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Riamfada

What an easy paper. God I love that subject. Now just classics to worry about

Prezatch

Yea very nice micro section (first 4 long questions). Was a little bit more "wordy" than usual and the absence of a full elasticity question was kinda annoying but they made up for that with the first question on demand- easy peeesey. Thought the shorts were lovely too. The departement seriously loves consumer surplus...

*marie*

Why is opportunity cost central to the study of economics???I've necer heard that before i just defined it and said that firms have to make a lot of choices!

Prezatch

Well economics is about the consumer, producer and supplier of factors of production who all have to make opportunity cost descions. oh and teh gov. too. So i suppose thats why its "central"

rose**

i thought it was really tricky was getting caught out on lots of things

was just disappointed i suppose

donegal lassie

WOOHOO!! it wasnt too bad...waffled my way thru loads of areas!!! now sum partyin to be done in donegal!!!! WOOHOO!!

EdgarAllenPoo

I hate the micro stuff and I always found I was better at the macro stuff. The paper gave some very nice macro questions so with the exception of one questions I was able to avoid the micro stuff completely.
The short questions on the other hand I found particularly hard, I had a two year course to cover in one year and focused on what I found was the easiest that being macro stuff and apart from a few Q's I think I struggled with the short Q's. I'd say I got between a D3 and a C3 which is fine with me.
One final thing, I was the only one in an exam hall that normally has about fifty or sixty people in it, made me feel like a right wally.

the smiley one

rose** wrote:

i thought it was really tricky was getting caught out on lots of things

was just disappointed i suppose

ditto, thought it was a difficult paper....got stuff wrong that I shouldn't have...argh sours the end of the leaving

The smiley one isn't so smiley...

Waltons

I didn't love the Section A but I was pretty happy with the questions I did in Section B. The nat inc question was quite nice as was the imperfect competition. Nothing really out of the ordinary in the international trade (although it was a bit weird that they asked how the countries would benefit from trade BEFORE specialisation) and the factors of production question was nice enough.
Overall a nice paper!

shoutman

i did question 1 2 3 and 4 hehe
i hoping for an A

hada

Having done the leaving last year as well, I can safely say that this years economics paper was a harder.

Definitely more wordy than ever before, question one was quite long in particular (didn't do it)

Think the state exams commission is just trying to make things harder if you ask me

the smiley one

hada wrote:

Having done the leaving last year as well, I can safely say that this years economics paper was a harder.

Definitely more wordy than ever before, question one was quite long in particular (didn't do it)

Think the state exams commission is just trying to make things harder if you ask me

Defo, and if you look at the 2003 exam it is a piece of s*it compared to this years....it's just not fair godammit!

:Keith:

Seriously? I thought this years paper was kinda easy compared to previous years. I did 8 of the short questions and then in Section B I did the question on Imperfect Competition, Factors of Production, Population and some other question I forget now.

defiantshrimp

the smiley one wrote:

Defo, and if you look at the 2003 exam it is a piece of s*it compared to this years....it's just not fair godammit!

Yeah I have to agree but at the same time economics was getting really easy. It was simply a case of reeling off a few rote-learned bullet points and not having to think in the slightest! At least they changed it a bit. If you knew your stuff you did well, even if it didn't feel like that the marking scheme is pretty lax on the difficult questions.

the smiley one

defiantshrimp wrote:

Yeah I have to agree but at the same time economics was getting really easy. It was simply a case of reeling off a few rote-learned bullet points and not having to think in the slightest! At least they changed it a bit. If you knew your stuff you did well, even if it didn't feel like that the marking scheme is pretty lax on the difficult questions.

I suppose...but still, it means you can't leave the exam with confidence, cuz it could go either way... did a stupid-ass thing on question 1 that was totally wrong and I'm sooooooooo pissed about it it - argh!!!
I always choose the wrong questions to do.... :rolleyes:

also people who have done sh*tloads of study/repeated/whatever will do REALLY well cuz they know practically everything in the past papers.....you shouldn't have to do incredible amounts to get an A..imo anyway...

Camogie Playa

thought the short qs were next to impossible, hardly any from previous papers came up besides psbr, oppurtunity cost and consumer surplus(my favourite definition).Thought the section b was ok, the part c's kinda caught me out sometimes, but all i had done was half of the micro section in the book, and thanks god it covered me today!!kinda bluffed my way through taxation and international trade, wasnt expecting to calculate the terms of trade though!Id say i got a bit better than the 54% i got in the pres, anywho its nearly over just another 2 and a half hours in that classroom!!then ill never have to think of school again........till next September

:Keith:

I got 45% in the mocks but I think I did reasonably well in it today, about a C1 or B3 I think

oq4v3ht0u76kf2

Was an incredibly waffly paper! I loved it!! Did 1 to 4 in the long questions and shouldbe on course for an A or B.

BraveheartGal

economics and business are the only subjects that you can waffle in
i got an a2 in my mocks
i reckon i gotta b in this one
i dunno what i think about the paper,i spose im happy but twas a bit different to the other ones
it wasnt so much hard but kinda unusual
i dunno, im not makin much sense,
maybe ive been eatin too many animal bars....

by the way in section a what the hell was the marginal utility?

the smiley one

BraveheartGal wrote:

by the way in section a what the hell was the marginal utility?

Have no clue; it was the only one I left out, cuz I figured you are either goin to spend 5 mins on this trying to figure it out when you will probably get it wrong.....so yeah I left it out.....after deliberation.. :rolleyes:

BraveheartGal

the only one i left out was the consumer price index
didnt know how to do it
know twas easy
but had never revised it

Jenna

That was a great paper! It's good that it was harder than last years coz it means they'll mark it harder and if you knew your stuff you'll get the marks. Aaahhh why am I online, I should be studying for music!!!

segadreamcast

Handy enough paper. Nice way to round off my Leaving Cert I think .

(The examiner was so nice too - she let me start ten minutes beforehand and gave me up until noon - though I had already been finished for ten minutes (bloody hell - could've used her in history!). She even shared her biscuits with me )

hada

BraveheartGal wrote:

by the way in section a what the hell was the marginal utility?

15.

Think about it, the ratio of mu to price must be equal for all goods consumed...so if one is 5/2 (which is 2.5) the other must be 15/6 (which is 2.5)

Badabing badaboom! See?

segadreamcast

hada wrote:

15.

Think about it, the ratio of mu to price must be equal for all goods consumed...so if one is 5/2 (which is 2.5) the other must be 15/6 (which is 2.5)

Badabing badaboom! See?

Really? *phew* I think that's what I got, though my memory is atrocious.

Waltons

Yeah, pretty sure that's right. The €10 put me off a bit at the start though

BraveheartGal

i had 15
changed it in the last second
all together now
TYPICAL

sock.rocker*

i have pissed off so badly... got 87% in the pre and was always the best in my class.

so of course, i didnt study till the day before and now im only lookin at a B1/A2 at most. the exam was pretty tough i thought.. only got 6 short questions and while i knew the answer for all the questions, i dont think i defined everythin perfect..

just ****