Great teaching team and fairly straightforward content, especially if you come from a statistics background.

Great subject

Pick the right lecturer!

Good subject

I did this subject in the second semester of my first year. It is a good subject overall and you learn a range of very useful and applicable concepts. IT can be tricky at times trying to figure out how to go about some things though given a lack of clarity in some of the material. Its really important to try and find a good tutor for this one.

Was interesting, but final assessment is a bit ridiculous

Engaging lecturer and my tutor was a life saver. Content on slides can get a bit dry but I found tutorials extremely useful to understand the concepts and work through problems in class.

Very difficult unit if you aren't a maths person or didn't do maths in high school but all things considered this is one of the best compulsory units USYD's business school offers. brandon.uniedu@gmail.com. If you have a decent maths background you'll be fine. There's little point in attending lectures or tutes, the textbook is better than both 90% of the time, just watch the recording right before assessments since Richard Henry will state the answers i.e. how to do the assignment.

Good opportunity for free marks but certainly hard if you haven't done maths at high school. I personally think the USYD commerce degree needs another maths and stats unit in conjunction with this.

A mix of math (matrices,) and statistics. Definitely not hard if you are a math person. Otherwise, need to practice a lot.