, so long as you studied, and the class was perfectly organized.

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137A . 1 Year, 9 Months Ago

Grover is not a bad professor, but she sure does like assigning wayyyyy to many concepts on Connect. Her assignments are averaging roughly around 60 concepts, whereas other econ professors only assign about 30 concepts on Connect. In other words, be prepared to spend countless hours on Connect.

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ECON137A . 1 Year, 11 Months Ago

Prof Grover is a really nice one. She got a lot of extra credit for students and give you a lot of practices for quizzes and final. Participation is not mandatory but you can learn a lot from the lectures and sections. There will be 2 group projects, start earlier could be helpful and do a lot of practices.

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137A . 2 Years Ago

Brought in a lot of guest speakers- super helpful to hear from so many professionals in the field.

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ECON137A . 2 Years Ago

Amazing professor- really caring and supportive. Grover makes accounting interesting and easy to understand.

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ECON137A . 2 Years Ago

Very encouraging professor. Grover cares about her students and wants to see you succeed. Class has a reasonable workload and the group project is fun if you pick a good group.

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ECON137A . 2 Years Ago

Grover never responds to emails. NEVER. Attending lectures is useless either. You need to study yourself. Not difficult for an A

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ECON137A . 3 Years Ago

Homework, quiz 60%, project 30%. 100 questions homework every week takes at least an hour. 2 group projects with one presentation which I like. Weekly quiz is 10 questions with 20 mins, so you have to do to another 100 practice to quick response. Easy to run out of time. Interactive lecture was interesting, and she's knowledgeable and practical.

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ECON137A . 4 Years Ago

I was impressed by Grover when I took her class during Spring of 2020 remotely. On the first midterm, the class average was extremely low because of the lack of time we had to do each problem. However, she was understanding and increased the time for the next midterm and gave us 700 practice problems similar to the ones on the tests. She's fair.

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137A . 4 Years Ago

She was so unclear with the grading, especially with the tests and projects. Grilled people on topics that weren't included in class during project presentations. She couldn't go a single day without making multiple mistakes in class. She would stare at the board for 5 minutes before she realized what was wrong. It was awkward and embarrassing

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137A . 4 Years Ago

She overcompensates for at home exams with test length/difficulty. The first midterm had an average of 52% -- her solution? upload 700 practice questions. Yes, because when a prof gets a failing average, it's the on STUDENTS to make up for it by spending even MORE time studying, rather than making the test more reasonable. makes sense.

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ECON136A . 2 Months Ago

Great professor with tons of experience. Very clear with instructions for assignments and quizzes.

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X4994 . 1 Year, 9 Months Ago

Excellent professor who really cares about her students. She did a great job of explaining tough information in a concise way and made sure we understood her. I felt very comfortable to ask questions or talk to her after class if I was confused on anything.

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ECON136A . 2 Years Ago

An amazing professor that actually cares about her students. Teaches you interview skills, and accounting basics, and even goes beyond to make sure her students are doing well. Truly one of the best professors I've come across at UCSB, one of the few gems within the accounting department. Coincidence she's the most qualified as well? Nope, 10/10

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X4994 . 2 Years Ago

Portfolio presentations were fun. The guest judges cared about your rationale.

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X4992 . 2 Years Ago

Brought in a lot of guest speakers. Learned a lot.

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136A . 4 Years Ago

teaching is just an emphasis of memorization tactics and generic rules. She doesnt teach the thought process/rationale behind these rules or concepts. Leads to a feeble understanding of accounting & a terrible foundation for an intro course. Gonna be terrible when ppl get into a class where they have to actually understand these concepts in depth

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ECON136A . 4 Years Ago

Shes so nice but basically just reads off her slides that have the most basic examples, so she doesnt really 'teach'. Her 'explanations' are really just a regurgitation of quick rules - ie "this note discounted, why? because this chart says if __ then it's a discount" which doesnt explain the actual concept and makes it hard to apply to to test Qs

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