Week 3
19 Oct
TMA week
TMA 01
The secret of this TMA is to let Microsoft Excel be your friend. If you can use the spreadsheet and let it draw graphs then things become pretty easy to describe, and you can see any correlations between different aspects of the economy come to life.
YouTube has some excellent tutorials on drawing graphs, just Google "youtube using excel to draw graphs" and take your pick.
There are also very helpful student notes for this TMA which pretty much lead you to where the answers may be, these are found on the website pages after the TMA question which are often missed in the rush to answer the TMA.
This TMA should be easier to complete that ones I have been used to because,
i. It is not an essay.
ii. There are calculations which have answers which are right or wrong.
iii. It has a 800 word count cap.
iv. It is only worth 7%, so don't over think it.
So, hopefully this will be pretty much done this weekend, and on to Part 2.
4 comments:
Hi, I've just started this course, and already you are a Godsend! Though I appear to be struggling a lot more with the terminology than you did in chapter one!
Comment above was from Luke.
Hi Like, thanks for your comments. This course seems like a lifetime ago, but in the end I really enjoyed it. We were the first course through so suffered from typos and other mistakes, hopefully that should be sorted out now. Good luck with the course, although the recent reduction of interest rates to 0.25% may still baffle the 'experts'.
Hi again, the course is only 2 weeks away now, so busy trying to get a little in front before it starts. All the video links you gave, are proving very helpful. As is the YouTube idea for learning how to do graphs on Excel! 😃 I'll keep referring to your blog from week to week as I go on. I'm sure there will be a few more diamonds to unearth that will help me on my way.
Regards
Luke
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