Đề cương ôn thi mbus của đại học kinh tế tp HCM 2012

UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS HO CHI MINH CITY
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
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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
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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
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