01-15-2011 at 11:20 PM
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Geography 2RU3
To those of you who took this course, is the textbook necessary?
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01-15-2011 at 11:34 PM
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I wanted to know the same thing. Can someone who has taken this course please answer this?
Also, how much of the test is from the lecture notes and how much is it from the book?
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01-15-2011 at 11:59 PM
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i would also like to know too... havent bought the text yet
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The text book isn't even in yet. As of Thursday. I was told it would be in on tuesday.
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01-16-2011 at 12:15 AM
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The text book isn't even in yet. As of Thursday. I was told it would be in on tuesday.
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there was a whole bunch of them when i went to the tank after the first class... mustve sold out then
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01-17-2011 at 12:48 PM
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there was a whole bunch of them when i went to the tank after the first class... mustve sold out then
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Yeah I saw quite a few also when I went. But its quite expensive so I don't want to buy unless it is necessary. |
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01-17-2011 at 02:47 PM
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I'm in this course too, and I'm not buying the textbook.
I've taken TONS of classes with Mercier and I've never bought the textbooks. Sometimes, he has one or two questions on the tests that come straight from the book. But pretty much everything else comes from lectures/movies. If you go to all the lectures (I don't mean just getting the notes from someone, you need to actually go) and study, you'll probably do fine.
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I'm in this course too, and I'm not buying the textbook.
I've taken TONS of classes with Mercier and I've never bought the textbooks. Sometimes, he has one or two questions on the tests that come straight from the book. But pretty much everything else comes from lectures/movies. If you go to all the lectures (I don't mean just getting the notes from someone, you need to actually go) and study, you'll probably do fine.
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I can't believe I just spent 115 bucks plus tax for this tiny text book...ugh...
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I'm in this course too, and I'm not buying the textbook.
I've taken TONS of classes with Mercier and I've never bought the textbooks. Sometimes, he has one or two questions on the tests that come straight from the book. But pretty much everything else comes from lectures/movies. If you go to all the lectures (I don't mean just getting the notes from someone, you need to actually go) and study, you'll probably do fine.
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Is it possible to pose an educated guess for the one or two questions and get them right?  |
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I'm in this course too, and I'm not buying the textbook.
I've taken TONS of classes with Mercier and I've never bought the textbooks. Sometimes, he has one or two questions on the tests that come straight from the book. But pretty much everything else comes from lectures/movies. If you go to all the lectures (I don't mean just getting the notes from someone, you need to actually go) and study, you'll probably do fine.
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I took Geog 2MA3 with Mercier and remember someone asking him how much of the test content would be on material from the text book. They essentially asked him if it would be "like 20% or something?" and his reply was "Wow that would be a lot, no its more like 10% or less". I think you are right when you say that nearly all of his test content is from lectures and from what I've read of the book already the extra content is superfluous tidbits he wouldn't realistically test on. |
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Does anyone have any practise midterms for this course?
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