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No MCQs?!

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  • 24-03-2008 6:37pm
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    HoldOnTight
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43 ✭


    Went looking for past MCQs for Principles of Microeconomics (ECON10010) in the exam website but to no avail:( It merely says they are not available...does anyone know where I can find them?


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    ant043
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    mcq exams are not available for any courses i think. There are only a limited number of questions they can ask.


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    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    HoldOnTight wrote: »
    Went looking for past MCQs for Principles of Microeconomics (ECON10010) in the exam website but to no avail:( It merely says they are not available...does anyone know where I can find them?

    There's a couple (edit: read 7) of multiple choice assignments on the Assignment section of the blackboard page. I assume the questions will be very similar, and sure you know the exam format from Macro last symmester.


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    redcar
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    With Micro and the MCQ's take my advice, look at the sample MCQ's they put on Blackboard, learn it, learn it and then learn it some more. I studied the book, while my friend just learned the MCQ's and he got the A. They just re hash the questions.


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    Mushy
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    redcar wrote: »
    With Micro and the MCQ's take my advice, look at the sample MCQ's they put on Blackboard, learn it, learn it and then learn it some more. I studied the book, while my friend just learned the MCQ's and he got the A. They just re hash the questions.

    Thank you so much for that. I really better start cramming/showing to lectures!:o


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    Breezer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭Breezer


    redcar wrote:
    TWith Micro and the MCQ's take my advice, look at the sample MCQ's they put on Blackboard, learn it, learn it and then learn it some more. I studied the book, while my friend just learned the MCQ's and he got the A. They just re hash the questions..
    Academia, lifelong learning, lack of good Christian morals, young people these days, the end is nigh, etc. etc.

    Sorry, couldn't resist :D


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    Stabshauptmann
    Registered Users Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭Stabshauptmann


    Breezer wrote: »
    Academia, lifelong learning, lack of good Christian morals, young people these days, the end is nigh, etc. etc.

    Sorry, couldn't resist :D

    But thats the lecturers fault not the students. the students are simply applying the system: necessary inputs for desired results. Its a flawed system...


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    lemon_sherbert
    Registered Users Posts: 716 ✭✭✭lemon_sherbert


    Plus the lecturer was hinting heavily that the problem MCQs he put up online are going to be useful for the exam


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    Stabshauptmann
    Registered Users Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭Stabshauptmann


    lemon_sherbert wrote: »
    Plus the lecturer was hinting heavily that the problem MCQs he put up online are going to be useful for the exam

    I took the course and was one of the never went to lectures yet got an A people :D


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    hansman
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    I did the module last year. Really easy if you know the past MCQ's it gets very repetitive. Lectures are a bit of a waste of time. I have a load of past MCQ's and solutions. PM me if ya want me to send them to you.


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    Breezer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,228 ✭✭✭Breezer


    Kaptain Redeye wrote: »
    But thats the lecturers fault not the students. the students are simply applying the system: necessary inputs for desired results. Its a flawed system...
    I know, I was taking the mick out of the mad threads that crop up here from time to time ;) I've done some MCQ learning in my time, don't worry. Although beware, you can get royally screwed by doing it - at Christmas we had reams and reams of past MCQs for a particular subject and not one of them came up on the actual exam. Fortunately I studied properly on that occasion :D


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    Stepherunie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭Stepherunie


    A friend of mine often worked on the principle of it's easier to write a true statment than a false one for anatomy mcqs. Thus he always ticked true unless he knew the statment to be false.

    As far as I know, he never failed one and that was with a 50% pass rate


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    Notorious
    Registered Users Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭Notorious


    Stepherunie wrote:
    A friend of mine often worked on the principle of it's easier to write a true statment than a false one for anatomy mcqs. Thus he always ticked true unless he knew the statment to be false.

    As far as I know, he never failed one and that was with a 50% pass rate

    Wow, fair play to him! Only problem with economics is that generally each mcq has four or five answers, none are true and false.:( That'd be way easier!


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