Only take this course if you are going to major in Econ!
The course consists of 4 exams—3 midterms and a final (lowest grade gets dropped)—and they make up 75% of the grade. The other 25% consists of homework (10%), lecture quizzes (5%), and attendance quizzes (5%). Both LQs and AQs are based on completion, and only HWs are graded on accuracy. The other 5% comes from completing PACE assignments.
Kripalani is a good instructor, as she makes the class very accessible by posting lecture slides and also all the review videos so that we can double-check our work. She is also very helpful during office hours and is quite accommodating with various different circumstances. The HWs can be quite challenging and tricky, and some weeks, she provides hints to help us solve them quicker and also gives us more hints during office hours to students who turn up often. The practice and review problems are very similar to the ones that show up on exams. The main problem in this class is that there is not enough time to work on all the questions on the exam. The final is longer than the midterms, so it is probably the easiest one to finish in terms of timing. She did stop releasing lecture recordings after the 2nd exam due to a low average but would release them the week of the midterm. This was slightly unfair to the students who really make an effort by going to lecture, but I do understand the logic behind it. I would also recommend brushing up on Calc I math and also partial derivatives before attempting this class, as a lot of it is used in the material. Even though the math review is provided, a more comprehensive review is required to attempt this course's math component. Overall, a difficult class where an A is definitely possible with consistent practice, attending lectures, going to office hours, and participating in discussion sections. A time commitment of at least 7 hours should be put aside for this class if you really want to get an A. At the end of the day, I would say that Professor Kripalani is a good professor to take this course with, as there is a great degree of consistency in her course with regard to exam questions correlating to what is taught in class.

I genuinely think that Kripalani is an amazing professor and wants to set you up for success. Yes, this class is hard but it is very contingent on the effort that you put into this class. Put in the work, and you will get rewarded. The class is very dependent on math, so make sure you practice a lot, especially with the extra practice problems that she supplements. Every lecture is recorded, but I HIGHLY recommend not skipping a single lecture. Grading break down: 10% HW, 10% Lecture Quizzes, 5% PACE Assignments, 75% exams (4 exams each 25%, lowest is dropped). One LQ and HW are dropped - PACE is a free 100%, LQs aren't bad at all especially if you have a group. However, HWs can be challenging, but she really encourages you to come to office hours because she will 100% help you succeed with them. For exams, they are a little difficult, but the biggest thing to note is that you are in a time crunch; work as fast and efficient as possible. As long as you go to all lectures, complete the LQs, HWs and Extra Practice's without BS'ing them, you will be good. She gives a LOT of extra credit opportunity, so make sure you take advantage of all of them. I ended with an A in the class, but it was because of time I spent for this class, completing all the extra credit, and a very generous final grade curve (90.2 rounded to a 91, which was the new threshold for an A). Good luck to everyone taking it!

Don’t get me wrong this class is HARD, but if you truly take the time to learn the material you will be fine. Attending lectures is really important to stay up to date because once you fall behind it becomes difficult to catch up, and you should expect to put in a lot of work outside the classroom (around 5 to 7 hrs a week). Prof Kripalani records her lectures which are meant to be used for reviewing the material rather than skipping class, and she also posts extra practice problems along with video solutions that are extremely helpful when studying. One lecture quiz and one homework assignment are dropped which helps relieve some pressure and there is typically a lecture quiz after each class along with one homework assignment per week. I started the semester with a F to D+ in the class, but after locking in and staying consistent I finished with a B- so it is definitely possible to make a comeback. The course includes three unit exams and a final with the lowest exam score getting dropped. The grading breakdown is 25% homework, lecture quizzes, and PACE assignments, and 75% exams. For my semester, the curve was two points and final grades were rounded up to the next whole number (ex. 79.01 became an 80). Overall, I really enjoyed Kripalani as a prof and would highly recommend taking ECON 3010 with her.

Professor Kripilani is an amazing teacher. Her lectures have great content, that while difficult, is doable if you really pay attention in lecture. Even if you do not pay attention, all lectures are recorded and there is tons of additional content to prepare for exams. She understands that the content is hard, so she works hard to make it as easy as possibly for us to learn. The biggest piece of advice is for students to do ALL the extra credit / extra practice before exams, as the exams are pretty similar to those problems. All in all, difficult class, but very rewarding.

Professor Kripalani was great. She is very responsive to questions. Course is very organized and easy to follow. The course requires you to put in effort but it is all manageable. Study past assignments and you will likely do well on the tests. Lots of partial credit in this class.

