Panhellenic Economics & Informatics study guide
Panhellenic Economics & Informatics · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Panhellenic Economics & Informatics examination is a Greek national-level admissions assessment for candidates seeking entry to university departments that combine economics with computing and information systems. It is aimed at upper-secondary graduates who want a degree programme where economic reasoning and technical skill carry equal weight: applied economics, informatics, management science, or digital-economy tracks. The Panhellenic Economics & Informatics study guide has 7 sections and about 2,845 words.
01Microeconomics: Consumer Choice, Costs and Market Structure
The Microeconomics domain of the Panhellenic Economics & Informatics exam (the microeconomic chapters of Αρχές Οικονομικής Θεωρίας) tests your ability to move fluently between a market story, its diagram and its algebra, and to draw the welfare conclusion that follows. Expect consumer optimum, short-run cost curves, the four market structures and elasticity-driven pricing.
452 words, about 2 min02Macroeconomics: National Accounts, Multipliers and Policy
The Macroeconomics domain tests national-account arithmetic, the construction of equilibrium output, and the direction and size of policy effects. The exam favours the Keynesian cross with a government sector, the AD–AS model, the multiplier family, and short questions on inflation, unemployment and the open economy.
421 words, about 2 min03Statistics and Econometrics: Inference and the Linear Model
The Statistics and Econometrics domain tests whether you can choose the right estimator or test, compute it correctly, and interpret the result in the language of the problem rather than in symbols. Typical content: sampling distributions, the central limit theorem, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, and simple or multiple OLS with its assumptions.
429 words, about 2 min04Computer Science Fundamentals: Representation, Logic and Architecture
This domain tests the layer below programming: how numbers and characters are stored, how Boolean logic builds circuits, how the von Neumann machine executes instructions, and how operating systems and networks organise resources. Questions are usually short computational items with a single defensible answer.
374 words, about 2 min05Programming and Algorithms: Tracing, Recursion and Complexity
This domain tests reading code rather than writing it: you must trace pseudocode exactly, identify the output, and classify cost with asymptotic notation. Recursion, array and list manipulation, searching and sorting, and the standard data structures dominate the question bank.
369 words, about 2 min06Databases and Information Systems: Model, Normalisation and SQL
This domain tests the relational model end to end: designing a schema, proving which normal form it satisfies, writing a query that returns exactly the requested rows, and reasoning about transactions and integrity. Marks are lost on small semantic details rather than on big conceptual errors.
391 words, about 2 min07Quantitative Methods: Linear Models, Optimisation and Appraisal
The Quantitative Methods domain supplies the toolkit used elsewhere in the exam: matrix algebra, systems of equations, linear programming, present-value appraisal and index numbers. Questions reward a clean setup and an exact arithmetic check, so method marks are usually available even when the final number goes wrong.
409 words, about 2 min