<p>I have midterm coming up on Thursday for Ravetch's 120A class.
I heard it's quite difficult (some say impossible to get an A) and that I should be expecting the hardest out of the hardest problems from the materials we learned. </p>
<p>I don't know if Ravetch uses the same teaching method for other classes, but for 120A, he doesn't use any textbook but rather has his own packet where we have to fill in the blank and take notes on. Although he claims the materials on his packet parallels the materials on the textbook, they are not the same.</p>
<p>Moreover he assigns us some problems at the end of each chapter (not as hw though, it's for our own good) but never goes over them during the class (or even discusses).</p>
<p>My question is, will his midterms be very similar to the problems at the end of the chapters? What's his usual format for his exams? Mostly making journal entries and producing financial statement? Fill in the blanks? Multiple Choice? Essays?</p>
<p>Im not sure if the 120A class is totally different from his 1B class, but from what you are saying, it sounds similar. </p>
<p>We had a textbook, but he had notepacks that he filled out in class. He assigned homework, but it wasnt checked. His notes did mirror the book.</p>
<p>I’ll just give you my experiences from 1B since I don’t see many accounting/econ people on these boards.</p>
<p>It’s possible to get an A, and even if no one does, theres always the 20-30% = A curve thingy. </p>
<p>He never gave an essay and in each of his test he put like one multiple choice/fill in the blank question. The multi choice/fill in the blank are mostly irrelevant though since they are about 2-4 pts of your whole test. They aren’t even hard either. </p>
<p>He may make you produce a financial statement. I remember doing that for some tests. He does do journal entries. His problems are like the problems at the end of the chapter, but they are heavily twisted. For 1B, he sometimes combined two homework problems. Sometimes you would have to solve things backwards. </p>
<p>You will probably get problems that resemble homework problems, but they will be something you’ve never seen ever before. How well you truly know a concept will come into play in that scenario. </p>
<p>There will be problems that should be easy though. It’s not all hard, but the hard parts make the whole test feel crappy.</p>