<p>AP micro or macro? </p>
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<p>I have a choice between taking AP micro or taking AP macro. NOw, THey are a semester long for each. I am more into humanities and don't like technical stuff like math, formulas, etc, however I am not bad at math. I am not the best at calculus concepts and trignometry but I am still capable of learning them. Which should I take? Also, If I take both together, it would NOT be one semester after the other, it would be both of them together (period one AP mAcro, period two AP mIcro). If I take both, wouldn't I just get confused???? ALso, we are using the Mcconnel and brue book.</p>
<p>any advice. What's the difference between the two? should I take one or the other, recommendations, or both?</p>
<p>Thanks!!!!</p>
<p>Linda</p>
<p>I've taken a course in microeconomics at a local university and am going to self-study for the AP in macroeconomics.</p>
<p>Microeconomics focuses on individual areas of activity e.g. firms and households, while macroeconomics focuses on the behavior of the economy at the aggregate level.</p>
<p>At the AP level, there is no math beyond basic algebra. I don't think you will get confused if you take both together. </p>
<p>:-) I used the McConnell and Brue book too. It contains a lot more information than you will need for the AP. In fact, there really isn't much on the AP at all, and if you wanted to save your class time for something more interesting, you could self-study micro, macro, or both with considerably more ease than if you wanted to self-study something like AP U.S. History.</p>
<p>Dont do micro, a lot of it is trivial, and unless you study real firms, its boring. Macro is a lot better because you get to see how governments protect their own companies and you get to see international relations. IMO its much better.</p>
<p>I'd say take both because they are both AP courses that are relatively easy in difficulty...</p>
<p>Can you take macro without taking micro?</p>
<p>In some schools you can...it seems in the OP's school it is possible to take one but not the other...but in other schools (like mine)...they roll the two courses together and call it AP Econ so that you have to take both...</p>