Hey Everyone,

So I'm taking Microecon right now, and surprisingly - I'm finding it quite tough! I consider myself a good student and have never seen C's in a long time, but I don't know why Econ just is NOT working out for me. I study hard for the tests, do the assignments and quizzes. Does anyone have any advice about how to do well and how I can recover from my poor performance?

Thanks

It's terrible how many people cheat on the quizzes and tests. Holmes doesn't change anything. When the TAs hand out the quizzes people just go through and grab the version they want. As someone who doesn't cheat, you should should be outraged.

I'm not going to lie. Micro is easy UNTIL the final exam. Theres a lot of calculations that are usually grouped together (as in if you get on number wrong you get the rest of the question wrong). I was doing really well in that class until that final exam which really hurt my mark. So my advice: start studying now. But if your good at math dont worry about it.

For a second, I read the title as "How to do well in Moron" lol

first of all, do u have the answers? majority of micro students do have the assignments so they are good for practice knowing answers. that also includes lotsa past tests. practice is key, her lectures really suck (i dont go to her classes at all) jsut take notes on slides and practice

I demolish the tests (and I read the slides the night before), however the way I study this is repetition, lots of it. Just keep rewriting the formulas, terms until they're second nature. Do this while thinking about it logically, so you remember everything AND understand it. Also, practice tests: get ahold of them, and repeatedly do them. The quizzes? Do them too.

For the people who have taken econ before.... How hard is the Exam compared to the tests?

Originally Posted by Ardougne

For the people who have taken econ before.... How hard is the Exam compared to the tests?

The exam is more difficult than the tests in my opinion, at least for the two first-year courses. If I recall correctly, in both courses the second test was a little more difficult than the first, and the exam was a little more difficult than the second test.

Originally Posted by alh24

The exam is more difficult than the tests in my opinion, at least for the two first-year courses. If I recall correctly, in both courses the second test was a little more difficult than the first, and the exam was a little more difficult than the second test.

Should I focus my studying towards calculations, more than theory?

calculations+graphs. also know common trends like determinants that cause change, and what happens to this when u change that

The exam is essentially a third midterm, the majority of the questions will be new stuff that wasn't covered on the first two midterms. The hard questions will be the calculation questions based on monopoly, ogilowhateverthe****i tscalledopoly, etc. The other questions will be the same difficulty and style as the two midterms.

would 4 days be a sufficient amount of time?

4 days? i studied for an hour...

edit: last year

this is a breeze course and attending class is not important. The book is useless (well i dont know since i bought it but never opened it). You dont need to have any background in econ to understand the material. read and absorb the slides well, and rather than memorizing use intuition to understand it. Get all the assignments, tests and quizzes from the past years and since they will be good practice for the exam, and they may help u through the year. For the exam, start preparing well in advance for the math problems, since they will depend on the previous answer in order for u to get the next one. :S