I think Professor Kripalani has improved and refined her course compared to some of the more dated comments on this forum.

Before diving into the pros and cons of taking Intermediate Micro with Kripalani versus Troyan or Westerfield, I want to emphasize that you should not take this course if you aren’t extremely comfortable with long and elaborate algebra. The issue with this course isn’t that the material is inherently difficult—it's that if you haven’t taken a course beyond Calc II, a physics class, or you generally don’t consider yourself a “math person,” the pace at which she expects you to manipulate variables can feel overwhelming.

Many people confuse the difficulty of the class with the reality that some students are simply more prepared and have much stronger math backgrounds. That said, Kripalani consistently has a higher A rate and average GPA than every other Intermediate Micro professor, with a surprisingly high A+ rate as well

Due to the wide variation in students' math backgrounds and abilities, the exam scores have a notably large spread and standard deviation. If I recall correctly, around 30% of students get an A, while another 30% fail altogether.

To summarize: if you’re comfortable with math, this course will feel incredibly easy. If you’re not, you’ll likely be very stressed throughout the semester, but with some hard work, you’ll probably still end up with at least a B+, thanks to the generous grading curve and extra credit opportunities.

One misconception I'd like to clear up that other reviews haven't mentioned is that the actual math background needed for this class isn't expansive - everyone has it as long as they've taken Calc I. The real issue is that her exams contain more questions than can comfortably be completed in the given time. I vividly remember the first exam where time ran out, and almost no one had finished. Exams typically consist of about seven multi-part problems (a through d), which can feel like completing 10-12 lecture quizzes in just 75 minutes. On the first exam, I struggled but quickly adapted my pace and performed well on subsequent exams. My primarily and only complaint for this course remains the overly fast pace and unnecessarily extensive algebra required on the exams.

In one sentence, I can summarize everything you learn in this course: you have a mathematical function representing a firm's total cost or total profit, and to maximize profit or minimize cost, you simply take a partial derivative and set it equal to zero. There are a few algebraic setup steps afterward, but often there's so much math it fills more than a page. This makes algebraic mistakes common when you have to solve 8-10 problems plus several bizarre graphing questions in one exam. The entire course involves nothing but simple differentiation and complex algebra. It'd honestly be more appropriate to rename this class as "Partial Derivatives and Algebraic Manipulation for Profit-Maximizing Firms." I genuinely learned nothing about economics.

With this context, it's easier to understand why the course is controversial. It's not inherently hard, but some students aren’t comfortable enough with math to properly pace themselves during exams. Those who move quickly find it easy. It's definitely a questionable way to weed students out of an econ degree.

Dr. Kripalani is fully aware of the pacing issue she creates. And as such, you get to drop an exam (you take 4 exams, but only 3 count if you sit for the final). Many students secure their A early and skip the final. The final is tough only b/c there are so many scenarios and math setups to memorize. However, I heard you get double time on the final, which should alleviate pacing concerns for many. Exams count for 25% each (75% total), and there are numerous extra credit opportunities. If you complete most extra credit assignments and miss just a few lecture quizzes, homework assignments, and PACE assignments, your homework category could exceed 25%, adding an extra 1-2 points to your final grade. If diligent, missing nothing and completing all homework accurately, you could gain up to 3-4 percentage point boost on your final grade. Additionally, she applies about a 3.5-point curve at the end of the course and around 3-3.5% curves to some midterms, so even with high 70s to low 80s on all exams, you could still earn you an A.

Overall, Dr. Kripalani’s section is likely the easiest to get an A in. She’s an engaging lecturer, highly responsive, and supportive. Still, you'll feel stressed knowing her exams are dense and algebraically intensive. There's no textbook, and everything runs through Teams and Gradescope, which is inconvenient, but there's plenty of practice material closely aligned with the exams.

THIS IS A HARD CLASS. There's a reason why it's known as the econ weeder class. You can't go into it expecting to put in minimal effort and pass. However, Kripalani is definitely the best prof to take this class with. She explains things in class and is really really helpful in office hours too. You can email her or message her over Teams and she responds to questions very quickly. She encourages students to submit regrade requests after exams and is very generous with them. Make sure you go to every single lecture, take notes, and do all the practice problems and extra credit. #tCFS25

