Macro Exam

[Kabaka]

I'm just wondering how people found the macro exam? I'm taking both the micro & macro courses right now, and while I don't expect any great difficulty with the micro exam, the macro material is far less interesting to me and I'm a little concerned with how much I'm actually retaining while trying to plow through an 800 page textbook in 8 weeks. Any input?

[crayolaab]

Well, I won't know for sure if I passed until Friday, but I was the same as you going in to the exams - Micro seemed loads easier and had a much better text book but when it came time for the exams, I found the Macro exam MUCH MUCH easier - I took the full two hours for Micro, but had to FORCE myself to spend 75 minutes on Macro. If there aren't copies of a sample exam already floating around online (or if you can't get one from someone at your office) let me know and I'll type up the questions from the July sitting.

[Kabaka]

Well that's reassuring. That macro text is one dry read. I'll look around for a sample exam & get back to you. Thanks!

[Phoebus]

Just keep pushing through and if you don't understand some topic in a subsection too well, don't sweat it. Just do all your studying from sample test questions and a previous exam and only read well enough to do the homework exercises. The exam was probably the easiest of the three I took even though I didn't feel I could explain much to anyone without doing a lot of hand-waving.