This is a great introduction to the fundamentals of finance course. Professor Wachter is very clear and concise in her lectures and examples. The provided lecture notes are a great supplement to the recorded lectures.

The only negative thing about this course is the quiz, specifically how it is graded. There were numerous problems in multiple quizes that marked the correct answer as being incorrect. Or the answers required too many decimal places of precision to be marked correct. Ex: inputing .12 instead of 0.1200 would be marked wrong. This is stupid and an unnecessary hassle. Perhaps this is an issue with Coursera itself and not the course itself, but either way it should be addressed.

This was a fantastic course, that was taught extremely well by Professor Wachter. I really learned a lot from the short videos and in-depth explanations and wonderfully detailed topic notes at the end of each section. The only improvement I would suggest is showing the correct answers on the quizzes and having ready explanations, instead of making us guess what the answer is, without reason as to how we get those answers.

well explanation. Kinda hard for beginner, but because I have learnt about it in my mother language I can understand about it. Other things that might help you to finish this course by talking with another participant in discussion forum. I hope this could help you guys for finishing the course. Good luck :)

I really think it is on par with a real Penn education. The professor was very knowledgeable about the subject yet the one thing I had a major problem with were the quizzes. Very little support structure to help you improve on the quizzes. And it was very hard to pass them because there was no feedback available. Additionally, the decimal points are confusing and how to round them correctly took a lot of time.

Quizzes can be moderated in a more precise manner as answers seem to be incorrect for certain questions.Not all correct answers are accepted and there is inconsistency in the degree to which answers must be rounded off to throughout the course.That being said,course notes and lectures are easy to understand and the instructor does a great job in laying out the key information in a clear and concise manner.

It is a good course. The only thing why I didnt give a 5 star is that the course quiz had some questions that even if I was entering a correct value the answer would be wrong, the reason of this would be because the coursera changes its questions values and all, but it does'nt update its answer sheet accordingly. That's why I was only able to score 72 percent.

The course was quite confusing. Some lectures were good, nice pace. general idea explained well. But then quizes are so out of context. frazing is very strange, very demotivating. Students had to discuss not the lectures/info but trying to solve tests together. This is not ok for learning.

the course was good but the content lack detailed explanation of some terms and detailed explanation of examples properly. some quiz question were same as the example discussed but the answer was ultimately coming wrong. i wont recommend this course for beginners in finance.

Some answers need to be updated and corrected. The course lectures do not cover some of the more complicated questions that would appear on the quiz and I had to find my own ways of solving some of the problems as there is very little response to questions.

Quizzes are very messy i.e. some questions are worded confusingly, some fields expect a percentage answer where the answer is actually supposed to be a numerical one, otherwise the course content is an 8/10.

There should have been many more examples and the quizzes after you submit them should should you the correct answer and how it was obtained.

I am certain this is a good course, but no way is it a Beginner level. I was overwhelmed in the first 5 minutes.

Lectures and material were not self sufficient - i had use other videos and books to learn the content

This course was frustrating. There are errors and inconsistencies in the notes and exams, which makes it very frustrating. I lost a lot of time because, e.g. one answer required you to round differently from the other answers. Also, not all of the exam questions are straight-up applications of the examples in the lectures; instead, many are "applied" questions, where you have to stretch your understanding to know how to use the equations. I understand why this is a valuable type of question for achieving true learning, but in a learning scenario where you can't go back to the teacher and ask "why am I getting this wrong," and especially given how confusing the notes are, it is extremely frustrating.

Maybe I expected something else but this course was way too difficult for a beginner in the subject. The professor is lackluster and not inspiring. The first quiz was impossible to solve without a lot of previous knowledge of mathematical models and equations. There was literally no introduction to finance as a whole. It goes straight into complex equations and maths.

I feel like the course is not for beginners. We spend a lot of time on the formulas but the course lacks overall contextualization and explanation of the basic concepts.

It is very hard to remember formulas when there's no concrete application and solid examples to attach them to.

Very complicated course, some questions of quizes are confusing, some errors in rounding of answers in quizzes, lack of explanatory material. A lot of times, you have to depend on discussion forums or googling the formulas and hoping you find the right formula...

Occasional rounding errors in Quiz answers, a reasonable amount of important info is brushed over rather than actually covered by the lecturer, instead, minutes are wasted covering multiple different ways of answering the same question.

I suggest to find in a different way to explain, calculations and everything related with them. Its difficult to understand how you showed us

Nice supplementary materials but the lecturer basically repeats them without much contextual explanation to provide more insights or reasons.

very solid information but its not really a audit if they make you sign up to take the quizes. Loved this app but then they made this...

Good information, somewhat hard to understand when based solely on lectures and notes. Wasn't a very enjoyable course.

Lectures were definitely not enough to cover quizzes

its not for beginners.

I found that the professor implied that the student's had prior knowledge and would imply many things throughout the course. Add that to the fact that there is no exercises to execute (you go directly from the online lectures and text material to the test) and it creates a difficult formula to learn. I had to refer to external online sources to compliment my learning to be able to complete the course. All in all, I did learn and got a good grade in the end, but I just thought that the teaching methodology wasn't the best for the online format. A sort of summary version of lectures, no exercises, and then straight to the test.