HSC economics needed for b comm at UNSW? (1 Viewer)

[apollo1]

hey im doing a bachelor of commerce double degree at UNSW and i was wondering is the hsc eco course pertinent for the commerce degrees? i stupidly dropped eco before yr 12 and i dont want to go to uni disadvantaged by this.

 

[b00m]

is it pertinent? nope. But its been pretty useful for getting through microeconomics and macro which are core-subjects

Ive been able to fly through them because i did hsc eco

 

[apollo1]

is it pertinent? nope. But its been pretty useful for getting through microeconomics and macro which are core-subjects

Ive been able to fly through them because i did hsc eco

so do you think i should go through stuff from the hsc course like macro and microeconomics?

 

[ameher]

Personally didnt do economics at high school and at uni they teach it right from scratch through macro and micro. Interestingly enough out of the people i know who did hsc economics said they did worse at uni economics then the ones who hadn't like myself, as they complained it was more numerical and less theoretical then at school. However that is just a small sample size of people, but no you wont be disadvantaged by not doing economics because everything is taught from scratch.

 

[b00m]

so do you think i should go through stuff from the hsc course like macro and microeconomics?

nah dont worry about it. You'll be fine by jsut learning from the uni textbooks

But yes as the above poster has said, it involves a lot more graphs and is more numerical

 

[apollo1]

ok cool. tnks guys.