two weeks left!
just a few general questions.
- how important are graphs? i have yet to do any frq’s so i probably should lol
- i have pr and cliffs for this. good enough? if not, should i buy crash course?
- i’ve got most of it down, and i haven’t looked at khan academy videos on youtube but i have looked at this pajholden guy if any of you recognize his videos. they’ve helped me a lot actually. just wanted to know how good this khan guy is? if you’ve seen pajholden, i mean he teaches it pretty well.</p>
its not my first time taking an ap, but I’m still really scared about this. believe me, i have studied a lot but I’m not sure how I’m gonna do… i guess I’m just looking for some advice. </p>
thanks so much! C:</p>
Graphs are very crucial. you generally need to draw graphs for the long answer question and for at least one of the short answer question. They take up a considerable amount of the points too however sometimes the entire graph is worth 1 or 2 points and you can lose those points if there is even 1 mistake on the graph and everything else is right, such as you forget to label an axis, write D=MR, label the prices and quantities, etc.</p>
I’m on the same boat as you buddy :)</p>
Yeah, you should learn the graphs, each and every one of them as each FRQ is usually geared towards a specific graph. I recommend doing a flashcards with them, that’s what I did, and it really did helped. You must understand how they move and why. Also, be sure to know the externalities (negative and positive) graphs; our professors gave us a FRQ and I had no idea had to do it because I didn’t know such graphs existed! </p>
In fact, you should even focus more on the FRQ rather than the MC (if you’re doing above 45 correct you’ll be fine). I’m currently getting about 45 correct, wanna push that number up to 55 if possible, and just get as many points in the FR as possible. </p>
If you’d like to do the same as I’m planning to do; I’ve printed all FRQs of previews years and I’ll do one section (the 3 questions) per day. Alternating between Macro and Micro (and Calc lol). Hopefully that’ll be a good enough practice and shouldn’t burn me out much, they don’t take too long. You should also take a few full tests as well, maybe during weekends when you’d probably have more time and are more relaxed. If you’re getting constants 4s (or 5s), you’ll probably get the same on the AP! Or maybe you’re like me who keeps getting high 3s and just wants to get to 4 lol</p>
The MC portion is 70% of your score, so I wouldn’t exactly call the FRQ more important. Nonetheless, I agree that graphs are very important - and besides, if you understand the graphs, you can usually answer the MC questions related to it as well.</p>
Yeah but if he gets like 46 MC correct and all FR points he’d get a 5, but if he gets no FR points he’d get a 2. Plus he says he’s got much of the material down, so he shouldn’t have much problem with the MC. However it’s good to note that with the MC alone (if you get more than 50) is enough to reach a 3 even if you get all FR wrong</p>
btw my numbers are taken from AP Pass, of course the curve and stuff could change results and the numbers fluctuate, but tis the best I could find</p>
does anyone have the 2010 released macro exam</p>
Can someone explain how to determine the change in supply/demand of the dollar in regards to foreign exchange and its effect on exchange rates.</p>