Difficulty of Economics in University

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**I've searched through the forums and cannot find one to answer my question so I said i'd start a new one.

Hi there. I'm in Leaving Certificate now and have just completed my Mocks. My first option on the CAO is the BCL Law and Arts degree in NUI Maynooth. I am trying to decide what I may decide to study as my Minor Arts subjects whilst completing this degree.
I do Economics as an external subject in school, I took it up last Janurary and have never had a class, gone to grinds etc. I did my Mock 4 weeks ago and got my result back today which was: 87% (A2) in Honours.
I like Economics as a subject and hope to achieve an A1 in it, however i've been told by friends and teachers who have studied Economics that it is extremely difficult. Is this the case? I am of average intelligence in Maths, having achieved 75% (B2) in Pass in my Mocks, would this be a problem for me considering Economics in college?

Thanks for any replies in advance, I appreciate how busy you all must be at the present time, thanks a million.

dillo2k10

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**I've searched through the forums and cannot find one to answer my question so I said i'd start a new one.

Hi there. I'm in Leaving Certificate now and have just completed my Mocks. My first option on the CAO is the BCL Law and Arts degree in NUI Maynooth. I am trying to decide what I may decide to study as my Minor Arts subjects whilst completing this degree.
I do Economics as an external subject in school, I took it up last Janurary and have never had a class, gone to grinds etc. I did my Mock 4 weeks ago and got my result back today which was: 87% (A2) in Honours.
I like Economics as a subject and hope to achieve an A1 in it, however i've been told by friends and teachers who have studied Economics that it is extremely difficult. Is this the case? I am of average intelligence in Maths, having achieved 75% (B2) in Pass in my Mocks, would this be a problem for me considering Economics in college?

Thanks for any replies in advance, I appreciate how busy you all must be at the present time, thanks a million.

Hi,

I'm doing a Finance and Economics degree in Maynooth. I decided not to do the math part of my degree as I too only done pass Math. If you are studying economics there will be some math but once you are willing to try at it you will be fine.

Im only in First year so the math done is not all that much, Im doing Qualitative Analysis module right now which is just an introduction to economic math and so far its all good and pretty easy, however, I don't know what it will be like next year, you could always choose the modules you want to minimise your exposure to math.

And even if you do end up with a lot of math and struggle with it then you will have no problem finding help from your lecturers, tutors or other support places like the math support place.

I was terrifed of the math aspect of my course before I started but now its all good

Economcs in the LC is completly different to economics in University, a lot of what you learn in the LC is complete rubbish. So it wont matter weather you get an A1 at Higher Economics or a fail at ordinary.

Good luck :P

Eroticplants

Howdy,

I'm in my second year of economics and finance in college right now. I did not do my leaving cert and am thriving in my course having recently won an award for being in the top 5% of students.
Economic maths is simples.
One of my lecturers came in one day, said her daughter is doing economics in leaving cert and this one a question on some exam blah blah blah.
She said it took her 3hours to figure it out and she showed it to 5 other economic lecturers in the college who had equal difficulty with it, I don't know if this is just a bad sign for my college :P but she said that leaving cert economics is a trillion times different to economics being done in college so relax.

J.D.R

I'm currently doing single honours economice in my second year and I can tell you, if you got anything above a C3 in the LC, you'll barely have to attend lecture in first year.

Most of the module course in the first semester was introducing the topics from the ground up (explaining an equilibrium in demand and supply) and giving you an introduction to economics as a whole. If also teaches you what economics actually is, and makes you understand why Marginal Propensity to Consume exists, instead of just telling you how to answer a question on it in the summer.

Basically, once you go to the lectures you need to in order to get a grasp of the new terminology, and go to your tutorials and lab sessions (where you will be shown how you answer questions in economics) you will be sailing through no bother if you've a previous knowledge of the subject

Effluo

I'd go along with JDR for 1st year lectures. People told me that leaving cert economics is different to what's taught in University??

First year was basically the same except it's taught in a terrible way. I used my leaving cert book to study for my first year economics exams. IIRC even second year the book was still relevant.

The maths in economics is very simple, the way I always describe the difficulty of finance & economics courses is that, "it's like learning an easy science subject with really really bad notes"

I really find that my lecturers have a terrible habit of giving you a formula and barely telling what the ruddy thing does! Tutorials will be your saviour, go to them, practice the questions and it's a doddle.