Economics II (2 º Sem 2019/2020)

Dear Student,

I hope you are well. For those that will be taking the resort epoch exam next Thursday, 2 July 2020, at 9 am, please follow the instructions below:

1) The exam will take place in the virtual channel in Teams called "Economics II_Recursos".

2) For the students that did not pass or did not attend the normal epoch exam, please make sure that you see this channel in TEAMS and that your name is already in the list of members. Otherwise, please send me an email at lcatao@iseg.ulisboa.pt, stating your name and student registration name, requesting your inclusion in the group. If your name is not registered in this group, you will NOT be able to take the exam.

3) For the students that passed the normal epoch exam and are or will be registered to take the exam to improve their grades, please check whether your name is included in the TEAMS channel "Economics II_Recursos" around 1 pm of Tuesday, June 30th, since the underground secretariat will let me know those names for inclusion only 48 hours before the exam. If your don't see your name in that TEAMS channel by next Tuesday afternoon, please send me an email.

4) For the students registered for improvement and whose grade turn out to be equal or superior to 14 and an improvement over the normal epoch exam please note the guidelines from the document issued by the presidency of the ISEG on May 8, paragraphs 5.2. and 7.1, both of which allow for the possibility of an oral exam at a later date.

5) Like in the normal epoch exam, the exam will consist of 20 multiple choice questions with no penalization for wrong answers, and will have a duration of one hour. Five extra minutes will be given to ensure successful submission of the answers.

6) Like in the normal epoch exam, the questions will cover all the taught material, from lecture 1 to lecture 20.

7) I ask that all students be online and tuned to the "Economics II_Recursos" channel in TEAMS at least 10 minutes before exam, i.e., at 8:50 on 2 July 2020 to make sure that connectivity problems are not an issue.

8) Other guidelines that were applicable to the Normal Epoch exam apply, except that the exam should NOT be recorded as per the guidelines of the ISEG scientific council. 

I wish you a productive week of study and the best of luck for those that will be taking the exam on July 2 at 9:00.

Luís Catão

Dear Student,

In addition to the corrections already posted in TEAMS, I have attached an excel file in the "Optional Sections" ("secoes opccionais) in Aquila. Please check carefully that your grade in this excel file is consistent with the one published in FORMS and please let me know if not.

I will be reserving a time, online for any revision you might be interested in discussing, TOMORROW, FRIDAY 4th. at 17:00, horario de Lisboa, in the Economics II TEAMS. Those who are interested in attending, please let me know by email (via aquila by 12:00 noon tomorrow), so I can allocate the time slots for this consultation accordingly. 

Let me just also add that the average grade in the exam, at 11.5, was at par with previous years, and that no one that did the exam had a grade inferior to 5 and a large number grades were in the 10-14 range. So, congratulations to everyone that attended the exam and, given the outcome, there are good reasons to hope that those that come to the resort epoch exam do even better. LC

Dear students,

I hope this mensage finds you all well. In our meeting on the review of the normal epoch exam last Friday, one of your colleagues raised an issue about the exam's question on Trade relations in a small open economy where and X and M equations were given (because the questions follow different orders in the exam, you may not be able to idenfity if by the number but in the current FORMS corresponds to question 16). The issue is: to evaluate competing alternative answers, one needs a data (GDP=200) that is given in one of the choices (which is shuffled across exams) and not in the heading of the question.

Typically, in an exam in a classroom, a student would ask a clarification from the teacher, but in an online exam where sound may be switched off and the possibiliy of some added anxiety by new plataform of the exam, I understand that asking these clarifications may be more difficult. So, after careful consideration of the issue, I have decided to give an extra point for that question. The new grades sent to the secretary will reflect this decision.

I take the opportunity to draw your attention to the guidelines set by the presidency of the ISEG in a comunication to all students in May regarding use of the resort epoch exam for improvements of grade for those with a final grade of 14 and above and the possibility of an oral exam. Please take a look at items 5 and 7 of that document that is linked here (https://www.iseg.ulisboa.pt/aquila/getFile.do?method=getFile&fileId=1381864).

Congratulations to everyone that did the final exam of the normal epoch and the majority that passed. It was a pleasure having the opportunity of teaching you, and for those that will not take the resort or special epoch exams, all the best in the remainder of your course.

Luís Catão