<p>Tiller will be teaching all three of the A202 lecture sections in Fall 2009, per the new Fall schedule.</p>
<p>you mean Susan Tiller(Keenan)…</p>
<p>Oh, OK. That sounds much better.</p>
<p>tiller doesn’t seem to be listed in any of the A100</p>
<p>lol sorry but who is she (tiller)?</p>
<p>Susan Keenan, now Susan Keenan-Tiller, is one of the accounting professors. She normally teaches the Managerial Accounting course (A202)–and apparently will be doing so this summer also.</p>
<p>She and Mikel Tiller were recently married. Mikel (Mike) Tiller normally teaches the A100 (Basic Accounting Functions) class, but is now the head of the accounting department. I don’t know if he will still be teaching A100 or not next year. </p>
<p>Tiller (Mikel) is kind of well-known for having a very difficult curve in his beginning accounting course. I think half of all students either get Ds, Fs, or drop the course. The course is designed as a weed-out course, and Tiller is seriously about making it one by providing a lot of “trick questions” on his tests to keep the curve fairly spread out. In his defense, he doesn’t give any C- grades, rounding all of these up to Cs. However, many people are not pleased with the difficulty of his course given the very short period of class lecture time prior to the tests. (Check out “rate my professors” where you will see he has more comments, positive and negative, about his teaching than any other professor at Indiana University at Bloomington.)</p>
<p>In general, if you don’t go to the non-required study sessions, or if you don’t study the subject even before the class starts, you have a low chance of passing the class. (This is why I’m sure bthomp1 was concerned when he originally thought that Mikel would be the Tiller teaching the Managerial Class.</p>
<p>I took A100 the first 8 week of this Spring 2009 semester with Vivian Winston. I will say it was A LOT of work, but it is a very feasible class. You have to take the initiative to study hard and constantly take practice exams (under actual testing conditions). Make the class your <em>project</em> for the half-semester. Like I said, I worked very hard because I constantly heard from peers and word of mouth about the difficulty of the class. I put the effort in and I received the results and ended with over 100 in the class and an A+. I’m NOT guaranteeing that you will get an A by following my advice but you will definitely pass; I guarantee that. There’s no reason that you should miss the problems on both the midterm and the final. You should go into those exams and be able to solve those cold. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE! Get a tutor if you’re having trouble and you should decide that within the first or second week of the class. Where the questions get tricky are the theory questions… Read the hw readings and learn the concepts. Also remember that there are big juicy curves on these exams, usually ranging in the 11-12% range. So don’t go into the testing thinking you have to get every question right, although that’d be nice lol. The class is 45% Midterm, 45% Final, 10% Attendance (GO TO CLASS!, THIS IS NOT A CLASS YOU CAN SKIP!). The 10% is a gift and all you have to do is sign in each day. She even allows you to have some absences and still get the full 10% but honestly you NEED to be at each lecture. If you have any questions respond and I’d be glad to answer them, being that I just finished the course.</p>
<p>i plan to take it my first 8 weeks this fall as a freshman</p>
<p>Oh yeah you reminded me of something SolidSnake…</p>
<p>Take it the first 8 weeks so that if you happen to mess up you can retake it the following 8 weeks.</p>
<p>is it alright to assume the people that fail or drop the class are not usually direct admits?</p>
<p>@Solidsnake, both non-DA’s and DA’s fail and have to retake…back when I took the class(Fall 07), after the midterm, almost half the class dropped, so study hard for the class, but it’s definitely for lack of a better term, doable</p>
<p>On Susan Tiller, she’s probably one of the nicest professors in kelley</p>
<p>I have no idea whether I’m going to IU yet, but this was really helpful advice. I heard accounting is the toughest class for freshmen at Kelley.</p>
<p>thanks calcruzer and pantherhockeyfan, i will def make sure i work hard in that class =D</p>