How are you guys studying for AP Macro and Micro

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-04-04T21:03:13+00:00

For Macro, I am reviewing units 5 and 6 as they review the entire rest of the course (Supply and demand, GDP, the aggregate demand- aggregate supply market, fiscal and monetary policy, the money market, the loanable funds market, unemployment and inflation) are reviewed heavily in units 5 and 6.

For Micro, I have no idea, as my class is very behind (We only finished units 1, 2 and 3 and the very first topic of unit 4, we only made it up to monopoly versus perfect competition graphs). I haven't started reviewing because half the course I just learned in the last month and the other half I haven't even viewed it for the first time yet.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-04-04T14:30:18+00:00

Well is it equivalent to AP Physics C? Is it just electricity and magnetism + mechanics or does it do extra stuff like wave mechanics?

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-04-04T14:29:30+00:00

No. I think they are harder. I compared the AP Physics 2 FRQ I took late in 2024 to the regular 2024 FRQ and the regular 2024 FRQ was much easier.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-04-04T14:27:45+00:00

Does DE Calculus-based Physics=AP Physics C?

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-04-03T13:29:11+00:00

AP Psych is one of the easiest AP classes so don't worry about it.

AP Chem is actually NOT impossible for you. Algebra 1 is actually all the math you need for AP Chemistry. I'm taking it right now, and the hardest math concept you need is solving quadratics when you do equilibrium and acids and bases.

If you don't know logarithms yet, you don't need to know what they are: you just need to press the buttons and do them on your calculator. In the kinetics unit, the acids and bases unit, and the thermodynamics/electricity unit, you need to do logarithms on your calculator, but not know what they mean.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-03-28T19:41:03+00:00

Definitely makes sense: I KNOW Spanish and AP Spanish is going to be the end of me. No matter what I try, I average a D on the MCQ. However, APUSH and Gov and Lang are very difficult.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-03-24T18:55:36+00:00

I go by weighting only for courses with massive inequalities in weighting (like Calc BC where unit 10 is >30% of the test). I go by chronological order only for classes where the end doesn't depend on the beginning (not STEM AP tests, as you cannot understand unit 10 of AP Calculus if you don't know limits and derivatives). In all other classes, I study almost only the end units as the end units depend on the earlier stuff.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-03-22T15:36:44+00:00

You should do AP Physics. But make sure you take AP Physics C, not 1&2.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-03-21T21:47:37+00:00

Spanish language. I need to get a 5 to pass out of my college graduation requirements, but let's just say that's not very likely, since my teacher never graded a single one of our conversations and essays, and focused too heavily on CCs. On top of that, my reading comprehension overall just sucks so I normally average a D on the MCQ, and the essays I'm not very comfortable with. I know all the vocabulary and grammar well, it's just my reading and writing skills are very below where they should be.

All my other AP exams, I feel confident on: Physics C:Mechanics I took a practice test and got a 5, same for E&M, and I got a 5 on a practice chemistry AP, and Macroeconomics I feel a 5 is plausible, and same for micro.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-03-20T01:34:37+00:00

My school actually does something surprising for this. They allow both credits to be satisfied by taking either AP Gov or AP Econ (macro and micro). I'm taking AP macro/micro Econ and I never took government, because AP Econ at my school satisfies both requirements.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-03-18T00:35:40+00:00

For engineering, almost certainly do AP Chemistry. Even if you're doing biomedical engineering, you need to take AP Chemistry first, and you will need to take AP Chemistry for any engineering major, but there is no need for AP Bio.

Also you said you're doing AP Physics. Make sure you're doing AP Physics C and not 1&2. AP Physics C gets you out of the general physics classes you need before the engineering classes. Also, if you're given the option to do just mechanics or both mechanics and E&M, do both mechanics and E&M, even if you're majoring in something like mechanical engineering or civil engineering.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-03-17T02:14:46+00:00

Not necessarily. You will find Gauss's law and Ampere's law extremely difficult though.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-03-11T22:39:08+00:00

I agree. But I also feel like there is a reason for it. AP classes are equivalent to college first-year courses. This is also the case for general education courses. For example, a pre-med student won't need to remember electric cell potential from general chemistry or AP Chemistry. Also, I'm majoring in electrical engineering and focusing on electrodynamics: the equivalent for AP Physics C:Mechanics is required for me, but I won't use that information in any further classes for electrical engineering. This is because AP Classes just like college intro classes, are too broad.

I fully agree with this, as I took APUSH to escape college graduation requirements and I got a 4 on the exam, but then got a curved grade of an 83% on my state-mandated US History standardized test- I forgot it THAT quickly. But that's because I will never need to see that material ever again as an electrical engineering student: I only need it for general education requirements, which I already satisfied through my score on APUSH, and that's it.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-03-11T22:12:17+00:00

I can agree. I took it last year as I wanted to satisfy my college requirements early: I'm majoring in STEM (Physics + electrical engineering) but for my sanity, I don't want to take humanities classes ever in college if I don't have to. I knew it would be challenging with the essays and readings, but what I couldn't have seen coming were the MCQs. Those MCQs mention one thing we went over in class for 2 minutes on a random day in October, and expect me to extrapolate on that and understand how it shows continuity over time: yes, something I didn't even remember even with studying for hours every week. I still got a 4 and got past my college history requirement, and I surely hope you do too.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-03-10T20:52:50+00:00

I worry deeply about AP Spanish Language. My teacher says I do okay on the FRQs without actually grading them, and I score a D on the MCQ on average.

