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Hey guys, I'm in a lot of trouble right now.... My school's starting our predicted exams from 30th August'13 and I'm having trouble in business and management. Putting in the effort is not the problem, but I no clue on how to write an answer, every time i get a 4, where I worked for a 6 or a 7. Can someone please help me to learn how to write the answers?
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Hello IB comrades, About Economics Porfolio criteria, do you get more marks for using primary sources such as an article found in a physical newspaper? I need to do 3 commentaries, but is it possible to use only online sources for all of these (e.g. bbc, cnn, guardian)? Or do I have to use physical newspaper articles for at least one of them in order to score a higher mark? Thanks.
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Just to see whether it's appropriate. I'll PM you the link. Thanks in advance!
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What were the May 2013 Economics hl papers 1, 2 and 3 on roughly? My school is yet to receive the past papers of them
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Well hello, To put it out direct and brief, I've been looking for a topic on every site that you can imagine, and couldn't even find anything relevant (I can't use BBC by the way, since I've used it for my Macro). I've searched up the following terms and was unsuccessful: Price controlPrice MechanismMarket equilibriumExternalityNegative ExternalityMarket failureNow what I suspect is a problem originating from the way I'm searching this up since I literally couldn't find an article even worth reading until the end. Help is appreciated in advance.
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If i shorten it, would this be a good macro article? http://www.aei.org/article/economics/raising-minimum-wage-is-sure-bet-to-create-more-jobless-young-americans/
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Its different, i know but its also very direct and allows for analysis.. thats what i feel but i could be wrong, ive not done even one commentary yet http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/odd/news/a476846/popular-ice-cream-shop-puts-up-prices-to-deter-customers.html
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SO. ive been sick for a long long time, i went back to school and found out my econs commentaries are due in like a week. I NEED HELP. I found this article on price discrimination in australia, and i was thinking reaall hard and realized that price discrimination may not be the best topic for my micro commentary. Is that true? Or is there something youre supposed to focus on? Or am i worrying about nothing? pleaseee let me know roughly how to approach a price discrimination commentary thank you thank you thank you :')
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Okay so I have been given this topic for my first eco project/assessment: Select any Economy which is gone through the Transition Period and find out the problems its gone through. I tried finding relevant information on the topic but failed to find spot on point,can someone help me out and guide me on how I should proceed?
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Hello! I need to study to for a business test and I would like to practice with the May 2013 Paper 2! Does someone have a link for that document? Thank you very much!
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Hello, Before we went on summer holiday we handed in our second IA. This time we had to do one on International Economics and I decided to do one on tariffs. So I picked out an article and got it approved by my teacher. I handed in the IA in the beginning of May so I didn't have to worry about it during in-school end of the year exams. Now during my summer holiday I was hanging out with some friends who also take econ, however they are in different classes (we have three econ classes). Some how we started to talk about the IA and I mentioned the article I had used for mine and they told me that they knew of other people in the other classes which had used the same articl…
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So I'm doing a commentary on country X's decision to hike up interest rates. One of my evaluation sounds like this: high Interest rates => lower consumption by households => business revenues fall => businesses close => government revenue from corporate taxes fall => distribution of income and equality worsens. I just thought about it today and I'm not sure if this is something sensible to write about in my commentary. Any thoughts?
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i've chosen my macro ia which is ....... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10001395/Unemployment-figures-are-worrying-David-Camerons-spokesman-says.html not sure what diagrams to use and what policy they're suggesting. PLEASE HELP! - worried IB student
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Hey there, Any ideas for a B&M IA?
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Hey, I'll be starting with my classes next week. I'm taking maths studies, business and management and psychology. Actually a friend told me that taking business and management without taking economics and maths HL is of no use and is not recognised much by universities. Is that true? Because I'm neither interested in Maths HL, nor in dropping psychology and taking economics instead.. Please let me know if taking this combination would be of any use to me.. p.s. I'm not planning to choose any career that requires maths as the base.
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Please can you all complete my survey? I'll be using this for my Business And Management internals and require the answers to be honest. I would love it if you could spend two minutes of your time and help me out! http://www.surveyshare.com/s/AQA67RC There's the link, and you'll have to give in your ids. Don't worry, no e-mails are sent to the id given and even I wouldn't get to know your id. So without hesitation, please give it in! Thank you so much!
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Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew where I can find example answers to the learning outcomes in the syllabus guide? It would be useful to draw comparisons. Thanks, Daniel
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Hello, I really need to make a decision on my subjects. All i want to ask is that is Economics HL really difficult (the mathematical aspect especially) because its either this or a language B HL which even to me seems like an easy way out. My subjects : English A1 - HL Biology - HL Language B/Economics - HL Psychology - SL Math - SL Language B/Economics - SL PS. - Math isn't my favourite subject. I wasn't recommended Economics cause of my math scores but i improved drastically in my finals. Econ Paper 3 is my main concern as compared to the theoretical aspect All help is appreciated
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Hi, May I know some tips to get an A for Business EE? I am retaking my Business EE since I only got a C for it Thank you.
