Aaron Finkle

This professor has taught: BUSO604, ECON306, ECON321, ECON456, ECON488K, ECON641

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Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting a C Anonymous 12/09/2024	I'm not sure why reviews are so high for this professor and course. He goes over the most irrelevant problems in class while the weekly homework and quizzes are completely irrelevant to the exams. Exams are over 60% of the course's grade. When he solves certain problems he won't even write out the questions so you have no clue what he is solving for. This was my most difficult course so far and the professor wasn't helpful. The practice exams aren't even helpful to help you prepare for the exams and you're meant to figure it out yourself. I memorized the practice exams from studying so much yet still flunked the final exam.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/09/2024	no idea why the reviews are this high. the weekly homeworks and quizzes are irrelevant, and only the worksheets are somewhat helpful towards the exam. in class, he takes 1 hr and 15 minutes to go over the most bare-bones examples and expects most of us to figure out the more complicated problems on our own. the most helpful things to study if you take this course would be the practice exams, but he sometimes doesn't post the steps to them, just the answers, leaving you to figure out the process on your own. he likes to do this thing where he goes over one thing heavily in class but puts something else on the exams. for example, he will mostly cover taxes in class, but on the test, he will ask you about subsidies and other things he only covered once or twice. on top of that, the tas are only useful for worksheet help, not explaining concepts outside of the worksheet (unfortunately they heavily struggled). i've gotten good grades in other classes around this difficulty but for this course only, i flunked 2/3 of his exams. keep this in mind when registering for finkle.
Aaron Finkle Expecting a B- Anonymous 08/07/2024	He was a solid professor. He was a good lecturer and cared about you passing. The homework was on MyLab. There were two categories: Homework (15%) and Quizzes(10%). Homework gave you two chances to get it right and then the quizzes were single attempt. Fridays were "Worksheet Days" where we worked on some problems he gave us. There was no lecture that day and he and the TAs walked around to answer questions. There were three midterm exams (work 15% each) and a final (worth 20%), but the final was optional. Overall, a good professor but a tough class. I struggled with many concepts, but mainly the first exam.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/16/2024	Dr. Finkle is a quirky and chill guy. He does class in person but also live zooms the lectures which is nice. He also brings his dog to class! Dont worry about the online hws and quizzes because they are much harder than the exams just do them because they will boost your grade. The weekly worksheets are the most similar to exam questions. Overall the class is really not that hard just tedious, but if you study for exams you'll do well. He gives you everything you need to pass.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting an A Anonymous 05/13/2024	Finkle is a really good professor! He teaches the concepts well and provides a lot of review material for all the exams. I personally really liked the class and learned a lot.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/21/2023	Finkle is a really straightforward and fair teacher who won't waste your time at all. Just show up to lecture, and every once in a while try to do a problem that he goes through in class, and you should be set (if you are comfortable with calculus and intro econ concepts). You can ignore the textbook to intermediate macro, hop into the homework problems that he assigns on Pearson, and just grind the course out by practicing those. Also, Dr. Finkle makes studying very easy, as he posts past exams along with answer keys which essentially mimic what is on the actual exam. Overall, ECON306 is an extremely well-structured class that makes it easy to understand the entire course as long as you are willing to put in the work.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/19/2023	Professor Finkle was very straightforward in his lectures to teach us how to do the practice problems we would see on the exams. I like econ so I showed up to all of his lectures but you don't have to since he posts supplemental videos and records the lectures. The pearson homework and quizzes were very time consuming and definitely the most annoying part of the class. The exams were exactly what you would expect since he posts practice questions and practice exams for you to study with and they were always almost identical to the exam you would receive. I didn't do as well as I would have liked on the exams because of the amount of open ended questions. I would know how to do the problem but would make one mistake along the way and then receive 0 credit since he doesn't look at your work or give partial credit. You definitely need to put effort into this class to do well on the exams, since the curve was usually only 1-3%.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/16/2023	This is one of the easiest classes I’ve taken - as long as you pay attention in lecture and do the practice exams, you’ll be set. The homework takes about 4 hours a week but it’s pretty helpful when it comes to exams. Professor Finkle explains the concepts very clearly and doesn’t put hard questions on exams.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/13/2023	I think the most difficult part of this class is the course load. You will have an online Homework and Quiz weekly (that sometimes take hours), on top of a Worksheet, completing the readings, and showing up to class. However, I truly believe that if you put in this work you can succeed in the class. Professor Finkle makes his exams very similar to the practice exams you are given. As long as you understand how to do the math, and you understand the concepts that he had gone over, then you should be able to apply them to the exams and do well. I believe the class was graded fairly.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/11/2023	The course is a lot of work considering its required for all business majors. It feels like a lot of busy work because the homework is very long. Also, he does not do partial credit on his exams but they are also very similar to his practice exams. He have a nervous energy when he teaches but seems knowledgeable.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 12/08/2023	Dude honestly makes the class 100x harder than it needs to be...if you can teach yourself the material, you'll be much better off. On the exam topics and questions document, he often has typos which just confuse students even more. He barely has basic business knowledge to the point where I think he is confusing himself. I honestly felt bad for him at some points in the semester and thought he kept drawing graphs so he could confuse students so he didn't look like he was the idiot.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting a B Anonymous 09/25/2023	Literally so much busy work I would spend 10 hours a week just doing HW, quizzes and worksheets. You have to be tight with the TA's to do well or else you will lose easy points on assignments. The exams are hard. partial credit did not exist and each question was worth so much. He goes so fast in lecture and really uses his ipad, so if you do not have one, good luck! 3 times a week is brutal also.
