Economics FAQ Database

24-May-2004 ============ The web site is undergone a major rennovation, in the meantime, some web pages may have STRANGE appearance. However, the core database still works perfectly. The 2003 MC questions have been added. The 2004 MC questions are coming!! 26-Apr-2004 =========== Hi everybody. Long time no see. There will be a MAJOR UPDATE of the site VERY SOON. At least, the 2003 & 2004 papers will be added. Welcome to meet us again. 05-Jan-2003 ========== Happy New Year Everybody. The HKAL MCQ database has updated with the official answer of the HKAL Paper I & II of the year 2002 provided by the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority. Moreover, the percentage of candidates choosing the official correct answers are added in the database, this piece of information is newly added by the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority. 01-Aug-2002 ========== We want to show our deepest thanks to Mr. LI Wai-sing to correct our mistakes of the answer of the MIC Q4 2002. Please note that we have already made the proper corrections on the database. 15-July-2002 ========== We are happy to inform you that the SUGGESTED MC answers of the HKAL Economics paper II (Macroeconomics) of the year 2002 have been posted up. These are only suggested answers and you are very welcome to give comments and queries. 28-May-2002 ========== Please note that the SUGGESTED MC answers of the HKAL Economics paper I (Microeconomics) of the year 2002 have been posted up. These are only suggested answers and you are very welcome to give comments and queries. We are working out the paper II (Macroeconomics) MC answers and hope to come up soon. 14-Mar-2002 ========== Please note that we have recently posted up a CORRECTION about the relationship between the terms of trade (ToT) and the exchange rate in the Economics FAQs section! 13-Feb-2002 ========== Happy Lunar New Year to all. The "official" answers of the MCQs of the year 2001 have been upated and the explanations have been updated and corrected. 03-Oct-2001 ========= A minor modification of the Homepage and a "Guest Book" page is added, please feel free to add you comments. 15-Apr-2001 ========== We have just posted the "suggested answers" of the M.C. questions for the year 2001. They are NOT official released answers, so please feel free to give your comments on those answers and explanations. 24-Mar-2001 ========== I am very happy to announce the opening of our *NEW* Economics FAQs section AND the reconstruction of our Economics Q&A Discussion Forum. Please note that the present Q&A Discussion Forum will be closed permanently on 28 March 2001 (Wed) and the OLD Q&As have been sorted and filed in our FAQs section. Please check the changes of the site and give me comments about this change. It can help us to improve our site. 20-Mar-2001 ========== As mentioned in the message of 2 Feb 2001, I am going to make a major reconstruction of the site. This includes: Firstly, the deletion of 2 minor sections, that is, (1) Economics Issues & (2) HK Statistics, because I am too busy to make the updates of the information provided. Secondly, the addition of a database of Economics FAQs section. The questions and answers in this database are collected from the Economics Q&A Discussion Forum. Please feel free to give comments on this change. 09-Feb-2001 ========== Sorry for the long detail in updating the site because the webmaster is VERY busy. We will have a NEW FAQs section in the coming future! 02-Dec-2000 ========== We have corrected some of the mistakes in the explanations of the 2000 Questions. For you information, we are preparing for a rennovation of the whole web site in this Christmas. Please don't forget to visit us again then. 02-Nov-2000 ========== The (MCQ) database search has come back to work! 29-Oct-2000 ========== The (MCQ) database search is temporary suspended because the database search service is terminated by the web hosting company. We are finding a solution to this matter and we hope we can settle this down within a week. In the meantime, please accept our apologies of the inconvenices caused. 14-June-2000 =========== We have added a 'quick list' page that lists out all the years and numbers of the questions with explanations in our database. Please click the "Our database had XXX answers." to go to the page. 05-June-2000 ========== Because of the broken down of the server that hosted the site, the service has been suspended for 2 days. Although we can come back to work now, some of the Q&As in the discussion forum may be lost. The broken down of the server was unpredicted and we are extremely sorry for what had happened. We will try to backup the site more frequently in the future! 24-Apr-2000 ========== Our Economics Q&A Forum has come back to service now! We have posted the suggested answer of the 2000 HKAL Paper I Section B&C answers in the forum. The paper II answers will be posted up soon. Please give your comments on those answers. 23-Apr-2000 ========== Our Economics Q&A Forum has been TEMPORARY suspended due to some technical problems of the site. We CANNOT Post and Reply to the messages in the forum. We are trying out best to trace the problem and we hope we can solve the problem very soon! Please accept our apology of the inconveniences caused. 17-Apr-2000 ========== The 2000 HKAL MC answers of microeconomics (paper I) and macroecoomics (paper II) has been posted up. Although we have tried our best to do the answers and explanations, we CANNOT guarantee the correctness of them. Please send us comments if you any query about those explanations and answers! 09-Apr-2000 ========== The 2000 HKAL MC answers of microeconomics (paper I) has been posted up recently and the answers of macroeconomics (paper II) is comming soon! 03-Feb-2000 ========== A new page 'Hong Kong Economic Figures' is added to give you a quick reference to Hong Kong economic figures. 29-Jan-2000 ========== We have added a 'hyperlink' to search economics glossary for your convenience. 24-Jan-2000 ========== We have added a new section "HK Economic Issues" to introduce good articles to students. Guiding questions are provided to help the readers. 18-Dec-1999 ========== Today is a great day to us because we have added a *NEW* Economics Q&A forum where you can discuss economic questions with other people ON-LINE. Please try and gives us comments. Moreover we can changed the layout of the whole site. 06-Dec-1999 ========== Thanks to AhTong (a Maths teacher in H.K.) who provides the re-direct service free to our site. You can now reach us by just typing "runs.to/economics". 29-Nov-1999 ========== Please use the uTOK to give comments on this site or to communication with other users. Information of uTOK can be found in: http://www.utok.com 14-Nov-1999 ========== Two new pages,"FAQ" and "My Profile", are added. 06-Nov-1999 ========== Please give your opinion about this site by filling the new survey form. 02-Nov-1999 ========== You can now use the following address: http://www.bigfoot.com/~ECfaq to reach our site. 11-Oct-1999 ========== 11 October 1999 is the GRAND OPENING of this site. We have posted up more than 100 MC questions.