What lecturers & tutors expect from a 3rd Year Econs student
You are expected to do the readings That long reading list that your lecturer uploaded at the beginning of the year is no joke, he/she expects you to go through them! Some lecturers may even be helpful enough as to categorise the readings: core reading, supplementary, empirical. Have a separate Readings folder for every topic, and read them according to the order of importance to save time. Before you begin reading, make sure you understand what exactly that you are looking for; is it just the main findings that you are supposed to know (argumentative), or are we analyzing the authors' methodologies (empirical methods discussion)? Doing so would make the task more objective, helps to shape your expectations, hence making the text more comprehensible and digestible. Basic economic knowledge is assumed From the first lecture, you are expected to know all the basics: proving the concavity of the utility function, solving a Lagrange optimization operation, implications of