Aaron Finkle ECON456 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 06/06/2023	To be quite frank, I attended lectures up until the first exam and found that, although he didn't make it completely boring, not necessary. Most, if not all concepts could be studied from his resources on ELMS and on the Internet. Problem sets were, in my years of being an econ major, extremely reasonable and not too difficult. Exams had minimal multiple choice and mostly free responses of varying lengths. Concepts in the exams were brought up and taught, so nothing was out of the ballpark. Class average on the final was a 57%, curved generously. Everyone got 100% on the presentation project. Study, attend office hours, utilize resources, and do the work. You should be more than fine!
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting an A- Anonymous 05/19/2023	Overall this class wasn't that bad. Professor Finkle would go through the notes in a way that was generally easy to grasp and the homework, while annoying, matched what was covered in class. The weekly worksheets were also extremely helpful because we got to ask the TA's questions and the questions were worded similarly to the exams. The classes are short (50 mins) so he occasionally had to send supplemental videos which were annoying but it was overall doable. I also appreciated that he recorded the lectures.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting a D Anonymous 05/16/2023	Literally rushes through practice examples in class. TA's are the ones you're mostly gonna be reaching out to for help. You'll spend so much time doing the homework and quizzes. Practice exams are literally nothing like the actual exams. I would attend class, rewatch lectures if I needed to and study 1 week prior to exams and still got horrible test grades. I wouldn't bother if I were you. Should've dropped when I had the chance.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting a C+ Anonymous 05/08/2023	Dr. Finkle is very kind and approachable but his explanations of the material were not all that helpful. I found the homeworks and quizzes to be unnecessarily difficult and not closely related to the exams. The exams were difficult only because they had questions where the numbers built off each other and no opportunities for partial credit. This is certainly a good class to take if you need the upper level econ requirement, but I would not say its enjoyable.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/15/2022	I don't understand why Professor Finkle is receiving such bad ratings, especially this semester. He is a kind and interesting professor, gives ample time to ask questions regarding material, and the homework is nowhere near 10 hours a week, 4 hours at most. The practice exams are fair and give you an idea of what concepts will be on the exams, but like most teachers, it is not enough to simply do the practice exams and expect to do well on exams. 306 is overall not a hard class, go to lectures, do the work on time, and study for exams and you should be more than fine.
Aaron Finkle Anonymous 12/12/2022	Take someone else for this class. You’ll spend HOURS doing worksheets, homework and quiz each week. I spent 10 hours a week on this class, and didn’t pass. His exams are nothing like the practice he gives, and he’s made it clear he does not care if you don’t pass. I’ve never had a professor who cares less about their students. He’s literally ruined my future and does not care! The amount of stress this class put me through is ridiculous, so save yourself and choose a different professor.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting a D- Anonymous 12/12/2022	So bad I literally had to drop the class
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting a C- Anonymous 12/12/2022	Teaching style is not the best, and the practice exams do not really help in comparison to the real exams. He's a great professor to some, and a not so great professor to others. I happened to fall in the bunch that cannot learn effectively with his teaching style. Homework assignments are weighted equally to the first three exams, and the final exam is optional. You generally do not have to do extremely well on the exams to pass the class, but again, do not go in expecting the exams to be easy just because the practice exams were.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/11/2022	Finkle isn't the best professor in the world, but he's also not the worst. Econ is already a hard subject and he does an okay job of trying to explain concepts. He spends a lot of time drawing graphs and jumping around, but what you really need to pay attention to are the examples he goes over and the weekly worksheets. There is a good amount of hw in this class that is very unnecessary but is normal for an econ class. I would make sure to come to class on Fridays so you can get help/concepts explained to you by the TAs or Finkle himself. My advice is to try and understand concepts before exams so you're not trying to learn everything last minute. His exams are somewhat similar to past exams and worksheets, so make sure you understand them.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 11/02/2022	Terrible teaching style and his practice exams are all so easy, wait til u get the real exam.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting a B Anonymous 05/29/2022	Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. With three weeks left in the semester, Finkle realized that our grades were not weighted correctly in ELMS and changed all of them shifting my grade by 7%. I dropped from a 93% to an 86%. Ridiculous and irresponsible. He’s a good professor who knows how to teach but this oversight was so bad and costed me so much.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting an A- Anonymous 12/13/2021	Economics is a HARD subject. With that in mind, Professor Finkle was probably the best professor I could have gotten to teach it. His exams are very similar to what he covers in class. Attendance and reading the textbook is optional, but it will be very hard to do well without doing both. Grading is also fair and offers curves if necessary. It is very clear that Prof. Finkle understands what he is teaching, and conveys the material well with lots of examples to try and make it easier for those who don't understand.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting an A- Anonymous 01/15/2021	Only parts of the syllabus were published at a time so the exam schedule was unknown. The class was difficult online but there were a lot of assignments, three midterm exams, and an optional final exam so one grade did not make or break anything. Also, the TAs were unhelpful.
Aaron Finkle ECON306 Expecting a B+ Anonymous 05/20/2019	I really suggest Aaron Finkle for anyone who needs an UL Econ class. Econ isn't an easy subject, so I still wouldn't say he's an easy A but he's probably the best shot you have at getting one. You can tell he really knows what he's talking about and he communicates it well. Class does get boring but every huge lecture does (and you don't even need to go to every class). Most topics are manageable to teach yourself, between the Learnsmarts, his posted notes, the text and the homework you have plenty of resources.