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UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ---o0o--- REVIEW FOR THE ENTRANCE EXAM – MBUS 2012 OUTLINE I. STATISTICS. II. ECONOMICS. III. ENGLISH. PART I – STATISTICS. 1- DESCRIPTIVE MEASURES ♦ Key statistical concepts ♦ Summary statistics ♦ Graphical descriptive techniques 2- CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY - PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Conditional probability Binomial distribution Normal distribution Sampling distribution 3- ESTIMATING & HYPOTHESIS TESTING ♦ Estimating the population mean, the population proportion ♦ Hypothesis testing for population mean, population proportion 4- ESTIMATING & HYPOTHESIS TESTING (continued) ♦ Hypothesis testing for 2 means: paired sampling, independent sampling ♦ Hypothesis testing for 2 proportions *** Textbook ♦ Statistics for Management and Economics, Gerald Keller, SouthWestern Cengage Learning, 2011. PART II – ECONOMICS. 1- MICROECONOMICS Chapter 1: Supply, Demand, and Market Equilibrium 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Markets and Competition Demand Supply Market Equilibrium The Elasticity of Demand and The Elasticity of Supply Supply, Demand, and Government Policies Chapter 2: Production and Costs 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Total revenue, Total Cost, and Profit The Production Function The Various Measures of Cost Costs in the Short-Run and in the Long-Run Economies of Scale and Diseconomies of Scale Chapter 3: Firms in Competitive Markets 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 What is a Competitive Market? The Competitive Firm’s Supply Curve in the Short-Run The Competitive Firm’s Supply Curve in the Long-Run The Supply Curve in a Competitive Market Chapter 4: Monopoly 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Why Monopolies Arise How Monopolies Make Production and Pricing Decisions The Welfare Cost of Monopoly Public Policies toward Monopolies Price Discrimination 2- MACROECONOMICS Chapter 5: Introduction to Macroeconomics 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Definition of Macroeconomics The Economy’s Income and Expenditure The Measurement of Gross Domestic Production Measuring the Cost of Living Chapter 6: Inflation and Unemployment 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 The Classical Theory of Inflation The Costs of Inflation Unemployment The Short-Run Trade-Off between Inflation and Unemployment *** Textbook ♦ Principles of Economics, Third edition, N.Gregory Mankiw. PART III – ENGLISH. 1- GRAMMAR According to the following grammar matter: 1. All tenses and The sequence of tenses 2. Comparison (adv, adj) 3. Possessive, Personal and Reflexive Pronouns 4. Articles, Quantifiers and Determiners 5. Prepositions and prepositional phrases 6. Infinitive and Gerund constructions 7. Modals 8. Word order: basic sentence pattern: S + V + others, positions of nouns, adjectives, adverbs etc. and inversions. 9. Active voice and Passive voice. 10.Causative 11.Reported Speech 12.Participles 13.Commands, requests, invitations, advice and suggestions 14.Conjunctions 15.Adverb Clauses: of reason, result, time, concession… 16.Relative clauses 17.Noun clauses 18.Conditional Sentences 19.Subjunctive mood 20.Phrasal verbs. 2- VOCABULARY Candidates need to have capital of vocabulary from 2000 to 2500 English words, including fields of culture, society, economics, sciences, education, and environment. However, the topic of economics and commerce will be mentioned more. 3- SKILLS  Reading Candidates need to have the basic reading comprehension skills such as: scanning, skimming and being able to answer the questions based on the short passages. These passages can be in the different forms, including: descriptions, narratives, reports, notices, letters/ emails, charts/ tables/ forms, newspaper/ magazine articles or advertisements.  Writing Candidates need to master grammatical structures as well as to understand clearly the context. And so on, you can easily connect words and phrases together into a sentence, a short passage. Besides, you have to practice more in expressing an idea, a speech by another form without changing the main meaning 4- REFERENCE MATERIALS: 1. Materials review exam for postgraduate recruitment – English Subject. UEH-Foreign Language Department (2012). 2. Market Leader – Elementary & Pre-intermediate Business English. Author: David Cotton, David Falvey and Simon Kent; Publisher: Pearson Longman 2006. 3. Understanding and using English grammar. Third edition with answer key. Author: Betty Schrampfer; Publisher: Longman 2002. 4. Website: www.bnn.ueh.edu.vn CONTACT: University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS 17 Pham Ngoc Thach Str., Dist 3, Ho Chi Minh City Phone: 84.8.5446 5555 – Fax: 84.8.5446 7879 Email: info@isb.edu.vn; Website: www.isb.edu.vn  ... Short-Run Trade-Off between Inflation and Unemployment *** Textbook ♦ Principles of Economics, Third edition, N.Gregory Mankiw PART III – ENGLISH 1- GRAMMAR According to the following grammar... Materials review exam for postgraduate recruitment – English Subject UEH-Foreign Language Department (2012) Market Leader – Elementary & Pre-intermediate Business English Author: David Cotton, David... Falvey and Simon Kent; Publisher: Pearson Longman 2006 Understanding and using English grammar Third edition with answer key Author: Betty Schrampfer; Publisher: Longman 2002 Website: www.bnn.ueh.edu.vn