Microeconomics

Greetings,

The last module that I would like to discuss a little bit before the next semester is EC2101.

Now being a business student, we would have done managerial economics, which in totality overlaps quite a fair bit with EC2101. I would put the figure around a 30-40% overlap. BSP1005 has a much greater breadth (we also cover game theory), whereas EC2101 goes much more in depth. I would expect myself to have done better seeing that I completed BSP a few years back... but I obviously havent learnt from my mistakes and ended up achieving the same grade again. (Boo!)

The million dollar question is thus: How come take BSP still can take EC?
Answer: Lol I have absolutely no idea. Will this continue in the future? I also have no idea. Seeing that there is still more than half the syllabus which is new, I guess it would serve as reason to allow taking both.

About the finals: So the bell curve is pretty crazy. And the finals is 50%. So even if you mess up all 13 weeks of the module but do insanely well for the finals, congrats you are in relatively good stead. I for one knew I messed up 2 questions of the paper - because I worked out the answer 2 mins after submitting my paper. What a bummer! They totaled 25 marks... (I think?) And so despite my relatively good mid term grades, I only got a B+ for this module, which I attribute entirely to a dismal finals performance. The paper is approximately comprised of 60% relatively easy questions, 40% tough questions ... enough to pass but not enough to score A without standing out. Off hand I do not remember if there were mcq questions (I particularly enjoy them from the mid term), although I do believe that there were none (or definitely less).

Ok to be honest I don't have much else to talk about it. It is run quite similar to BSP.

Happy New Year!

RRR