{"id":5373,"date":"2013-07-24T10:59:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T15:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5373"},"modified":"2016-06-28T15:37:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T19:37:05","slug":"eco105y-principles-of-economics-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=5373","title":{"rendered":"eco105y: principles of economics for dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi I am about to pick courses for first year life science. I will be taking bio120 , chm 138, mat135 a first year seminar, and I would like to take eco105. How difficult is Eco105? What are the chances it will affect my gpa?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Yo.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I am but a student and have not sampled every possible course that exists.<\/p>\n<p>How difficult is ECO105Y?<\/p>\n<p>Waaaah I hate those kinds of questions. &#8220;Difficulty&#8221; is just so subjective. I&#8217;m going to go with &#8220;damn difficult&#8221; because it&#8217;s economics so yes. But check out <a href=\"http:\/\/assu.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Economics.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the anti-calendar<\/a> to see what past students thought of their past lectures. Apparently in 2011-2012, the difficulty was more or less average, but the retake rate is a lovely 47%.<\/p>\n<p>As for your GPA&#8230; well, every course affects your GPA. Duuuuh.<\/p>\n<p>xoxo,<br \/>\naska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi I am about to pick courses for first year life science. 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