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Leaving cert economics
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29-06-2017 8:50pm#1
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Hey!
How hard is economics?
I'm not going to lie and say it's easy. Every subject is a challenge. It is tough enough in the micro section to get your head around concepts, but once you go through them over and over and ask questions it's easier. I'd say costs of production, labour, capital and money and banking are the toughest chapters. It really just requires a lot of thinking and isn't common sense like business. What I'm trying to say is it's more of an understanding and getting to grips with subject. I taught myself half of the micro topics in 4th year but found it hard enough learning it by myself and had to ask my dad for help a fair amount of the time as I couldn't understand the book. But now it makes so much more sense learning it in school as I was fortunate enough to get the subject running with 6 others.
Would I be able to get an A or B doing it totally by myself for two years ?
Yes, a B definitely (H3). Economics is very to the point which is great. You don't need long enough answers like business. However to get an A would be extremely hard because 1) nobody can predict what will appear or how you'll feel on the day, and 2) unfortunately, topical stuff appears every year which nobody can fully prepare for. This year's paper especially showed how you really had to use your head. I myself struggle with thinking outside the box.
I am also going to do business.Does business overlap with economics?
Yes. They overlap to a certain extent. Mostly in macro which we haven't done so I can't comment onhow much but definitely they do.
Does studying business make economics easier? Is economics all rote learning like business?
I wouldn't really say it does. They're two completely different subjects.
What is the best economics book to buy and where can I get good economic notes? Would economics take away time from any other subjects?
To be honest, I have Positive Economics. It's not really a great book but the others are worse and older. I think there's only one other book apart from it. There's quite a lot of mistakes according to my teacher in it. It's good for doing questions at the end of the chapter and it has all the definitions at the back of the book, but for diagrams, especially the markets, it's just a no no. What I do is I use the businessguys.ie. They have notes on all the Economics chapters and they're great. I also printed off all the marking schemes to the past papers. This is great because you get an idea of what is being asked and how many points you need to give. I personally think it would slightly effect other subjects as you would need to study it at least 1 day in the week and give it as much time as the others. It is a short course, but there's a lot of different ways things can be asked and 1000000 times more understanding to be done than business.
Finally apart from music and applied maths are there any easier and better subjects to do outside of school other than economics?
Not really. Geography is easy but there's a project and SO MUCH learning. Music would be good to take up if you play an instrument to a good standard. Applied maths is quite challenging from what I heard, especially if you do ordinary maths and don't have a natural ability. Then again, it could be easy for someone else etc etc.
Sorry this isn't the best. Hope I helped you. I'm going into 6th year and I do Business and Economics so if you need any more help feel free to PM me!!
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Hey!
How hard is economics?
I'm not going to lie and say it's easy. Every subject is a challenge. It is tough enough in the micro section to get your head around concepts, but once you go through them over and over and ask questions it's easier. I'd say costs of production, labour, capital and money and banking are the toughest chapters. It really just requires a lot of thinking and isn't common sense like business. What I'm trying to say is it's more of an understanding and getting to grips with subject. I taught myself half of the micro topics in 4th year but found it hard enough learning it by myself and had to ask my dad for help a fair amount of the time as I couldn't understand the book. But now it makes so much more sense learning it in school as I was fortunate enough to get the subject running with 6 others.
Would I be able to get an A or B doing it totally by myself for two years ?
Yes, a B definitely (H3). Economics is very to the point which is great. You don't need long enough answers like business. However to get an A would be extremely hard because 1) nobody can predict what will appear or how you'll feel on the day, and 2) unfortunately, topical stuff appears every year which nobody can fully prepare for. This year's paper especially showed how you really had to use your head. I myself struggle with thinking outside the box.
I am also going to do business.Does business overlap with economics?
Yes. They overlap to a certain extent. Mostly in macro which we haven't done so I can't comment onhow much but definitely they do.
Does studying business make economics easier? Is economics all rote learning like business?
I wouldn't really say it does. They're two completely different subjects.
What is the best economics book to buy and where can I get good economic notes? Would economics take away time from any other subjects?
To be honest, I have Positive Economics. It's not really a great book but the others are worse and older. I think there's only one other book apart from it. There's quite a lot of mistakes according to my teacher in it. It's good for doing questions at the end of the chapter and it has all the definitions at the back of the book, but for diagrams, especially the markets, it's just a no no. What I do is I use the businessguys.ie. They have notes on all the Economics chapters and they're great. I also printed off all the marking schemes to the past papers. This is great because you get an idea of what is being asked and how many points you need to give. I personally think it would slightly effect other subjects as you would need to study it at least 1 day in the week and give it as much time as the others. It is a short course, but there's a lot of different ways things can be asked and 1000000 times more understanding to be done than business.
Finally apart from music and applied maths are there any easier and better subjects to do outside of school other than economics?
Not really. Geography is easy but there's a project and SO MUCH learning. Music would be good to take up if you play an instrument to a good standard. Applied maths is quite challenging from what I heard, especially if you do ordinary maths and don't have a natural ability. Then again, it could be easy for someone else etc etc.
Sorry this isn't the best. Hope I helped you. I'm going into 6th year and I do Business and Economics so if you need any more help feel free to PM me!!
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