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REVIEW FOR THE ENTRANCE EXAM – MBUS 2012 OUTLINE
I STATISTICS
II ECONOMICS
III ENGLISH
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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
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♦ Statistics for Management and Economics, Gerald Keller, South-Western Cengage Learning, 2011
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1- MICROECONOMICS
Chapter 1: Supply, Demand, and Market Equilibrium
Chapter 2: Production and Costs
Chapter 3: Firms in Competitive Markets
Chapter 4: Monopoly
4.2 How Monopolies Make Production and Pricing Decisions
4.5 Price Discrimination
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Chapter 5: Introduction to Macroeconomics
Chapter 6: Inflation and Unemployment
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♦ Principles of Economics, Third edition, N.Gregory Mankiw
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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
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
Trang 6Candidates 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