<p>I'm thinking of self studying Macro or Micro since none of them are offered at my school. Any recommendations? Any good review books or textbooks I should buy for either one?</p>
<p>Yeah self study its a pretty essay exam really. That is what I’ve been told.</p>
<p>So far I’ve just be covering the basics at this site: [-</a> AP Microeconomics Topics - AP Microeconomics Exam Review Course -](<a href=“http://apexamreview.com/apmicroeconomics/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=15]-”>http://apexamreview.com/apmicroeconomics/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=15)</p>
<p>It gives a pretty good run down of what to expect on the exam.</p>
<p>Why not just do both? </p>
<p>They’re relatively easy AP’s with a decent amount of overlap. For example, your self-study schedule may look like this:</p>
<p>Macro Only: 15 Hours
Micro Only: 15 Hours</p>
<p>Micro and Macro: 20-25 Hours</p>
<p>I would do both because they’re related. I don’t know what these courses consists of, but it sounds pretty easy to self-study.</p>
<p>I’d recommend both as well, for the already stated reasons. AP review books and textbooks generally include both, so if you’re already buying all the material, why not take both?</p>
<p>As for books, our AP Economics (macro and micro) class used a white book with an orange top-half. I forgot what it was called, sorry. But, honestly, the AP review book was much, much more concise and essentially covered everything. We had daily reading chapter quizzes and I almost always got 100% from reading the significantly shorter section in the AP review book. So if you feel like you need/want the extra examples, you can go for the textbook (sorry again that I can’t recommend an exact one). Otherwise, it’s more time and cost effective to just get a good AP review book and take some past AP tests for practice.</p>
<p>I used 5 Steps to a 5 as my review book. I really liked it for its lists of vocabulary after each section, though I didn’t do any of its practice tests so I can’t say how good those are. Economics is pretty much just knowing vocab, reading graphs, and applying what you know, so I don’t think there would be drastic differences between review books. But since I didn’t actually look at all of them, I can’t say from personal experience. Good luck with whatever you decide to do!</p>
<p>I took Macro two years ago and used 5 steps to a 5 as a review book. I thought it was very manageable and I scored a 5 on the exam. Micro overlaps with Macro a little bit, but I’m not sure how much since I didn’t take both exams. Good Luck!</p>
<p>@injennious I’m going to be taking 3 AP classes next year as well as, self studying 3 others so I’m not sure if I can manage both macro and micro. Thanks for the advice though, I’ll see if I can squeeze macro into my schedule since the actual course is only a semester long. Thanks for the support!</p>
<p>Ah, okay. If you’re only choosing one, I felt that micro has more graphs and analysis whereas macro is more conceptual. Try skimming through the books/online websites and see which one is more suited for you. And I hope you still have a great summer with all that self-study going on!</p>
<p>@injennious Yeah I’ll skim the course outline for both macro and micro and then make my decision. Haha thanks, this summer break is not really going to be much of a “break” anymore. Anyways thanks for the help and I hope your summer is doing great!</p>