5 hours of ecmt1010????!!!! (1 Viewer)

[stazi]

Ahhhhh youve gotta be kidding me. 5 hours of ecmt 1010? Am i correct?
1 lecture mon, tue,wed and a 2 hour workshop. Fuck this. I'm bloody angry. I only need the basics for marketing. I havent done maths for 2 years. I hate maths, as its not my kind of subject. But 5 hours, compared to my 2/3 hours of other subs!!!

 

[elizabethy]

believe me ecmt 1010 is not dad bad if u understand it from day 1......don't be so worried abt doing 5hrs of ecmt
to do well in it, just try 2 understand the concepts from the beginning n practise as many questions as possible, n ur workshops will be a good way 2 revise wat ur doing in lectures,so don't stress out!
goodluck

 

[snakeoils]

actually, i disagree with elizabath in some respects ... it IS that bad.

its worth being angry about. I HATED ecmt, and the sheer amount we were required to do was one of the reasons I hardly went to any lectures.

I honestly would have went to maybe 6 lectures the entire semester.

The reason its a compulsory part of our marketing major is because there is a severe lack of statistical marketers, so having an ecmt grounding makes us "more employable" - as for needing the knowledge, the computer program pretty much does it all for you anyway, you don't need to know much.

My advice: make friends with some people who did 4 unit maths - they become invaluable. Also become friends with your tutor, because they're more lenient markers then. But yes, be good and go to lectures.

 

[zannaz]

Looking at past exam papers for the MKTG3001 - Marketing Research II, from the library website, you'd need some good grounding in statistics to pass the unit beacuse it contains stuff like regression and coefficients etc... that you learn in ecmt1010.

I'm in the same boat as you. I didn't do maths in yr11 and 12 and majoring in marketing. Don't worry to much about ecmt1010. As elizabethy said, if you follow from day 1, which will feel really crap and tedious, it however, will do you the world of good. I got a relatively good mark for it despite my lack of competence in maths.

 

[elizabethy]

yeh just be on track from day 1

 

[aditya]

y dunt u just do math1005 - statistics........

 

[stazi]

because that would require me to do another math/ecmt subject prior to acceptance to marketing (pretty sure thats right). And with my double major prospects in two subjects that would be impossible.

Next question: So do you need to know calculus?
I've got a 2 unit maths textbook here: which other units should I practice with before calculus.

 

[absolution*]

*hugs 3 unit HSC maths*

 

[elizabethy]

Next question: So do you need to know calculus?

u don't need 2 know calculus for ecmt

 

[Lainee]

^ At the Eco & Bus Faculty welcome we were told that "Yes, you need to do maths in Commerce - specifically calculus." Those were the exact words.

 

[absolution*]

woohooooooo

 

[ToO LaZy ^*]

*hugs a ripped and torn 4u maths text book*

 

[Ultimate]

i found ecmt to be one of the easiest units I've done, mainly because i'm maths oriented. Practically did no work the whole sem and still got a hd for it. But for ppl with little maths background, it would prob require a lot more work.

Also you don't need calculus for any first year comm subjects, i think u might need it for 2nd year metrics, economics and finance but i'm not sure.

 

[stazi]

so what maths knowlege would I need to know, if i were to revise my 2u textbooks?

 

[elizabethy]

so what maths knowlege would I need to know, if i were to revise my 2u textbooks?

i don't think u need to revise anything in particular if u know ur basic maths stuff well.....maths in ecmt1010 is damn easy...believe me

 

[stazi]

well last time i did maths was end of year 11. I got 3/100 in my yearly

 

[snakeoils]

you'll be okay... if i can pass it, anyone can pass it...

just make sure you understand the concept, before the tutor moves on... i had a tutor who took it for granted that everyone knew what the maths concepts were and understood them, and would say stuff like "you'll remember this from the HSC" etc... so i and a few others went up to him after a few weeks and went "mate, look, what about me? it isnt fair... " (well, not in those exact words) and he was much better after that. Plus use your consultation time with him/her to have them explain stuff to you.

 

[stazi]

will the premise of consultation time be explained to us?
I've started reading through the chapters in the textbook based on the weekly plan. Hoping this will make it easier.

 

[snakeoils]

Consultation time is basically 1 or 2 hours a week in which you can go see your tutor in a private room, and get them to go through aspects of the course for you. You can ask them questions, get them to mark your practice examples, etc etc... the tutor will tell you where and when they are available, and you can either make an appointment to see them, or just show up. How much time you get depends on how many people are waiting - usually not many until exam time!

 

[stazi]

does it cost moolah?