Professor Kripalani was nice. She is really responsive on Teams for DMs at basically anytime from 6am to 9pm for any kinds of questions. For the course content itself, I believe it's probably the hardest 3010 course content among all the profs afaik but if you put one hour per day to go over and review the content it wasn't even hard. It's basically all about the process of using calculus and algebra to deal with economic questions, so make sure you are familiar with calc1. Once you fully understand the core process of dealing with different kinds of question (basically 6-8 kinds of questions for each unit) you will be fine but it certainly takes time. Please spend a whole week or even more to prepare for all 3 midterms (like at least 2-3 hrs per day will be appropriate) in order to make sure you can get 90 or more on midterms. Personally speaking the course content itself is not that hard to understand and to master it. She would sometimes give extra credits on both exams and assignments which is a huge plus for our grade. For the 25% non-exam section of the entire score, I scored 111/100 and this is all due to the help of extra credit, and I could even do better. As a result, many people ended with A/A-/B+ for this course, which wasn't that bad.

However it's a super time consuming course and I wouldn't recommend taking this course if you overloaded the credits like I do. The grade components are 3 exams (one to be dropped among midterm 1-3 and the finals) that weighs 25% each and the remaining 25% for non-exam categories (where you can easily score more than a 100 if you put effort in assignments). I personally would suggest people to make as much effort for the first three midterms because you can easily earn something around 90 if you reviewed appropriately. For this semester, the final was he!l hard (thankfully she curved the scores hard) and it's on May 1st so we gonna wrap up as all the content within one semester within limited time, so it's not worth it if you simply think you can lay off for a midterm and try to take the final instead. DO NOT THINK ABOUT TAKING THE FINAL UNLESS U WANNA CHALLENGE URSELF. Also, after the midterm exam 3, there'll be one more unit that will come up in the finals but not in any of the midterms fo think about it. The assignments are designed that you can drop 1 HWs and 2 LQs, so if you done all assignments and 3 prior exams as well as all the extra credits she gave well, you can just quit this course before a week the course ended (while she go on for unit 4 and assign 1HWs and 2LQs) if you figured out that you can secure a satisfied grade letter for your total grade after calculation. For all the four tests, there won't be any new course content before the exam and she will spend one lecture reviewing all important questions: THESE ARE IMPORTANT AND CAN SHOW UP ON EXAMS

Anyway the all slides questions, lq, HW, and especially the lecture before the exam are all important for test prep so make sure to lock ur a$$ in before the tests and try not get an A secured without taking the finals. This is certainly doable and wasn't even that hard (I wish I could know this before I go to this course. Reviewing the finals and see all the 3 prior exams were easy peasy was a huge regret for me as I didn't lock in in the early 50% of the semester).

She also made improvements btw. Y'all see that people complaining that she won't post slides before? From this semester on she not only did but also post recored lectures. To sum up she's good and can't be wrong if you plan to take ECON 3010 but make sure you can plenty of time dedicated to this course. If you find yourself overloaded then just drop this course and take it another time.

This course is not an easy class, and you should expect to be putting in a lot of time into it. However, Kripalani cares so much about her students and is easily accessible through email or office hours. You cannot skip class and expect to do well on the exams, however, discussions were unhelpful to me as my TA was terrible, so I stopped going halfway through the semester and just did the problems on my own. I hired a tutor for the first half of the semester, but eventually did not need the extra help by the 2nd midterm. There are 3 midterms and a final, and one gets dropped, so I did not have to take the final, which was relieving. This course is laid out very clearly and organized, so if you put in the work, the course gets easier as you go. Kripalani is a great instructor, and I felt I learned a ton in this semester. if you are prepared for a challenging class, take 3010 with Kripalani.

Professor Kripalani’s class was not quite what I expected when I enrolled in Microeconomics 3010. Previously, I had seen notes from Professor Santugini’s version of the course and was anticipating a more concept-to-example structure. In contrast, Professor Kripalani’s teaching style placed a stronger emphasis on application rather than foundational theory, so I would recommend having some prior exposure to microeconomics before taking this class.

The homework assignments were quite challenging—often more difficult than the exams—and required a good amount of time and effort to complete. Attending office hours was extremely helpful and probably the best strategy for keeping up with the coursework.

I scored above 90% on all three midterm exams, so I was exempt from taking the final. For exam preparation, I highly recommend reviewing the presentation slides carefully and completing all the extra weekly practice problems provided. I personally found these much more helpful than the discussion section materials, which felt more difficult than the exams themselves.

There were a few opportunities for extra credit at the end of the semester, which helped offset any points lost from homework or lecture quizzes. Among the exams, I found Exam 1 to be the hardest and Exam 2 the easiest.

Overall, don’t stress too much—if you stay consistent, make use of the resources provided, and put in the effort, you’ll do well in the course.