<p>Do not take Ravetch your first quarter.</p>
<p>That is all.</p>
<p>LOL, hahahhah.</p>
<p>Okay in Ravetch’s defense, if you have to take him your first quarter, make sure you only take 3 classes and have one of the classes be a fairly easy class =P. </p>
<p>Or if you take him, prepare to bomb your first midterm, feel sooooo crappy, question how you even got into UCLA in the first place if you got such a low grade, then proceed to study more, kick ass on the second midterm and final and score your B :).</p>
<p>I guess Ravetch in first quarter as a freshman is too much then?</p>
<p>Haha… Do not take Ravetch at all. Take Gardner for 1B in the summer and wait for Litt to teach 120B. :]</p>
<p>Man, for 120B, Litt only taught it this past spring. Other than that, I don’t think he has taught it in the last 3 years. </p>
<p>If you have to take someone for 120B, realistically, you’ll either take Klein or STAFF. Pick one of those! Avoid Ravetch for 120B! If you think 1B is bad with Ravetch, you’ll suffer a crapload more!</p>
<p>is he really that impossible? I’m not getting anything specific</p>
<p>He’s not impossible.
Nothing is impossible.</p>
<p>I hope you got the message.</p>
<p>thanks adidas</p>
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<p>My 120A experience with Ravetch. Can be wrong on the details of the assignment since I took him two years ago. His format might have changed since, but I doubt he’s gotten any easier ;)</p>
<p>First day of class, given a homework assignment requiring me to create a statement of cash flow using the direct method with a given set of info - Due the next class. Note: The lecture is totally irrelevant to homework, so if you are a little shady on the cash flow statement, have fun rampaging through your textbook pages.</p>
<p>Second day of class, create a statement of cash flow using the indirect method. Due the next class.</p>
<p>Third day of class, covert a statement of cash flow into Balance Sheet and Income Statement. Due the next class.</p>
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<p>By the end of second week, you will have done 10+ hours of work for the homework alone for Ravetch. The Third week begins in which the drop deadline will have passed, and now that you are safely trapped in his class, the real fun begins :)</p>
<p>In class, you’ll be busy jotting down notes (he provides you with a separate package which you can write notes on), at your dorm/home/apartment, you’ll be busy working on your project. Expect your life to be taken over by Ravetch for that quarter. Regarding the projects - You will be given a series of projects over the quarter which involves reviewing financial statements and general ledger, identifying errors (you will need to research through SFAS to support your argument on why it’s wrong), regenerating the correct financial statements and general ledger, and writing footnotes. Can be a major time consumer.</p>
<p>On top of that, you have the midterm and final, which tests you on literally everything you did in class, including the lecture materials and group projects.</p>
<p>Fortunately, he has a very bright personality and his lectures can be quite entertaining. He is very humorous, so you won’t fall asleep during the lecture (but then you are forced to stay awake to make sure you don’t miss out any info.)</p>
<p>Great guy, Tough professor. Not recommended if you are a first year at UCLA. My recommendation is that you take easy classes your first quarter here and get good grades, so you won’t be as depressed once your GPA plummets after taking him. :D</p>
<p>On and one more thing, after Ravetch, choose easier professor as a morale booster. Litt and Gardner are smart choices. Klein, not so much.</p>
<p>Is he like that for 1B also? I’m signed up for 1B for fall and I was considering dropping it after reading all of this and reviews on him on bruinwalk, but after looking through the past couple of quarters it seems like he’s the only one who teaches 1B, so I don’t know what to do.</p>
<p>1B is nothing like his 120A and 120B classes. 1B is a simple 2 midterms and one final. Each are the same % of your grade. Everyone bombs the first one so he says if you do 15 points better on your next midterm and final, the final will be 40% and the others will be 20 (dont quote me on the %, its been 3 years since I took Ravetch). It’s just that you study and study and when you see the midterm, you kinda wonder how he got these problems. They aren’t impossible but they make you think. He kinda combines concepts, or gives things that make you second guess what you are doing.</p>
<p>So his questions are just really tricky? Are the tests as time pressured as Gardner’s were for 1A?</p>
<p>They are tricky if you are the type of person who studies by memorizing how to do a problem a certain way. If you are the type of person to get flustered and confused by seeing a problem in a different way, you might have some trouble with Ravetch. </p>
<p>Hmmmmm, I never had any time pressure during his tests. I could finish the test and had enough time to go over it at least once. </p>
<p>If you’re lucky, you may be able to find someone who took 1B recently and they can tell you whats on the test :). Ravetch doesnt let you take the tests or see the test with any writing instruments/backpack/etc, so he can just recycle his tests forever!</p>
<p>how low are these grades you guys are talking about? cuz you need a B to get into the accounting minor…</p>
<p>Every accounting class is curved so there will be a set amount of people who get a certain grade. If you don’t get into the minor its not the end of the world. You’ll still be able to take all the courses.</p>