Reviews of professor David Driscoll

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof Driscoll is a very knowledgeable teacher of finance as evidenced by his years in the financial industry. EC50 is a very practical class, but definitely not a class to take if you're just looking for an easy A. Lot of lecture slide reading, office hours, and practice needed to do well in the class. Textbook basically not necessary, great guy!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This is a class that you would def learn a lot in but it will take a lot of time. The content isn't that bad but the PSET and test questions are worded really weirdly, confusingly, and/or badly that you have to be super careful- it's really easy to get things wrong. He's a really smart man and going to office hours are helpful!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Genuinely a super smart guy who is very nice and funny, but it was hard to trust the grading process given not only the number of grammatical errors in questions, but the missing information in example problems, incorrectly solved in-class problems, and abundant errors on the answer keys of the homework and practice tests.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Driscoll's disorganization makes Ec50 more difficult than it should be. The slides were long but unclear & he often forgot to put in answers to practice questions. He reuses exams, so you won't be able to see what you got wrong. On our midterm, 20% of people got below a 50, but if you know practice problems well and you should be okay.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Driscoll was clearly knowledgeable, but his teaching style didn't work for me. His lectures got so boring and he could come off as very hostile.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
very accessible outside of class and hosts good lectures. however psets and exams are worded confusingly sometimes.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
eh. entertaining lecturer and is accessible outside of class. psets and tests are intentionally misleading and confusing, and he makes it hard to get a good grade. also EVERYONE CHEATS on tests bc he makes it so easy that if you don't you are at a disadvantage.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof Driscoll is knowledgeable and experienced in finance. His lectures keep students engaged and he uses real world examples. He's helpful during office hours and cares about the students and course material. Finance seemed like a different language to me at first, but by the end of the course I was glad I took it. Graded homework and 2 exams.