Questions about administrative stuff for Econ 102, Section 100, Winter 2004: Apr 26: > HI, I am in your econ 102 class. What do you do if the correct answers to > the exams only have one form set of answers? Like on exam II, the answers > are to form 0. I have form 2. I don't really want to keep on emailing my > GSI asking what the correct answer would be. If it is possible couls the > other forms' answers be given? thanks, That would be difficult to do, and I think it is unnecessary. You have your own exam, and the questions are the same on all forms, just in a different order. Just look through the posted exam to find the question you are wondering about, and it will give the answer. Apr 25: > I was just wondering how the grading will be done for this course. I > remember you said in the beginning of the semester that it will be > curved, but I'm curious what you intend the distribution to be (i.e. - x% > A's, y% B's, etc.). As dictated by the department for principles courses: somewhat more than half A's and B's, with of course more B's than A's. Apr 23: > I'm not sure if you mentioned this in class, but for the final exam, > will all the "extra" readings you assigned be covered, or only the ones > after midterm 2? Similarly, will all the articles from the wall street > journal be covered or only the ones after the 2nd midterm? Thanks! The final is cumulative, covering the whole course. That does not, of course, mean that you need to reread anything. Just review your notes and make sure that you still know the answers to the questions I've provided. Apr 18: > I feel heavy pressure on the problems > from the articles on web reading and i was very surprised that i have > more than 50 articles which you recently recommended other than the ones > from wall street journal. I use to read the articles from walstreet > journal as you recommended, but i have not thought about the others from > the web. > Do i have to read and momorize all the contents of that many articles? > That seems obviously impossible to remember that many things even if i > read them all as a not native english speaker. Plz help me and give me > some tips. Well, it is a little late to just now be thinking about doing the reading that was assigned for the course. As has been the case of the earlier exams (which also touched on the readings), the coverage of the readings on the final exam will be relatively small. Given that you have neglected to do it until now, I suggest that you spend your remaining time instead studying the more central course material. You will lose some points on the exam, of course, but overall you will probably do better than if you now neglect the models of the course. If you do decide to try to cover the readings, you should concentrate on the questions that I have posted on each one of them. Any questions that I ask on the exam will be based on those questions. Mar 29: > I am in your econ 102 class currently and enjoy the stocks and bonds, > diversification, etc especially. Is there any upper-level econ courses > that focus on this? Thanks for the info. Yes, Econ 435 deals with that. You should plan to take that after you've first done the prerequisites. I see they list Econ 404/405, but I presume that it also requires Econ 401. The field is called "Finance," and there is a whole department on that in the B-school. Mar 19: > I am reading on the course website that outside readings are required > for the midterm, especially those by Economist, Griswald, etc. Where are > these outside readings? They are on the syllabus, where you can click on "online," and they are also in a course pack. Mar 19: > Will the midterm be cumulitive for the entire semester of econ or will it > just be focussing upon what we have learned since the last midterm? To quote the Exam Information page on the course website: "The second midterm exam will cover all of the material from the beginning of the course through the material assigned for Mar 11 (The Big Picture), with greater emphasis on material covered since the first midterm." You can find more details there. Mar 16: > In homework 7, question 2's instructions says to use the open-economy > model to determine the effects of the changes given below in parts a to > g. There is, however, no part g. The question only goes up to f. Is > that a typo in the instructions or did you forget to include part g? That's a typo. It should have said a to f. Feb 16: > I just had a few questions regarding the exam tomorrow > morning after looking at the practice exam from winter 2003. The syllabus > tells us that the exam will cover chapters 5-10 and parts of 15. This is > the first problem on the practice exam that I attempted. > 1. Suppose that households expect the money supply to increase from 110 > to 121 over the coming year, and that real output (Y) is expected to grow > from $2000 to $2060. Suppose also that, if households put money into > savings deposits, they can earn a 12 percent nominal interest rate. > According to the quantity theory of money (with constant velocity) and > the Fisher equation, households should expect > a real rate of return on their savings deposits of _____ percent. > a) 2 > b) 5 > c) 7 > d) 12 > e) The answer can’t be determined from the information given. > Will questions regarding chapter 12, such as this one, appear tomorrow? No. (By the way, there are no "practice exams," only old exams, which reflect the way the course was organized in previous semesters.) > Laso regarding the questions abotu current news, will those come only > from the assigned readings that you ave poseted online or will they be > from the areas of the