Jaggia, Sanjiv  

Good teacher, hard subject. Unlike other teachers, Sanjiv thinks you should be able to use financial calculators in finance. What a concept! It's a hell of a lot easier than remembering all those looooong equations. He also lets you bring in a sheet of notes for the quizzes and for the tests we were allowed to basically have as many pages of notes that we wanted. He also made worksheets for us for every chapter and assigned questions from the book for us to do. Of course we didn't have to do any of this, but if you want to learn the material you will. He goes over any questions during class. He's a very good teacher and I love his funny accent. =P He puts a lot of effort into teaching this course and it shows.

There are 5 quizzes (1 is dropped), a midterm, and a final. The quizzes are 8 multiple choice problems that are not cumulative. The midterm and the final are both 20 questions and cumulative. Jaggia has his own workbook that is very helpful and the textbook, which you do homework problems out of that are not collected. Overall, he did a very good job at explaining material and reviewing students\' questions. The best way to do well in this course is to do the homework problems before class and do lots of practice problems before the midterm and final.

Great teacher. He requires you to buy a textbook and a workbook, and the workbook his own summaries of the textbook. If you read over the workbook and do all the textbook problems he assigns, this class should be very straightfoward. We had 4 quizzes (none are dropped, 40%), a midterm (30%), and a final (30%). All questions are MC. The only bad thing I can say about him is that very rarely did he lecture quickly, which didn't give me enough time to understand what he was talking about; however, doing the HW after class clarified my questions. I'd recommend taking Jaggia.

Apparently he's a better professor to take than the other options, but I absolutely hated this class...boring subject and the entire course is 4 quizzes, a midterm, and a final. He assigns homework problems, but it doesn't count toward your grade in any way. I dreaded going to this class...

He's a great teacher. He's able to explain and simplify the material so well that it was easy for me to sit down and want to learn about finance. There isn't graded HW, though he assigns problems to help you practice. Your grade is based on how well you answer 80 questions (4 quizzes - 10 questions each, along with a midterm and final - 20 questions each). If you lax and bomb one quiz, chances of an A are really slim. Piece of advice, I averaged an A on every test but one quiz where I got an F. I didn't do any of the "HW" and I received a B because of that one quiz. Lastly, the overall class is curved a couple percent, you don't pass this class, good luck in the finance world.

This class is entirely based on 4 10 pt quizzes, a 20 pt midterm and a 20 pt final. The first day of class you must buy his workbook from UniversityReaders that he has written himself along with the Corporate Finance textbook. There would be no problem with this if the exams and quizzes followed the lecture. No partial credit, no quizzes dropped. Don't expect help from this guy

Jaggia started out the class great but along the way stopped giving a crap. Students were very confused most of the time and he just refused to work out the problems on the board. His favorite words are "its pretty simple" and "all you have to do is plug in the numbers." I was pretty disappointed and I worked my pretty hard in the class. 4 quizzes are work 10% each and a midterm and final work 30% each. Find good study buddies if your going to take him because he will not clarify anything for you.

Professor Jaggia is a very smart man and clearly knows his stuff. That said, this is a VERY difficult class. I focused on every lecture, did practice problems, felt confident before and during tests, but when I got my grades I realized he threw in a ton of trick questions that I missed. If you don't care about finance take another professor, if you are interested I highly recommend Jaggia.

Jaggia is a great finance teacher. He charged only 10 dollars for his work book and honestly I only opened the real textbook 2-3 times when I needed further clarification on a specific topic. I'm taking the next 2 finance courses this quarter and Jaggia is a way better professor than either of the two guys that I have now. Jaggia prepares you well for the next courses and doesn't make his classes require insane amounts of study time like I hear Gorman does, so I recommend him highly. You should plan on attending every class session as there is a lot of information given, but I was never bored during lecture because it was always seemingly important info.

Sanjiv is the man. It's a tough class but he explains the material pretty well. He relates what you are learning to the real world and helps you conceptually understand finance. If you are debating Gorman, Dobson or this guy, TAKE THIS GUY. There were 4 quizzes, each worth 10 percent of the grade. They weren't super tough and all of the problems were similar to the ones he had in the book which only costs 10 bucks and is super helpful. 1 midterm and the final. You can't go wrong with Sanjiv. Great professor.

So I think he was overall great, but I have some advice for his class. First, you really have to read EVERYTHING in the course packet. That's not really a complaint about him as it is a warning. Usually, textbooks are 300+ pages so skimming is reasonable. However, his course pack takes out all of the irrelevant stuff and leaves you with only important things (even the non-formulas btw), so approach every line as being vital because it is. Second, I think at times he could've been a bit more clear in his explanations, so be sure to ask clarifying questions because he teaches multiple sections of the class and tends to go through things faster in the later sections/forgets to mention something in the earlier ones. Third, make sure that you bring your calculator to class every day and are doing the problems along with him because you need to get comfortable using the calculator and you don't want to be like me having to google how to find a specific function the night before a quiz. Finally, do the homework. There's really not that much, it can just be annoying because he assigns it every day and it feels like middle school all over again. Doing the homework is super helpful, though, because he lets you ask questions about it the next day, and if you didn't do it then you essentially waste part of class time while he answers questions from people who did do it. Also it's not that many problems, and it's the best way to study

What the guy/gal below said. Amen. I too took this class and have long since graduated from Poly, but I was cruising Poly Ratings for a kick and thought that I should pipe in and let you know how much of a joke this prof is.