Got my Student Eval back from Excelsior

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I have found many resources and study guides from the advice posted by others but I still have some concerns over World Pop....I wish IC would come up with a study guide for World Pop as it seems to be one most people take. Short of that happening, I guess I'll go to the library and see if Week's book is available and actually study a text book argggg! I have also downloaded the terms associated with the test to familiarize myself with the lingo used. Any other sugestions? I went to the CIA site but was a little overwhelmed with where to start and what to research. Further feedback would be great.........:confused:

Hi Lee,

Congratulations on your 3.75 GPA. If you can keep it up there, you could graduate from Excelsior "Magna Cum Laude". Cool!

Regarding the World Population exam: I haven't taken this exam myself, but I took notes from other people's comments over time. I didn't make a note of who made the following comments, so unfortunately I can't give them due credit.

Here are the two specific files that they recommended. They got an 'A' using ONLY these two sources:

http://www.prb.org/pdf/PopHandbook_Eng.pdf

http://www.prb.org/pdf05/05WorldDataSheet_Eng.pdf

Here is a basic rundown of their additional comments:

[SIZE=2]- Know most of the terms in the glossary at the end of the handbook.
- Know how to figure fertility rates and birth rates. There weren't many math problems, but you do need to know what factors are part of these rates (total population vs. women 15-49).
- Know the phases of the demographic transition and at what phases you'll see certain fertility rates, mortality rates, economic factors. There were at least 15 questions that had something to do with demographic transition, maybe more.
- Know how urbanization plays into population growth.
- I had probably 5-6 questions on Malthus, who is not covered in the materials I listed, so I had no idea who he was.
- There were probably another 4 questions on some of the other theories. - There were a few questions on trends in China's and India's populations, trends on "sub-Saharan" Africa, a few on US population trends.
- Know something about migration and what factors lead people to migrate.
- Know how women's economic and educational successes factor into fertility rates.

I hope this helps you out a little bit more.

Best of luck,
Snazzlefrag


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