AP Micro/Macro

AP Micro/Macro (AP Microeconomics and AP Macroeconomics) are a pair of semester courses usually taken together. This page offers a viewpoint and comparison of each.

AP Micro/Macro are classes focused on economic theory. If you enjoyed the popular book and podcast Freakonomics you could potentially dislike these courses because Freakonomics focuses on the application and research involved in economics whereas these only focus on economic theory, with some finding it boring and others the opposite.

The majority of the class involves learning about types of graphs, economic terms, and economic trends and policy.

The core graph that all students grow to know and love is the supply and demand graph:



AP Micro/Macro are not a particularly challenging courses in that the topics are not as complicated as ones you might find in a weighted math or science class. Rather, the classes require much more memorization of topics and application of concepts of variety of flexible ways.

Lectures
There are almost daily lectures about the content for the unit.

ACDC
ACDC Economics by Jacob Clifford provides Micro and Macro worksheets and videos. The worksheets are used as the primary form of homework we are given throughout the course. There are worksheets for each topic in the unit however you may not be assigned to worksheets for every unit and some cover more than one. There are also review worksheets that we are given at the end of the unit as well.

Ultimate Review Packet
Ultimate Review Packet is a website for ACDC content that provides review resources you can use to review for unit test and the AP test. It includes review sheets and answers.