If your learning strategy is memorizing slides, definitions, and so on, you're going to struggle in Dr. Grossman's classes. He puts a strong emphasis on the concepts covered. 90% of the questions you will see on tests are about applying concepts to sophisticated scenarios. If you understand concepts and then wing it on tests, this is your guy.

The only thing that matters is the tests. You could only show up for those and get an A. His teaching is very straightforward, and essentially equivalent to reading the lecture slide on your own. The book is COMPLETELY useless, and actually overcomplicates everything. Simply going to class or reading the slides is enough.

Your grade is based on your performance on three tests and three quizzes. The good news is this class is easier that Econ 10A. I like his lectures and he goes over how to solve the more difficult problems. You'll still have to grind through some of the practice problems without much of a base to go on, but that seems to be typical of UCSB econ.

nice teacher! good luck. i will say he is nice but not that easy.

Dr. Grossman is a nice guy, but his lectures focus on the wrong stuff. He spends too much time on theory which most people should already know. He needs to spend more lecture time explaining how to do the practice problems. I find that I have to teach myself how to do the problems and his powerpoints on GS aren't much help.

I took this class over the summer and it made me fall in love with Economics. Grossman is a really fun professor, I went to every single lecture. I recommend taking this class with him over the summer because the exams were straightforward as long as you did the practice problems.