Reviews of professor Luis Cabral

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Prof Cabral is a nice person and likely great high-level econ prof, but terrible for an entry course. He wrote the textbook, which is more real-world examples than econ concepts. Graded debates which don't help you understand econ better. Tests either impossibly hard or so easy you're Stern curved down heavily. Cross your fingers for a good TA.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Great professor! Please take his class if possible!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lectures is ALL OVER THE PLACE, if I haven't studied myself I would for sure fail this class. At the same time, the textbook of this class is his own task book,which is packed with content but HARD TO READ. He is a genuinely nice guy but there so much room for improvement for the lectures.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I am using this professor's Textbook for my class and it's one of the most useless and vague texts I've ever had the displeasure of using in my education.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Honestly not that bad if you pay attention in class and read the textbook. The quizzes are very similar to the homework. The examples he gives are interesting if you are into economics. A lot of people dont show up to the lectures

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Cabral is a really nice person but he simply cant teach. His lectures are just him giving his opinions on economic concepts and less of him actually teaching. Youll have to teach yourself most of the material either with the textbook or your own sources. The textbook can be useful at times but is poorly written.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Stern curve saves it all because everyone fails in this class. You need to do the discussion forum although you participated - so if you're a tedious monster who wants to get an A that bad, check the discussion forum every day. Exams are weirdly theoretical heavy, read the book. I repeat READ HIS 500 PAGE BOOK AND MEMORIZE!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He lowered my grade AFTER he released a different grade on Albert. Terrible communication, unclear grading criteria, unclear course material, lectures are useless because everything is taught out of a textbook HE wrote.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
His lectures are literally a regurgitation of the textbook (which is SO DRY). His tests are hard and when I went to his office hour, he didn't even make an effort to explain the concepts in a new/helpful way.