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Economics exams' failure rates

  • 19-02-2012 4:47pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11


    Do you know which subjects in Economics/Commerce have the highest exam failure rates (just so I know which one to avoid if possible)?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    Economics and Society, the level one module, used to have a very high rate four or so years ago. Not sure what its like now.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 8,637 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sierra Oscar


    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    Economics and Society, the level one module, used to have a very high rate four or so years ago. Not use what its like now.

    I remember at one stage the failure rate for that module was well above 50%.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,881 ✭✭✭TimeToShine


    intro to microeconomics had a pretty high failure rate last year when i did it from what i heard, everyone thought it would be a doss because the final was MCQ and that took its toll in the end when people turned up hoping to half guess their way through it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭Dannyg90


    intermediate macro is really tough. round 70% failure rate last year, lecturer showed us the list of student numbers of people who failed it and it was literally hundreds


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,193 ✭✭✭[Jackass]


    They pretty much all do.

    Intro to Quantitative Economics had a failure rate well above 50% this year, Economics and Society isn't difficult, but if you don't study you'll fail it, so it has a high failure rate, intro to micro and macro can be tricky enough, and have a slightly high failure rate, but it's mostly Economic majors doing that, so it's not too bad, Econ and Society is usually electives for non-economic students, hence the higher failure rate imo.


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