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<li>Take AP Macro in class</li>
<li>Self-study AP Macro</li>
<li>Self-study Macro and Micro</li>
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I self-studied AP Calculus AB last year and felt pretty comfortable with the experience – mainly, choosing the amount of work I had on any given night. I’m wondering how much of a time investment self-studying AP Macro would be, considering that I’m a fairly efficient student. How much more time does Micro involve if I study for the two simultaneously? I’m not looking for book recommendations necessarily, but just how much time it would involve, because I don’t want to overwork myself.</p>
<p>How much time it involves really depend on how much you want to prepare, how efficient you are, etc. In my experience, I didn’t really simultaneously study both of them - I finished Micro and kept reviewing as I learned Macro. There is only a small amount (< 10%) that is “shared” basic economic concepts between both exams but you can and should relate Micro and Macro concepts.</p>
<p>My question is: Why do you want to self-study Macro?</p>
<p>If you have AP Macro available as a class, there’s no need to self-study (unless there’s another class you’d rather take). You could take the class and self-study Micro, if you want (Option 4?). If you need the college credit, it’s worth it.</p>
<p>Economics - all logic bro.
This leads to this, which leads to this.</p>
<p>Get like an econ textbook to help you at as well, because sometimes the AP review books do tend to skip over details, which could be important to your understanding.</p>
<p>My high school used Mankiw for both Macro and Micro.</p>
<p>I think this is do-able. My teacher didn’t teach much at all. I had to study for all the hard concepts on my own. In fact, we didnt go over a third of the material listed in the ap review book, and I had studied it the night before. I have no idea how I was able to hold it all in cause about 15 questions came from this new material. I was still able to make 5’s on both exams.</p>
<p>If you like logic, and like cause and effect stuff, econ should be pretty easy to understand.</p>
<p>@ 4khaos: I wouldn’t have to take the class if I self-studied it, so I could have an extra study hall. This would be advantageous if I find that I don’t need to spend the entire study hall doing economics work – then I could do other homework and save myself some time overall.</p>
<p>@ knightrider323: I will keep this in mind. Thanks!</p>