Highly recommend this class to all Biz Econ/Econ majors. Professor Convery is extremely knowledgeable on the topics discussed and gives engaging lectures. Tests are straightforward and are fair. Do all the practice questions from the book, not just the highlighted ones, go to lecture, and skim the textbook and you will get a good grade. Go to his office hours if you need help on problems, he is great at individual teaching. The topics discussed in this class are valuable no matter what field you enter, but especially if you go into Finance or Consulting. Highly recommend this class and Professor Convery!

The workload is very doable and the tests are fair. Just review past exams to prepare for the finals.

We spent weeks on present value and future value calculations and glazed over the most interesting parts of the content (valuation methods). Convery uses the textbook's slides, and will quickly read them to himself before presenting them. The exams are hard, and often contain errors. Bad professor for interesting material. Convery doesn't even actually have a background in econ/finance, which is probably why his teaching style is so fragmented. Take this class with another professor. Also, the labs are pretty easy - don't bother making a group to work on them together - you can pump them out easily in one hour on your own.

This class was amazing! Convery is super nice and friendly and really looks out for his students, especially if you put in some effort. Pretty easy grader as well.

I took this class online, although I feel like the format shouldn't be that different on-ground:

Class Grade - 20% Lab, 20% Midterm 1, 20% Midterm 2, and 40% Final Exam. The labs are all excel-intensive labs that elaborate on some of the harder and most important concepts taught in class. Personally I really enjoyed all the labs, since even though they all took quite some time to complete, they were all really useful in terms of actual application of concepts learned in class. The labs are also group-based as well (with up to 4 people in a group) and graded mostly on your solution process and not actual accuracy, so if you get good group members (I fortunately did) and try your best on each one of the labs to show your calculation process, you can definitely get 100% even if some of your numbers are off.

The exams are all super fair and straight-forward; just like a previous review suggested, as long as you do ALL of the homework questions (highlighted AND unhighlighted), you're good on the exams. My TA Julian was also absolutely amazing - he provides his own set of practice problems that are very similar to the textbook problems and go over them in discussions, so you basically get extra practice before each exam. The textbook isn't required, however I found it pretty useful as a quick read before the exams to review all the topics.

Finally, Professor Convery is one of the nicest professors I've ever had - he replies to emails almost always within half a day of sending them, and I always felt more than welcome to come to his office hours and ask for help or just to chat. Definitely would take him again for any Econ class!

This was the most straight forward class I have taken as an econ major. Copy the slides (either in lecture or on your own), do the homework problems he highlights, know the practice exams inside and out, and take the tests. He even allows cheat sheets in the exam which is very helpful. The exams are very fair and mirror the type of questions you find on the practice exams and in the homework problems. The group projects in lab are graded on a credit/no credit basis so there's no need to stress if it is perfect or not, just put in effort with your group. I was worried about taking this class based on the reviews before, but Convery must have revamped the class because I thought it was a very useful class and not too demanding of my time. I highly recommend.

I suggest doing or at least looking at /all/ of the practice problems (not just the highlighted ones) on the free response and multiple choice questions that the TA's and Convery give out. Tests are extremely fair and straight forward. Excel projects don't take too much time.

Only slight complaint with that some of the practice questions have a fair amount of errors.

I am beyond surprised after reading other comments on this class and the professor, I guess this just shows everyone is different. I would never recommend this class to others. It is useful, but not in the way the professor teaches. He reads lecture slides, and reads formulas without explaining. For his practice homework, they are usually 70 pages long. Yes, he said you dont need to do all of it. but who knows which of those questions will actually be on the test? then you ended up having to do all of it just because what if you missed something. Then, his practice questions, and his practice exams are often full of mistakes. His actual midterms are often really bad: after taking both midterms, we realized that for some multiple choices, the right answers were not even listed as a choice. I don't know if he curved them. He would suqeeze in all materials two days before exam and expect you to do all the question on practice tests and homework (70 pages long)_. the tests are a lot harder than his lectures. you don't need his lectures to do his tests. you need to do his practice exams to do his tests.

Convery is extremely nice and is a genuinely nice guy. However, be prepared for 10 full weeks of him and his terrible TAs reading off of generic slides for an hour and a half 2x per week. Don't go to lecture, don't go to discussion. It's just rehashing a collection of slides that the textbook company provides to him. It's a snoozefest for the entire quarter, so be warned.

Took ECON 106F with Professor Convery last quarter. He is a really nice guys, always willing to help you during OH and really makes an effort to help you learn the material. The class lecture were pretty well organized, most of the material mirrored the textbook, so much so that the pp were actually from the book's publisher with some alterations made by the professor.
Overall the grades material were distributed: 20% data case, 20% midterm 1, 20% midterm 2 and 40% final. The exams were very fair and straight forward. If you went to class, read and understand the slides fully and did the practice problem, the exams were very straight forward (you actually dont really need to read the book except for the data case). The data case were long problem sets from the back of the chapter, there were 4 in total (5% each) and we ad ample time to do it.
The only problem was that there were major issues with the problem set and solution that he posted. The formatting became really weird and there were numerous mistakes in them (as well as many of the answers were very convoluted). I dont blame the professor for this because it was his first time teaching the course and these problem set were from the publisher themselves so hopefully next time he would fixed this. Also, for the one of the midterm, there were MAJOR issues with the grading. One of the TA was basically clueless and literally marked the exam all wrong. In some question where the question was answered perfectly correct, she gave me 0 point but luckily the professor fixed this so it was alright. Most people (and sure more than 50% of the class) had to ask for regrades and in most case got back a huge chunk of points (I actually felt really bad for the professor because he had to regrade all the exams himself one-by-one).
Overall, really enjoyed this class. I would say it was one of the more interesting 106 and the material was very straightforward. I would definitely recommend it to all BizEcons (and Econs).