<p>Hi everyone. Its summer, and I was thinking about if I should self-study these APs.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any experience? Or can recommend a good prep book?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Just study off a very good set of notes..don't over-read.</p>
<p>I took the Macro online - I wouldn't recommend self-studying. I would suggest getting a textbook though, and not just the Princeton Review - some of the curves and diagrams you are required to draw can be challenging without sufficient practice.</p>
<p>i studied w/ Kaplan and google.com and i found those two pretty helpful</p>
<p>My mom is teaching me Macro and Micro (she majored in Economics and has a Ph.D in Econ) </p>
<p>All she did was preview the course with Barron's book, read through the old FRs from AP Central, and flipped through the Princeton Review book. Then she bought a used textbook on economics somewhere and now she's teaching me!</p>
<p>Yeah, I wouldn't recommend using PR alone. I heard Barron's can complements PR pretty well.</p>
<p>Practice drawing the graphs... don't try to memorize them just by looking at them.</p>
<p>Don't waste time learning the structure or functions of the fed or any other domestic/international trade org. It won't come up once. Most of the questions are phrased like this: </p>
<p>"If X (cost of production, interest rates, whatever) rises and Y happens (again, flood, war, whatever), will A, B, or C happen?"</p>
<p>Just be good with cause-and-effect econ. get used to answering questions like that (as poor of an example as it was)... and you'll be fine.</p>
<p>Also, don't think too, too much about the questions. For some of the questions, I thought, whether incorrectly or correctly, "well, <em>eventually</em> this would happen..." Bad, very bad. Most of the time they're looking for immediate cause and effect.</p>