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Hello all Just started my Business IA (puke) and going through some of the IAs that have been done online and none of them got full marks for Criterion B—Choice and application of business tools, techniques and theory, so wanted to see what are the possible tools avalible Possible tools i can think of are SWOT analysis Product Portfolio Analysis Boston Matrix Madoff Matrix help people?
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My RQ is this: "Should XYZ tuition centre start to provide IB tuition to increase its competitiveness? Introduction: XYZ is a tuition centre that was established in 2006. It is a home-grown education provider that is focused on building students' foundation in their various subjects. Their pool of experienced and dedicated tutors, together with the organisation of small class sizes, allows them to craft highly personalised approaches to help students develop their innate potential. XYZ has only 1 centre and has no other branches, so expansion might be considered in their future actions. The services (classes) they are providing are English, Chinese, Maths, and Sciences, …
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Does anyone have a graded BM SL IA sample to show? for example anyone know if “Can Ford’s ‘Way Forward’ strategy work to rescue the company?" got a 7? Or does anyone have a sample of a 7 BM IA?
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Can I have your opinion on the following textbooks: http://www.amazon.com/Economics-Diploma-CD-ROM-Ellie-Tragakes/dp/0521186404 http://www.amazon.com/IB-Economics-Edition-diploma-Programme/dp/0198390009 Any other recommendations of excellent economics HL textbooks?
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I had a slight doubt regarding one of the commentaries I need to submit as a part of my IA Portfolio as a student of Economics HL. The fact that there is a specific component in the rubric asking for Diagrams in the commentaries has got me slightly muddled. I'm going through my commentary on Developmental Economics and as far as I can see, there aren't any possible diagrams visible in the horizon. What should I do and is this usually the case with Developmental Economics related IA? The book I use (Oxford Course Companion by Jocelyn Blink and Ian Dorton),has one diagram in the whole section, so that again does not help much in clearing the air regarding this. Any help wou…
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Hi there, I am planning to write an IA on BNM regarding the FDI by foreign companies in India. Problem is I don't know what must the supporting documents contain. Whenever I go into companies website I just get a small introduction of the company and nothing else. Could I know where could I get good supporting documents and a sample one. I would also like to know about the word count of IA. Thanks!
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Hey Guys, For my first macro econ IA, I have covered the topics of unemployment and inflation as they are close related and interest rate as it was mentioned in the article. My teacher asked me to write another macro IA, except I have covered all the topics you can possibly discuss. What should I do? Do one of those topics again? Maybe someone has a suggestion? Also what are the different sections the IAs can come from? Microeconomics, macroeconomics, international economics and development economics .. correct? Thanks a lot, Louis
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I am too worried. I have to start my IA soon. I don't know if I can choose a sole trading business for this. Because so far I have only seen examples of incorporated businesses and limited companies. So I am unsure if sole trading business is fine. I have to start doing my research soon. Guys please help or suggest something. Please!
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Hi, i'm at the end of my first semester in IB with 3 more semesters to go. I just decided to switch to BAM from philosophy and i have to catch up on a whole semester's work in the holidays (2 weeks) TT_TT does anyone have any tips on how to approach BAM and the best way to make notes and remember things? I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR HELP!!! ^_____________^
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Hi! My article states that Slovenia decided to implement the increase in taxes on VAT (value added taxes) because these taxes have the least impact on economic growth. Can anyone explain why? I researching it and came out with nothing Thanks a million
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I just decided (hopefully) on my EE topic in economics. It is "to what extent is the smartphone market for teenagers in Stockholm a duopoly?". Now I need some tips on this. My approach is that it is a duopoly between Samsung and Apple. Thing is, duopoly isn't part of the sylli. So is it a dumb move? I could change it to oligopoly, but I feel as if that is way too obvious. Anyways, apart from that, does anyone have any advice on how to start the extended essay work, and possibly, if anyone could give me a tip of any material for the bibliography. I know that there's an EE part of the forum, but I was hoping for some more economics'ish replies in contrast to general EE repl…
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What should I include in my commentary on this article? I've talked to my teacher and he suggested that I could discuss what the government should do with an overproduction of food (storing, alternative allocation of resources, etc.) and discuss how it could be possible for the government to keep the food prices relatively stable (such as buffer stock schemes). I'm also doing the standards, like defining and explaining the key words of the article (such as monetary policies, CPI, inflation, aggregate demand, etc.) as well as considering the possible short/long term consequences for consumers, firms and the government of increasing food prices. I might also explain the pur…
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Hi, I was thinking of buying a study guide for Economics HL. I take my exams next year in May, and I was wondering which study guide I should get. I found these two from OSC, one for general revision and one for paper 3, and they cover the new 2013 syllabus: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Economics-Revision-International-Baccalaureate-Diploma/dp/1907374345 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Economics-Numerical-Questions-International-Baccalaureate/dp/1907374310 Also found this one from Oxford/Ziogas, but it is not updated for the 2013 syllabus: http://www.amazon.co.uk/IB-Economics-diploma-International-Baccalaureate/dp/0198390017 So should I go with OSC or Oxford? Regards, Flomer
