About the Book
Take five easy steps to your best score on the AP Microeconomics/Macroeconomics exams
Nearly 400,000 students have used the 5 Steps to a 5 method for exam success—now it’s your turn to use this bestselling program to reach your ideal score! This book and CD-ROM set guides your preparation program and helps you build the skills, knowledge, and test-taking confidence you need to succeed. The tests closely simulate the real AP exam, so you can get comfortable with the format. Features:
The 5-Step Plan to a Perfect 5: 1. Set Up Your Study Program 2. Determine Your Test Readiness 3. Develop Strategies for Success 4. Develop the Knowledge You Need to Score High 5. Build Your Test-Taking Confidence 3 separate plans for 3 types of students—one will fit you!Updated review material, geared to the most recent tests practice AP Micro exams and 2 practice AP Macro exams in the book On the CD-ROM: 2 more practice AP Micro exams and 2 more practice AP Macro exams
Topics include: Fundamentals of Economic Analysis, Demand, Supply, Market Equilibrium, and Welfare Analysis, Elasticity, Microeconomic Policy, and Consumer Theory, The Firm, Profit, and the Costs of Production, Market Structures, Perfect Competition, Monopoly, and Things Between, Factor Markets, Public Goods, Externalities, and the Role of Government, Macroeconomic Measures of Performance, Consumption, Saving, Investment, and the Multiplier, Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply, Fiscal Policy, Economic Growth, and Productivity, Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy, International Trade, Build Your Test-Taking Confidence, Microeconomics Practice Test 1, Microeconomics Practice Test 2, Macroeconomics Practice Test 1, Macroeconomics Practice Test 2
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Five-Step Program
STEP 1: Set Up Your Study Program
Chapter 1. What You Need to Know About the AP Economics Exams
Chapter 2. How to Plan Your Time
STEP 2: Determine Your Test Readiness
Chapter 3. Take Diagnostic Exams
STEP 3: Develop Strategies for Success
Chapter 4. How to Approach Each Question Type
STEP 4: Review the Knowledge You Need to Score High
Chapter 5. Fundamentals of Economic Analysis
Chapter 6. Demand, Supply, Market Equilibrium, and Welfare Analysis
Chapter 7. Elasticity, Microeconomic Policy, and Consumer Theory
Chapter 8. The Firm, Profit, and the Costs of Production
Chapter 9. Market Structures, Perfect Competition, Monopoly, and Things Between
Chapter 10. Factor Markets
Chapter 11. Public Goods, Externalities, and the Role of Government
Chapter 12. Macroeconomic Measures of Performance
Chapter 13. Consumption, Saving, Investment, and the Multiplier
Chapter 14. Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
Chapter 15. Fiscal Policy, Economic Growth, and Productivity
Chapter 16. Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy
Chapter 17. International Trade
STEP 5: Build Your Test-Taking Confidence
Microeconomics Practice Test 1
Microeconomics Practice Test 2
Macroeconomics Practice Test 1
Macroeconomics Practice Test 2
Appendixes
Bibliography
Web Sites
Glossary
Important Formulas and Conditions
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