Harold Wilson
School: | Old Dominion University |
Department: | History |
Location: | Norfolk, VA |
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School: | Old Dominion University |
Department: | History |
Location: | Norfolk, VA |
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If you like to sit in class and not participate then you either be excellent in accounting or take someone else
Exams: Very hard but had a huuuuge curve.
Exams: Ridiclously hard. There is no possible way to study for his test. If you can manage to even grasp a consept of the material in class, it will be totally different on the test.
Homework: None
Exams: They did not make any since, the study guide he gives does not help.
Homework: None!
Textbook: We did not use the textbook, but buy one cause its the only way you will learn anything.
Exams: She test are really hard, and if you're like me and have no accounting background they can be tough. Study Study Study!
Homework: no homework
Textbook: The textbook will come in handy when studying for vocabulary words, but you could probably get by without it. He gives out a lot of handouts on different kinds of accounting problems.
Exams: You need to take a whole other class strictly on how to take his tests. It's unreal the way he grades and what he takes off for. I think he gives his grades and points based on his mood that day. He takes off if you write too big or too small and then if you go into the "margin". It's seriously stupid. They're really hard and never make sense. The questions have nothing to do with what you study.
Homework: None. He said it was helpful to do the homework at the end but it wasn't. The only other thing we did outside of class was a personal budget and stock market analysis and they were "extra credit".
Textbook: We hardly used it in class, but I used it when I studied. You have to teach it to yourself.
Exams: The tests were very hard and hard to study for. The answers were not clear cut, or they were tricky.
Homework: none
Textbook: Rarely used it, maybe to get some definitions to study for the tests, which they were not the ones he used. He had his own definitions and views on accounting.
Exams: Test questions came from a book other than the one we used in class and about 80 percent of the questions were about material that was never discussed in class.
Homework: excercises at the end of the chapter
Textbook: you must read the text if you want to actually learn something in this class.
Exams: The test had material on it that we had never heard of or had never went over in class.
Homework: Only one homework assignment was given but it had little relevance.
Textbook: Wilson gets adjitated if he sees you don't have your book but it really doesn't matter. You never actually use the book for anything except to act as if you're following along with what he's talking about when and if he ever actually opens the thing.
Exams: Towards the end of the semester he gives a test on finance. How he expects students to understand finance without giving them so much as a book to study about it I don't know.
Homework: At the beginning of the semester we had a group project to work on outside of class, and one other project was required. Neither very hard.
Textbook: I referred to the text a few times.
Exams: Homework was never taken up and rarely discussed. His grading seems to be quite fair, he claims to curve. There were only two other assignments, one was a stock market analysis
Homework: He assigned questions from the end of each chapter were never taken up and to be honest, of no help.
Textbook: Helpful only because you must teach yourself.
Exams: The tests were horrible! You can not study for the test, because there was material that you have never seen before and you get so confused that you can not concentrate on the test.
Homework: He never checks to see if you do your homework. Doing the homework does nothing because he never explained it well so you will be confused on the work.
Textbook: The book was somewhat helpful. You could learn more from the book then him.
Exams: I got docked points because my lines in my journal weren't straight. NO KIDDING!!!
Homework: questions from the end of the chapter. It was never graded or checked though.
Textbook: Had to use the text because you didn't learn anything in class.
Exams: Grades on a major curve. Brings the highest test grade in the class up to a 95% then adds the difference in points to everyone elses test. Also, on the final, he subtracts 5% from your grade on your final exam and replaces your lowest test grade with that number. However, I have to say, without the grade curving, I would have probably gotten a C or D instead of the A that I did get.
Homework: Questions from the ends of the chapter in the book and a Stock Market project about a specific stock of your choosing.
Textbook: You can't do the homework without the book. Also, if you don't have the book, you won't have the slightest idea of what's going on!
Exams: The tests were not a fair test of whether you understand accounting
Homework: Only stupid extra-credit assignments
Textbook: Good book
I think that his true interest is in fraud and auditing, so he tends to focus too much on these areas. He doesn't really do a good job explaining basic accounting. Most of the students had no prior accounting knowledge, so they needed the class taught at a more basic level. He seemed to forget that he was teaching the "first-level" accounting course.
Exams: Tests were pretty hard and did not really seem to measure your understanding of the material. Some questions were pulled from later chapters that we had not even covered yet. The good news is that almost everyone did awful on the tests, so he did did give a huge curve on the scores.
Homework: Homework was not graded, but you will be completely lost if you do not do the assigned problems. It's not enough to skim the book and attend class.
Textbook: Textbook was pretty helpful and was really where I got my understanding of accounting (certainly not by attending classes). You will do better if you buy the Survival Guide which has problems along with the answers.
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Exams: Very unfair material taken from the resevoirs of his accounting material. NOT out of the book at all. There is no way to study for the tests
Homework: I stopped doing the homework entirely when I realized it was not going to do any good
Textbook: Don't waste your time reading it no matter how hard he tries to convince you that the material in it will be on the test. Rest assured that it won't, and that the highest grade will undoubtedly go to the luckiest guesser
Exams: Tests were multiple choice, true/false, and the rest was doing balance sheets and stuff like that. They never related to what was discussed in class. Test were extremely hard and the questions were worded to try to trick you.
Homework: Homework was the example problems at the end of each chapter. It helps to do it.
Textbook: Reading the textbook helps a little, but you never know what is going to be on the test.
Exams: Tests were over materail relating to nothing on class discussion or homework.
Homework: Homework from end of each chapter
Textbook: You better buy the book because it is the only way you will know what is going on in the class.
Exams: Mixture of tricky multiple choice, problems, and short answer. Multiple choice looks like a CPA exam. He generates these questions randomly. Most of these we had no idea, and they werent even in the book or our old accounting books.
Homework: Homework is required. However, since there is no solutions manual and evasive answers in class to your questions, you are shooting in the dark
Textbook: There is no solutions manual with this textbook thanks to the accounting department. Textbook is difficult to read it is better to go back into it and answer the questions
Exams: his test were not anything like what was taught in class.
Homework: was due on test days and were problems.
Textbook: used the Textbook in order to do the homework.