Just finished the exam… did anyone else think that the short answer section was horrible? Only one person in our class actually finished it, and it seemed like all of the 3 were extremely difficult.</p>
<p>I think I did very well on number one, got like the first half of number 2, then I forgot about elasticity, so I kinda just guessed and may have gotten the rest of it. Then Q3 happened</p>
<p>A lot easier than the macro exam. At least a 4.</p>
<p>I felt like macro was much easier for osme reason, and I only spent 2 days this week self studying it</p>
<p>See, here’s the problem with question 3: International trade isn’t part of the required syllabus for AP Micro put out by the college board (neither are the different types of subsidies discussed in question 1).</p>
<p>Not only that, it’s a Macro concept: International trade can show up on Macro, but is not supposed to be on Micro at all. Finally, tariffs are a miniscule aspect of Macro itself.</p>
<p>So let’s review: we have a question that isn’t part of the course, includes material from another course, from which it bases half the question on a subsection of a subsection.</p>
<p>Thank you, Collegeboard.</p>
<p>for some reason, my test was form B. will this invalidate my score???</p>
<p>I agree with whoever says that Macro was easier… but maybe that’s because I self-studied for Micro.</p>
<p>Both tests were easy; I wonder if the lack of difficulty is going to induce a harsher curve.</p>
<p>Macro was a breeze. Walked out feeling good. Micro MC wasn’t too awful. And then came the horror that was the Micro FRQ. First one was okay, not great. Second one was semi-doable. Third question ruined me. Maybe got a one or two points tops. It just seemed way too specific for an FRQ, and definitely harder than most of the released ones. Oh well, praying for a 4 on micro, pretty sure I got a 5 on macro.</p>
<p>Maybe our whole class thought the FRQ’s were so difficult because none of us took macro (school doesn’t offer it). The first one was ok, took some planning (and many attempts) to draw a monopoly with economic losses, and wasn’t quite sure about total revenue or the lump sum subsidy. Second one was fine until the cross elasticity part, which we had done briefly but had never really bothered to memorize the formula. I could figure out that they were complements, but couldn’t calculate the specific value. Third one, absolutely no clue. We never did anything with tariffs, only excise taxes. </p>
<p>I’m just really hoping that our class isn’t the only one that didn’t learn half of the stuff on the FRQ’s, not taking macro and all.</p>
<p>The micro was comparatively harder than macro (learned micro over the course of a semester, macro over the course of a few weeks). The micro MC had some difficult problems but the FRQs were definitely doable – they were covered pretty thoroughly in my course. The macro MC was fairly easy and the FRQs were very straightforward.</p>
<p>I thought the third question was incredibly easy, I finished it during the reading period. The first was pretty good and the second was absolutely horrible for me (I forgot all of the necessary equations). It was worse than I expected but I still feel ok about it. I don’t think any of it was out of the course’s curriculum, we had at least been exposed to all of it at some point, and we had done previous released questions similar to all of the ones on the exam today.</p>
<p>I forgot how to to what we were asked to do on the last question so I set everything up wrong from the beginning. Could I still get points if I based a lot of my answers from something I did wrong in the beginning but the work is right? I feel mostly confident about mc so the last frq could be the difference between a 4 and 5…predictions for the curve this year?</p>
<p>i was pretty sad about macro. i think i got a 4…
i am pretty sure i got a 5 on micro. i had form F but i heard that form O was pretty hard so i am very fortunate</p>
<p><a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;
<p>Page 7: “The course[Microeconomics] also emphasizes the impact of government policies, such as price floors and ceilings, excise taxes, TARIFFS, and quotas on the free-market price and quantity exchanged.”</p>
<p>Really? I thought the micro was super easy. I think i aced everything. And yes, the tariffs and international trades were part of the curriculum. They popped up on previous frqs. Msg me if u have any questions from the exam. Ill be happy to answer them</p>
<p>I finished the mc in 20 minutes, and frqs in 10 minutes… Iono, ecnomic ap came naturally to me :)</p>
<p>Think I did pretty well on the MC; didn’t get many points on the FRQs. Hoping for a 3.</p>
<p>Anyone notice that a pound of sugar is apparently priced at $2 million?</p>
<p>I took macro and micro and I definitely thought that the micro exam level of difficulty far surpassed that of the macro exam. In my micro testing room there were two different forms and from what I heard the other form was way easier than the one I had (form O). That really aggravates me and confuses me as AP exams usually don’t have multiple forms. I thought the multiple choice questions were worded awfully and were tricky and the free response questions were just difficult and some of the material was not heavily emphasized in the course (question 3). It is what it is though.</p>
<p>Prep books have no mention of tariffs…</p>
<p>As for the multiple forms, CB implemented that this year to reduce cheating and to be able to release an exam every year.</p>