Reviews of professor Graig Arcuri

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He reads PPT and puts practice questions expecting only one go during class will make you remember for the rest of your life. Class is heavily just lecture and his voice makes you want to sleep. But if you put the effort in, you walk away with an acceptable grade. Great guy, just a bad teacher.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This is the most boring professor I have ever had. Highly recommend avoiding him if you can, you can't learn anything from his lectures and he drones on. If you want to learn anything, you should just stay home and read the textbook

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
this class is no joke, the exams are literally 10 questions and no work. Get one wrong that's 10 percent off regardless if you were off by a little. Finance is very difficult, professor is a great guy, super likable but his class is made super hard. He teaches u the math of finance, and not concepts very well. Good luck if u take this class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Arcuri is a very caring instructor and listens to student feedback better than almost all professors. He wants students to do well in the class and will help you do so in a multitude of ways.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Class was basically going in, getting thrown slides that hardly made sense and then learning problems to memorize for the exams. I was fine learning like that for tests but I walked away not knowing a lot about finance. Also dont skip lectures unless you have a friend to tell you how to do problems or you wanna go see him

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He's chill.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Before you pick a FIN256 professor, just understand that every professor gives the same exact exam so that should not go into your decision. In terms of teaching Arcuri is very knowledgeable but tends to go extremely fast which can get you pretty lost rather quickly as after the first week or two the material gets very difficult. 3 exams and 12 hws