Reviews of professor Martin Santamaria

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Chapter presentation documents are disorganized, jumping from topic to topic, and then back again. All materials are littered with grammatical mistakes, including exams! Lectures are hard to follow and boring. His accent is hard to understand, and he does not speak slowly. He will go on tangents that start interesting but leave you more confused.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I barley went to any lectures and mostly just self-learned from the slides however when i did go i loved his lectures, they were very engaging. He has three midterm type tests and no final. Each midterm is based on different chapters. Since this is a content heavy class, i loved that he didn't have a cumulative final at the end. Tests were easy.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Exam 1 was so easy, Exam 2 was a hell of a grind, too hard, too scary. Especially a lot of questions about the class example, even if you go to listen to the class will not do.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Took Econ 105 and 355w with him. Very straightforward. His lecture slides and previous midterm/finals will help you a lot. Make sure you practice those and he does give hints if you attend lecture. Nicest dude. Tries to make jokes and it is even funnier when no one laughs!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Although he is funny, his lessons are somewhat challenging to understand. I benefited from reading the textbook, but that isn't necessary. The whole course is graded by 3 non-cumulative exams. He gives many sample exams from previous semesters to help study; these are extremely similar to the actual exam.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Ez class, practice exams are the same as the real ones.