That's very funny. Really, it is. Economics at University assumes you know Mathematics, not General Maths.
General Maths is a sorry excuse for a subject, because when you really think of it, although it is geared towards real-life applications - it deals with simple things. Very simple things like collecting like terms, surface areas of shapes. I think everyone should do Mathematics, 3 unit is pushing it - that circle geometry can kill you, and as soon as you chuck pi for radians - most General-esque students will go "WAT" and their brains will explode because you are crossing circles with triangles... of course I'm exaggerating, but you get my point.
Also, most people do Standard English and General Maths, because most people are not intelligent enough to do the higher level stuff. However, I encourage everyone to do Advanced English because it's basically the same thing only a tad harder with texts and that and analysis, while Mathematics makes you learn things like calculus. Just saying it makes you feel smart, similarly, saying Permutations and Combinations makes a 3u student feel smart, along with Polynomials, Plane Geometry, Inverse Trigonometric Functions (or just Trigonometrics) and Binomial Theorem and Binomial Probability.
Meanwhile, the MX2 students have less words to use - but Conics is probably the best one to use... although things like Subsets of the Complex Plane, Polar Form of a Complex Number and the like are pretty cool to say too.