anyone care to rank the following stats/econ/math courses?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>Hey guys, could someone who's taken some of these courses rank them in order of difficulty? Telebears are coming up, so this would help a lot :)</p>

<p>Math 53 (Multvariable)
Math 54 (Lin Alg)</p>

<p>Econ 101A (Int. Micro)
Econ 103 (Math Econ)
Econ 104 (advanced Micro)
Econ 136 (Fin. Econ)
Econ 138 (Fin Econ/Beh Econ)
Econ 141 (Economet)
Econ 142 (Adv Economet)
Econ 182 (Int Monetary Pol)</p>

<p>Stat 133 (Computing W/ Stats)
Stat 134 (Prob)
Stat 135 (Stats)
Stat 150 (Stochastic Proc)
Stat 153 (Time Series)
Stat 155 (Game Th)</p>

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<p>Math 54 < Math 53</p>

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<p>No one can objectively the rank the easiness of these classes, it depends on you. What kind of background do you have, what kind of classes have you taken before, which ones did you find easy or hard? Are you good with super abstract mathematics? Can you easily turn real world ideas into equations?</p>

<p>Plus, it depends on professors too. Some will make an easy class brutal or a brutal class easy. Look at grade distributions at [url=<a href=“https://berkeley.courserank.com/berkeley]CourseRank[/url”>https://berkeley.courserank.com/berkeley]CourseRank[/url</a>].</p>

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<p>^ what christopher546 said. It also depends on how much work you put in. Honestly, any class is doable if you put in the necessary amount of work, and of course this will vary depending on your strengths and interests.</p>

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<p>yup i know the difficulty of courses really depend on my own aptitude, but I was hoping for someone who has taken some/most of these courses to give <em>their</em> subjective opinion (and why that is) on this list. </p>

<p>and i’m not sure 53>54. 53’s end material is tough, but i feel 54 can get abstract pretty fast too.</p>

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<p>Many GSIs don’t even know 53 properly. 53>>54. Stat 133 is a lot of work, I’ve heard.
Stat 134 is probably in between 53 and 54. I have Adhikari; so there’s no way I would say it’s harder than 53.</p>

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<p>So here is how I would subjectively rank the classes that I’ve taken:</p>

<p>EASIEST
Econ 101A
Math 53
Math H54
Statistics 134
HARDEST</p>

<p>But I could very easily imagine someone whose list would go in reverse order. So I cannot emphasize enough that it depends on you.</p>

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<p>EASY
Econ 136: material is easy to understand, open book exams with shomali</p>

<p>EASY-MEDIUM
Stat 133: about 5 projects that take 1-3 hours each, familiarize with R which is very useful for statistical analysis… though i never went to lecture because i’m a cs major
Stat 155
Econ 141: after you take stat 135, this class seems quite redundant</p>

<p>MEDIUM
Econ 101A
Stat 135 (Stats)
Stat 134 (Prob)
Math 54
Stat 150 (Stochastic Proc): take after stat 134
Stat 153 (Time Series): take after stat 134</p>

<p>MEDIUM-HARD
Math 53: took it with rezakhanlou first year and got ****ed on the final. perhaps you’ll have a different experience</p>

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<p>math 53 > math 54</p>

<p>stat 133 and stat 134 are pretty hard, especially 133, I just cannot understand all the programming language used.</p>

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<p>I think that math 54 is more difficult. If you have a strong calculus background than 53 should be easier. Math 54 had more definitions than actual math. A large part of the midterm was true/false with tricky wording. Also math 54 moves at a faster pace and has linear algebra+diff equations. math 53 for me was learning the methods and applying them like i have been doing in calculus whereas math54 was more abstract and had a lot of definitions to remember. Also, I was good at mentally visualizing the graphs in 3D but in math 54 there is no geometric counterpart when it involves like more than 5 dimensions.</p>

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<p>Anyone know what to expect for Professor Rezakhanlou’s final? Is there a certain area he tends to focus on? I heard his last final was extremely difficult!</p>