Wednesday, October 13, 2004

The Promotion Exam break-down.

General Paper
paper1- Did a qn on "Winners take All. How important is it for sportsman to win everything? Discuss. (can't remember the exact qn, something ard there la...)
paper2- passage A adapted from Arturo Madrid's Diversity and Its Discontents in Understanding Inequality
passage B adapted from Peter Schwartz's The Racism of "Diversity"
comments: eassy didn't have much points to write, think i wrote abt how society looks are sportsman(winners and losers), sportsman's pride and honour, and how the media potray the sportsman... paper 2 was rather tough, the passages were rather hard to digest and understand. hopefully i can scape a pass... if not i will be joining u guys in NS next yr...
CT2 56/100, CT3 47.5/100(roughly)

Mathematics
rather disppointed with myself, failing to do any practices and juz revised briefly. luckily have been doing assignments and tutorials myself, think should onli juz fail the paper. roughly ard 40mks
Economics
juz finished paper1 today... think i did finely...
paper2- DRQs and Case Study Qns on 'Higher oil prices: OPEC is alive'. qns asked about cartel, offical price band, oligopoly mkt structure, account for sharp rise in oil price... etc. quite ok but dunno how the teacher will mark, did have enuff time to finish last qn on sharp price rise.
paper3- Qn1: The annual month-long shopping extravaganza, the Great Singapore Sale, is an opportunity for retailers to get consumers to spend.
(a) Explain price elasticity od demand, income Ed and cross Ed.(12)
(b) Discuss how an understanding of these concepts might be of use to retailers in preparation for the GSS.(13)
Qn2: Large foreign firms dominate the large-project segment of the construction mkt in Sg by winning 2-thirds of projects worth over $100million in 1999. Local firms are thus encourage to merge.
(a) Explain the possible benefits of mergers among the local construction firms.(12)
(b) Given the benefits you described, do you agree that there is no room for small firms in the Sg construction industry? (13)
Did this 2 qns, didn't have time to finish 2b, onli wrote about the dd side and not ss side.
Qn3(a) 'Under conditions of PC there is only 1 price charged by firms, but in the case of a single supplier there are more than 1 price charged to different consumers." Explain this statement.(10) (b) Using PC as a reference pt, discuss the relative merits and demerits of other mkt structures.(15)
Qn4(a) Distinguish betw monopolistic competition and oligopoly. (10)
(b) Explain how firms under such mkt structures compete and discuss if such competition benefits the economy. (15)
paper1- think i shld pass this well, matched my answers with kevin and most are the same... did random MCQs of TYS on topic 1 and oligopoly, helped a bit in todays mcq.
CT2 68/100, CT3 47.95/100(roughly)

Physics
paper1- after finish the papers, the teacher gave out the answers for mcq, got 21/30.
paper2- Really, really disappointed with myself... actually can forget how to calculate tension, gave up the whole qns related to tension, lost roughly 20+ mks juz on abt tension. overall didn't attempt near 50mks of qns... liked i totally gave up on this subject sia...
I did summary for all topics except Work, Energy, Power till Ideal gases, actually worked well for my mcq but total messed up paper2, didn't revise on TENSION... haiz...
CT2 55/100 CT3 38/110

That wraps up my whole promo exam... waiting for the final vedict(GP)...

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