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Economics exams' failure rates

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  • 19-02-2012 5:47pm
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    jakeb33
    Registered Users 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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    Mardy Bum
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    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.


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    Sierra Oscar
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    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%.


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    TimeToShine
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    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.


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    Dannyg90
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    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


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    [Jackass]
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    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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