I've heard that in the past, the Econ 1B03 exams are a killer..
Anyone got any advice on how to prep for it?

Originally Posted by Bubbles1111

I've heard that in the past, the Econ 1B03 exams are a killer..
Anyone got any advice on how to prep for it?

Go through all of the professor's PPT slides and do the questions in them for practice. Go through your quizzes for practice and the review PPT slides the TAs go through before the midterms. Go through her podcasts for sections where you feel you are lacking and need additional help. Go to the "clinic" and ask specific section questions there. Go to the professor's office hours to get help if you need it. She provides a sample exam, it isn't representative of the actual exam at all, but it's good practice nonetheless. A lot of people did bad on the exam because you had to do a lot of various computations in a short period of time. So you really needed to know all of your stuff 100% otherwise you wouldn't get a lot of questions. For example, she had one scenario on the final exam, and she would ask you 6 different computation related questions on it. If you couldn't do one of the questions, you couldn't do like 1-2 other ones related to it..etc.

Originally Posted by herBs

Go through all of the professor's PPT slides and do the questions in them for practice. Go through your quizzes for practice and the review PPT slides the TAs go through before the midterms. Go through her podcasts for sections where you feel you are lacking and need additional help. Go to the "clinic" and ask specific section questions there. Go to the professor's office hours to get help if you need it. She provides a sample exam, it isn't representative of the actual exam at all, but it's good practice nonetheless. A lot of people did bad on the exam because you had to do a lot of various computations in a short period of time. So you really needed to know all of your stuff 100% otherwise you wouldn't get a lot of questions. For example, she had one scenario on the final exam, and she would ask you 6 different computation related questions on it. If you couldn't do one of the questions, you couldn't do like 1-2 other ones related to it..etc.

This is amazing, thank you!

Originally Posted by Bubbles1111

This is amazing, thank you!

You're welcome. If you have any more questions, please do feel free to ask. We're all here to help one another.

go through the math in the slides (assuming you have holmes) extra carefully. understand that math because it is pretty much the same on the exam.

I found the most annoying part was the shear number of multiple choice questions. It tires you out. One of the later portions of the test is going to contain a lot of calculation intense questions all based off of only one or two data sets. I tackled those questions by setting up a system of equations using the information provided in the questions. Then solved them using elimination or something and got the answers to like 10 questions all at once. I wouldnt try to do it like that but its good If you dont know the information you need to. I had more important exams to worry about so didnt study (but still probably pulled 80% or so minimum on exam by knowing stuff from the midterms and knowing how to read a graph).

If you blank on an equation question remember that economics is based a lot on math and the economics in first years is SUPER simple math. Forget you are in an economics exam, take a deep breath, and recall highschool (linear equations) math (or 1st year for that matter). The econ exam isnt hard per se. Its just harder than the midterms and people panic, blank, and do relatively poorly.