Frequent graded exercises will give you an incentive to keep up. The second is that no one graded exercise is critical to your final grade, which hopefully will reduce the amount of tension surrounding each one. You may look at last year's examinations to help you prepare for the midterms and the final. This year's examinations and problem sets will be linked to the course schedule, below. Hints and instructions for completing the problem sets are also available.
Extra credit is possible on a number of exercises and exams.
Make sure you understand the extra credit policy . In particular, the course does not require calculus. However, those of you who would like to use calculus are encouraged to do so and a number of the discussion sections throughout the semester will highlight the application of calculus to microeconomics. Many of you will find that calculus will help you to understand economics from a new perspective. Calculus should also make it easier to solve many of the problems you will see on the problem sets.