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Economics vs Business Studies (Subject Choice)
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11-03-2012 10:58pm#1In your opinions, should I choose Economics or Business for Leaving Cert? I just want a few opinions, tbh. I wish to do Accounting (and Geo. and French). I'd like to do LCVP which means two Business or two Sciences and obviously, I wish to do two Business.
Which is a better choice; Economics or Business? Thanks.
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In your opinions, should I choose Economics or Business for Leaving Cert? I just want a few opinions, tbh. I wish to do Accounting (and Geo. and French). I'd like to do LCVP which means two Business or two Sciences and obviously, I wish to do two Business.
Which is a better choice; Economics or Business? Thanks.
Quick note: You might get a better response to this in the LC thread.. Maybe ask a Mod to move it!
Back to your question,
It depends on you really... what are your interests? Which parts of JC Business did you like the most? Geography and Economics is supposed to have a slight over lap but I would just do it because of that.. Maybe try to get a look at the textbooks.. Ask a teacher, Im sure they'll oblige!! Good Luck! 0 -
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In your opinions, should I choose Economics or Business for Leaving Cert? I just want a few opinions, tbh. I wish to do Accounting (and Geo. and French). I'd like to do LCVP which means two Business or two Sciences and obviously, I wish to do two Business.
Which is a better choice; Economics or Business? Thanks.
Hey there, despite my overwhelming workload i'll take a few minutes to help you out. I do both Business and Economics (business in school and Economics as an external subject).
I achieved an A1 + A2 in Business and Economics respectively in the Mock. I love Business and have an amazing teacher, I think the course is handy enough and have revised the course a lot. I do a lot of exam questions and ended up with 92.25% in the Mock.
I started Economics last year outside of school myself after realising 5 Higher Level subjects just wasn't enough. I bought Rapid Revision Economics and Exam papers and started working off the easiest topic in the book. I have never attended a class, had a teacher or homework etc. for Economics and ended up with an A2 (87%) in the Mock.
If I had to give my opinion on the courses in terms of simplicity- Business in the one to go for. If you want a slightly more challenging, but more enjoyable, repetitive and understandable course go for Economics.
If you can't get both, i'd advise you to take Economics outside of school. It's actually so handy and I know if you were determined enough you'd get the course done in 1 year as I did, and you'll probably end up with an A grade! Drop me a PM if you need any other help!
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PictureFrame wrote: »Hey there, despite my overwhelming workload i'll take a few minutes to help you out. I do both Business and Economics (business in school and Economics as an external subject).
I achieved an A1 + A2 in Business and Economics respectively in the Mock. I love Business and have an amazing teacher, I think the course is handy enough and have revised the course a lot. I do a lot of exam questions and ended up with 92.25% in the Mock.
I started Economics last year outside of school myself after realising 5 Higher Level subjects just wasn't enough. I bought Rapid Revision Economics and Exam papers and started working off the easiest topic in the book. I have never attended a class, had a teacher or homework etc. for Economics and ended up with an A2 (87%) in the Mock.
If I had to give my opinion on the courses in terms of simplicity- Business in the one to go for. If you want a slightly more challenging, but more enjoyable, repetitive and understandable course go for Economics.
If you can't get both, i'd advise you to take Economics outside of school. It's actually so handy and I know if you were determined enough you'd get the course done in 1 year as I did, and you'll probably end up with an A grade! Drop me a PM if you need any other help!
Thank you for your help Makes sense. My Business teacher briefly mentioned that Business is just a bit more detail or the theory from the Junior Cert course - so maybe that would make more sense as less time would be needed. I might consider Economics outside of school! Some teachers say you can cover it in a year, so it may be worth looking in to and getting Revsion books, as you said. Thanks for your advice - I'll take it in to account, it helps!
(Thanks to the mod, for the move too!)0 -
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100% go for economics. Its a much smaller course than business. Also, economics is virtually unavoidable at the moment so you'll find it a lot easier to use your common sense with it, rather than with business with the planning, organising, controlling, zzzzzzzzzz etc questions.
Economics, you'll fly it 0 -
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Hey, would you recommend Economics or Business as a better complimentary subject to Accounting? I mean which one has more relevant information for Accounting? I was just wondering which would go hand in hand with the subject? Any replies would be much appreciated!! 0
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Oh well I didn't do economics or accounting :P What I meant was that with so little overlap in business and accounting, I imagine economics would have less. You could do all 3 but that might be a bit of overkill haha. Geography overlaps a lot with economics/business if you do the economic elective, but I'm not sure if history and economics have a lot in common, probably a bit though. No problem.So you would say Economics then. I heard that ultimately, Accounting is for the purpose of making economic decisions. I am determined to be an accountant when I leave school and therefore want to obtain the best basic knowledge possible for it in my LC subjects. And as well, I intend on doing history so economics would overlap slightly with the economic part of history. Thanks for the reply. 0 -
yes , so for econmics u just need rapid revision and work it ur self if i am dng it outdside school.lastly did u learn everthing in the rapid revision by heart or did u use an econmics book as well?PictureFrame wrote: »Hey there, despite my overwhelming workload i'll take a few minutes to help you out. I do both Business and Economics (business in school and Economics as an external subject).
I achieved an A1 + A2 in Business and Economics respectively in the Mock. I love Business and have an amazing teacher, I think the course is handy enough and have revised the course a lot. I do a lot of exam questions and ended up with 92.25% in the Mock.
I started Economics last year outside of school myself after realising 5 Higher Level subjects just wasn't enough. I bought Rapid Revision Economics and Exam papers and started working off the easiest topic in the book. I have never attended a class, had a teacher or homework etc. for Economics and ended up with an A2 (87%) in the Mock.
If I had to give my opinion on the courses in terms of simplicity- Business in the one to go for. If you want a slightly more challenging, but more enjoyable, repetitive and understandable course go for Economics.
If you can't get both, i'd advise you to take Economics outside of school. It's actually so handy and I know if you were determined enough you'd get the course done in 1 year as I did, and you'll probably end up with an A grade! Drop me a PM if you need any other help!0 -
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