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My sisters own a company and they specialized in pastry for catering events and also they have a pastry shop located in a shopping mall. The factory changed to a farest place but is cheaper and bigger than the last one... My IA question is: Now that Company XYZ changed the factory location, how would be affected their financial capital? (Given that the company only has 2 years and they have to invest in adequating the new factory) It is okay?? I was thinking in doing SWOT analysis and PBP... Please help!! I am not so good in business so I will be glad if someone would give me any advice
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I needed some help in choosing an article for a commentary in development economics. I've done one commentary on micro so far but I can't seem to understand what a commentary on development economics would entail. What sort of theory and/or diagrams would one use in the commentary? And regarding the article, I assume it should be something related to "Economic Development", so I wanted to know whether one of these two articles would be suitable and what sort of analysis would need to be carried out. http://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/57245 http://www.ibtimes.com/africa-pursues-development-goals-some-countries-lag-while-others-lead-1289671 Any help, suggestions, fe…
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Okay, so here's the question: "Compare and contrast the expected impact of an increase in aggregate demand on the price level in the monetarist/new classical and Keynesian perspectives." [15 marks] I wrote about the different levels of real output and price level that the economy would end up producing at for the monetarist SRAS/LRAS curve and for each section of the Keynesian AS curve. Is that enough for an IB answer?
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I've been looking around the interwebs and I can't find any list of formulas that I need to know for my Paper 3 mini-mock. Does anyone have a link to a website with eco formulas for Paper 3? EDIT: Scratch that. Found a website: (main down, using google's cache) http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:-Hoexw9A5QwJ:welkerswikinomics.com/blog/2013/04/30/how-to-succeed-on-ib-economics-higher-level-paper-3/
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Hey! I've always had trouble making economics graphs on my computer...Photoshop takes heaps of time and I can never be bothered to hand draw them out. But, I found a solution yesterday and I feel like flaunting my discovery to the world (yes, I think it's that helpful ) http://www.mhhe.com/economics/econgk.mhtml You can easily draw all the economics graphs you want online and they also look quite presentable Cheers, Simran
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Hey, I'm taking Economics SL and I wanted to confirm something. Is it true that our commentaries must originate from different parts of the world? Like one from Malaysia and the other from Mexico, etc. Or would it not matter? Oh and I wanted to know whether an online newspaper article counts as a newspaper source or a website source. Thanks in advance!
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Hi there! I need a help for choosing articles for my econ commentary. I have taken econ SL and have completed till Macro economics ( I have said this so that I can avoid many terminology related to HL.) I have chosen article purely based on inflation.. 1) http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/23/mexico-economy-idUSL3N0E437H20130523 2) http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/commodities/gold-faces-more-pressure-as-inflation-stays-tame/articleshow/20246637.cms 3) http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/18/us-china-property-prices-idUSBRE94H05120130518 Thanks !
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What should restaurant X do in order to get more clients? Suggestions?
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Hey all, I'm doing my commentary on Greek unemployment (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9986806/Greek-unemployment-hits-a-fresh-record.html) As of now, I think I'm going to talk about how they're in a state of recession, how seasonal employment is inefficient for the long run, and how the Government needs to revitalize business through spending, and perhaps cutting taxes. Does that sound okay? Also, does anyone know the actual reason for the unemployment in the first place? I scoured google but couldn't find a solid response. Thanks, Zeppy
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Hi! I am studying Business and Management HL and I'm actually writing my Research proposal for my IA. The maximum number of words is 500 and I have seen examples that counting the words of all the parts and the action plan of the proposal have more than 500 words. Does the action plan count for the word count in the research proposal? Thank you very much!
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jan/09/play-closes-retail-business-vat-loophole I want to know if it's valid and any points I could use ASAP thank you
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We just received our case study for the may 2013 paper 1 exam (about ball bearings). What do you guys think they might ask us?
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Does anyone know what are the allowed items for paper 1 and paper 2? Someone told me that we can take a sheet of paper with anotations to the exam, is that ture?
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I have bm sl paper 1 tomorrow? Any tips regarding studying, time managments during exam or answers structure?
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For Business: I would like to know which magazines and newspapers do you use for support documents. For Economics: Which all news papers do you use for economics? I use Reuters and BBC only any other newspapers?
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For topic 3 do we need to memorise how to do P&L, and balance sheet or do we just need to know the content of each. Its not very clear in the syllabus they just state them, does this mean that we have to memorise them?
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Ive found this really one for good business notes http://issuu.com/eatyrself/docs/business_and_management_notes_pdf Hope it helps you too!
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