paper we have been expected to read daily? Questions will come only from the news items listed online. Feb 14: > I am wondering if we would be tested on the reading assignments in > coursepack 2. > If so, will they be multiple choice questions? Yes, I promise to ask something from those readings. I won't say which part of the exam will include it, but you are welcome to look at the old exams to see what has been done in the past. Feb 13: > I am trying to print the second old exam (winter '02), and the fifth page > won't load. My computer gives me a warning every time I try to get to or > print that page that says "there was an error processing a page. Too few > operands." Any idea what this means, or how we can get that page? Sorry, but I don't seem to be able to fix that. I have the same problem myself when I try to load it, and the original file from which it was made seems to be corrupted as well. Except for getting out of the coursepack, I don't have any suggestions. Feb 9: > When is Econ 102 review session? > Do we have review session? > If not, please make review session. > Studying by myself is so hard. > Review session will be helpful for me and other guys, also. > I hope we can have review session before exam. Yes, there are review sessions scheduled for both Saturday and Sunday. See the Exam Information page at the course website. But do NOT think of these as substitutes for studying by yourself. They are not. Feb 8: > I have been reviewing the materials for Midterm Exam #1, and there was > one link on the course website that didn't work. > It was the article for: Bernstein, Jared, "'Yes, but ...' economy," > Sacramento Bee, Economic Policy Institute, November 20, 2003. The link > http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_viewpoints_yes_but_economy > did not work. > I was wondering if this article is going to be covered on the midterm or > if the link may be updated. The whole website for EPI seems to be down. I expect it will come back up in a day or so. Jan 27: > i live in a fraternity and i am really having a problem receiving my wsj. > i have actually gotten two of them. i called the wsj and they had > originally gotten my address wrong so hopefully they begin to come more > regularly. however, for this articular reading you sent out i don't have > the paper to read it. is this a problem? I have links to the article online. One is through the WSJ homepage, which you should have gotten access to with your print subscription. The other is through Proquest, which is accessible from university computers. Jan 24: > I am also taking Acc 271 whose final exam date is the same as > Econ 102 class. I am just wondering if there is an alternative to the > final exam for this class, because there is no alternative choice in ACC > 271 for students who take it. I heard from the person who teaches the accounting class that they will make some other arrangement. The exam for Econ 102 is at the normal time, so an alternate is not necessary. Simply tell your accounting teacher that you have to be at another exam. It is his or her responsibility to accommodate you. Jan 18: > In what format do you like the homeworks? On regular paper? In a blue > book? Typed? I won't see your homework, so it doesn't matter to me. Unless your GSI tells you otherwise, I would assume that regular paper, stapled together, would be most appropriate. Jan 9: > > From my understanding from the course schedule, we have not had any > > reading from > the text due yet (only online reading). Is this a correct understanding? > I am still adjusting to your course layout. Please explain how you get that impression. The syllabus says that you should have read chapters 1 and 2 for Jan 6 and skimmed chapters 3 and 4. And you should have read chapter 5 for yesterday's class, Jan 8. I am mystified as to how you could have thought otherwise. Jan 8: > I bought the new textbook package, but I cannot find a WSJ order form > in the packaging. There is a booklet that explains how to use the WSJ > for different majors, such as accounting and economics, but there doesn't > seem to be a WSJ order form. Will you be bringing extra order forms to > class tomorrow morning, or should I print and fill out an order form from > WSJ.com for Tuesday's lecture? Neither. The only forms that I have would require that you pay for it separately. If the form is not in your textbook, then take it back to the store where you bought it and exchange it for the correct one. Jan 7: > i need clarification about something on the syllabus; the > readings we are to do, are they to be done by the date listed or are they > the readings for the next class. For example under jan.8 we are to read > chapter 5 and two other readings, are they to be read for class on > january 8th or are they to be done by january 13th being the next time we > meet? thank you. The readings assigned for each class should be done before that class. Jan 7: > How many weeks do you reccomend we subscribe to the WSJ? Also, I > understand that it takes aprox. 2-3 weeks for a daily subscription to > begin and I am planning to order a subscription elsewhere,when are you > sending out the order forms because i would like to send mine at the same > time so i can reveive the WSJ at the same time as most other students in > your section? I think the shortest subscription you can get, outside of the course, is 15 weeks, and that is plenty. The subscriptions included with the text are shorter than that, though I don't know exactly how long. My plan is to send in the card next Tuesday, but if you are subscribing for 15 weeks, you might as well do it now. (None yet)