ECE World Population

[libartsmgr]

Whew! I think I've settled down enough from my excitement of finally getting something off my life "to do" list after... ahem... 12 years!

I used the book recommended in the EC guide - Population, by Weeks - and I printed a couple of bulletins from prb.org.

Be sure you know this:
--population trends of China (I printed the bulletin on China but didn't end up reading it because the author was not the same listed in the guide and I think it cost me on the exam.) Past - was was different about how China developed? Present - population, gender ratio. Future - how will China continue to evolve?
--to a lesser extent, know the trends of India. China and India are the two most populous countries in the world
--know all the fertility/mortality formulas - which is which, I only had one question with math related to them, but I could do it in my head
--know what will cause an old population, what will cause a declining population - low/high migration, low/high fertility, low/high mortality
--know the theorists - I was expecting a lot on Malthus but instead got mostly Marx questions (one on Mill and a couple on the others)
--know the population transition theory cold, I didn't focus as much as I should have on it, and that probably hurt, too.
--There was a question on some therory of 69 that I had never heard of so look that up
--know which ethnic group has lowest mortality in US, know the types of households in US
--know the migration trends in the US and world
um, that's all I can remember at the moment...

If you get Week's book and read it cover to cover along with the prb.org bulletins, you'll ace it. If you hit the main points section of some of the chapters and read most parts of the bulletins, you'll get a B, like I did.

With any luck, I may acutally gratuate with a 3.5 GPA. I'm calling EC on Tuesday to get the ball rolling on my graduation process. I'll post my experience about that as well.

Once my degree is actually conferred, its off to the beach for a few days of nothing but my hubby, kid, sand, surf, and sun! Oh yeah, and the dozen or so oil derricks off in the distance, it is the Texas coast after all.