Tim Riley Economics Textbook Preliminary (1 Viewer)

[hyperbole]

Hey,

Is this a good textbook? It's what our school uses and I'm contemplating whether I should purchase another textbook or not.. do i need to?..

 

[pigs_can_fly]

personally, i don't feel one ecos text book individually is sufficient to cover the course. riley goes outside the syllabus at times, and offers contradicting explanations at times. i'd invest in looking at some of the other text books to compliment each other. rukawasan absolutely swears by leading edge, esp their model answers series, dixon is good but overly simplistic sometimes. bulmer's can get unnecessarily complicated...it just depends wot u find is best for u

 

[overwhelming]

No book is the best. I just learn from my teacher and handouts we are issued with.

 

[santaslayer]

tim dixon eco books r better i reckon

 

[ae]

Dont bother purchasing another textbooks for Preliminary, rarther save it for HSC.
By listening from your teacher is enough to do well in Preliminary years.
But if you commited, use the syllabus with Riley, much of the contents are not needed and his wordings is rarther boring to read.

 

[AGB]

i used riley and dixon, as well as this study guide called 'get smart', and that combination was pretty good...

dont get the leading edge model answer series - they are pathetic....

 

[Newbie]

borrow a bulmer in year 11
helps a lot

 

[overwhelming]

There are no good ecos books :|

trust me on that one.

 

[hyperbole]

thanks everyone for all your help..
I think I'll just borrow the books in the meantime and see how it goes..if I like it, then I'll go out to buy it..

 

[hyperbole]

there are so many textbooks out there...it's really hard to choose

 

[futfut]

riley book looks complicated, if u have a shit teacher like me, u will find eco so hard

 

[hyperbole]

@futfut: i have a pretty bad economics teacher..
i think he tries to impress us with his massive vocabulary but that just confuses us..i don't think he understands that we have only just started the course and using economic terms for everything without explaining their meaning dosen't help...

i borrowed tim dixon recently, its pretty good, nice and simple which works best seeing as how i have only started economics..
is tim dixon leading edge?

 

[AGB]

Originally posted by hyperbole
is tim dixon leading edge?

yes

 

[hyperbole]

thanks agb...lol

 

[*girl04*]

we ae using tim riley one

 

[eling]

We're using a riley n i hav a really gd teacher 4 economics. riley isnt that hard..it actually has explanations . i hav excel at home and its way boring and harder coz it doesnt explain nything

 

[olay]

my teacher has a monotonous voice. so damn hard to concentrate. and he doesn't stick to the syllabus. uber suckyness. :/ We use Riley *hugs textbook* hehe its sitting infront of me as we type.

 

[sunjet]

me and futfut have shit teachers.

 

[*girl04*]

i dont like my ecos teacher that much, better than my biz teacher though. and im not that fond of my riley textbook either, its sorta seems complicated to me

 

[*girl04*]

ive now brought excel so now im working from rileys n excel irts sorta confusing though coz they define stuff differently i think im just stuffing myslef up