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ECOS3002 Development Economics
Final exam review
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School of Economics
ECOS3002 Development Economics
Final exam review
Exam logistics and overview
Exam logistics
• The university exams office is responsible for administering the exam, through the special ‘Final Exam for:
ECOS3002’ Canvas site.
• All official information on the exam and its administration, comes from the Exams Office, and overrides
anything I say in this video or elsewhere on the ECOS3002 Canvas site.
• I will not be available on the day of the exam, the Ed site will be offline the day of the exam, and exams
cannot be submitted by email (or any other channel than the official Canvas Assignment submission).
• On the day of the exam please contact
[email protected] for support on any technical problems.
• Any exam-related problems will have to be dealt with through official University systems (e.g., Special
Consideration), and approval of appeals is not guaranteed.
• I highly recommend logging in to the exam site as soon as you have access, reading through everything,
and making sure you have access to all the materials, resources, and software necessary for an online
exam.
Exam details
Date of test: 14 November 2022 (Monday)
Start: 13:00 AEST
Duration: 2 hours and 40 minutes (160 minutes). This includes:
• 10 minutes reading time, but you are free to start writing as soon as you are ready.
• 120 minutes of writing time.
• 30 minutes of upload time to allow you to upload your files per the test instructions. Do NOT treat this
as extra writing time. The upload time must be used solely to save and upload your files correctly.
Manage your time carefully. Check that you have saved and named your file correctly and uploaded the
correct file. If your time runs out while you are uploading this is not considered a technical issue, and
there is no guarantee you will be granted Special Consideration in such cases.
Exam details
• Materials required: (i) scientific calculator, and (ii) two sheets of blank paper with a
writing instrument (pen or pencil), OR a digital drawing tool.
• Your final exam submission will be in the form of one or two PDFs.
• One document option. You can insert your figures and workings into your main document as
pasted images, and then generate one machine-readable PDF for all other text.
• Two document option. You can create one PDF for your figures and workings on questions 1
and 2 only, and then submit all other answers in a second, machine-readable PDF.
Submission format
• Handwritten submissions are only allowed on questions 1 and 2, and on questions 1 and
2, only for (i) drawing the figures, (ii) to show your workings (calculations).
• Outside these exceptions, all other exam answers that aren’t submitted in a machine-
readable form (i.e., a PDF generated directly from a Word processor), will automatically
receive a score of 0.
• Handwritten answers will receive a score of 0.
• Scans, photos or other renderings of text that create an image that isn’t machine readable will
receive a score of 0.
• Please ensure well in advance that you have access to a Word processor that can create
a compliant submission.
Exam format
Question type Points
Recommended time
spent
Questions 1 & 2 Draw, calculate,
interpret
15 (x2) 20 minutes (x2)
Question 3 Interpret an RCT
15 20 minutes
Questions 4, 5 & 6
Short answer
5 points (x2), 10 points
(x1)
5 minutes (x2), 15
minutes (x1),
respectively
Questions 7 and 8
Short essays
15 points (x1), 20 points
(x1)
15 minutes and 20
minutes, respectively
Academic honesty
• It should go without saying that the exam is to be taken completely individually. Use of any
method to communicate with classmates during the exam (collusion) is forbidden.
• Beyond that, it is an open book exam. The exam is designed so that you won’t get a huge benefit
from searching online or in your textbook, so don’t get tempted to plan to just look things up for
your exam responses. But you are certainly welcome to use either to look up concepts,
definitions, etc.
• However, you should never plagiarize answers or closely paraphrase answers (e.g., copying any
text, whether from the class notes, slides, previous exam answers, the textbook, an outside
source, etc) without citation. As much as possible the exam answers should be your own ideas
and expressions, and you may lose marks for excessively relying on outside sources (more than
5% on any individual question), even if you cite them properly.
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School of Economics
ECOS3002 Development Economics
Final exam review
Content overview: Lecture 7 onward
Content of exam
• Everything in the course is fair game: lectures, tutorials, and textbook chapters.
• In practice the exam has about 2/3 weight on material since the mid-sem exam (Lecture 7
onward), and about 1/3 weight on the material in the mid-sem exam (Lecture 6 and prior).
• For mid-sem exam material, please see the previous review video.
New material for final exam (focus of the remainder of these slides):
Week Week Beginning Lecture Lecture Topic(s) / textbook chapter(s)
7 12 Sept Lecture 7 Chapter 13: financial services for the poor