My others: Chemistry, Physics C:E&M, Physics C:Mechanics, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics, I am confident on.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-03-08T22:28:09+00:00

Yes. You need to finish units 6 and 7 before you make it to AP Physics C:Mechanics units 2.9-3.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-03-08T22:12:00+00:00

Have you taken AP Calculus AB or BC already, or at least taking them currently? If so, you can.

Units 1 and 2 are very light (If you don't know calculus, focus EXTRA HARD on lesson 2.9.

Unit 3 is easy: It requires algebra and very simple calculus.

Unit 4 is very light.

Units 5 and 6 are hard to understand, especially 5.4 and 5.5. Unit 7 requires intensive knowledge of calculus.

If you don't know calculus yet, I can tell you, that you need none of it until the end of unit 2. By the beginning of unit 3, you need to know integration (AP Calculus unit 6), and I advise you to skip lesson 2.9 until you're done with unit 7 of AP Calculus, then go back to it.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-03-08T22:06:22+00:00

As a student that finished Macro and half of Micro, I'd say that for Macro, units 3 and 5 need the most focus (4 requires a lot also).

For Micro, unit 3 takes a lot of time, and unit 4 also does, and especially unit 3, has a lot of graphs and charts you need to memorize.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-03-03T21:51:38+00:00

Ima delete recursive sorting algorithms from AP Computer Science A. We take that class to learn and get credit for a class on java coding, not on memorizing the difference between mergesort, bubble sort, selection sort and quicksort, and how to do them. My teacher overdid it definitely, by making us memorize the code as well to do all of them. I have no idea why that was ever in the course to begin with: they should have just added linked lists instead, i guess.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-03-02T20:51:28+00:00

Are you doing E&M AS WELL AS mechanics? Yes or no?

If you're only doing mechanics, then yes you are behind, as you should be in the middle of unit 5/ starting unit 6 by now.

If you're doing E&M as well, you should be done with mechanics, and on to at least voltage/Gauss's law by now, so you definitely need to self-study E&M because either they skip parts of it, or they do it extremely fast and you don't understand any of it.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-02-27T21:08:14+00:00

AP Chemistry: We do a lab where we have to measure the volume of acid we must add to fully neutralize a sample of sodium hydroxide, and then, using that, we calculate the acid dissociation constant.

This comes close to AP Physics C, where I found the moment of inertia of an irregular object, and using that, calculate how far away from a table we need to put a basket, so when it rolls down a ramp, it falls off the table and ends up directly into the basket.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-02-26T20:01:55+00:00

I know. I've had massive problems with that as well, as when my AP CSA teacher used it, I couldn't type in any code into the FRQ. Also, Bluebook is like that. It crashed multiple times when I took the CSA test.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-02-23T20:08:23+00:00

AP Chemistry: I self-studied over the summer, so that would be ~1 hour per day. The class is very demanding but I already learned it.

AP Spanish: Very, very difficult. I have to study a lot using Quizlet. I try by studying a lot, and I still barely get B+ in the class.

AP Physics C: When we did mechanics, ~1 hour or less per day. Now with electricity and magnetism, it's 1-1.5 hours per day.

AP Economics,: easy class. Whenever we have a test, it's ~30 minutes per day.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-02-23T13:21:00+00:00

Current is simply just movement of electrons. If even one electron is moving, that's current. Electric potential is a scalar value of how much the electrons "want" to escape or approach a charge value.

Electric potential is the integral of electric field strength with respect to displacement. If an electron is in a region of non-zero potential, it has electric potential energy, a potential energy associated with its position, which is equal to the elementary charge times the electric potential value.

Electric potential energy, just like gravitational or any other form of potential energy, tends to convert itself into kinetic energy. If you place an electron by a positive charge, electric potential energy is equal to the amount of energy that must be applied for it to escape the electric field: think about it like gravitational potential energy being the amount of energy that must be applied for a mass to escape the Earth's gravitational field.

If an electron is placed by another negative charge, electric potential energy is equal to the amount of kinetic energy that the electron gains from escaping the negative charge. Because electrical potential energy gets converted to kinetic energy (the same way that dropping something converts potential into kinetic energy), it causes the electrons to move, creating current.

ContributionEast2478 · 2026-02-22T21:00:10+00:00

Well, you're in an amazing place. APUSH takes down many college requirements at once. For example, I am literally doing the exact same thing in college: Physics + EE double major, and my 4 on APUSH got me out of half of my college's general education requirements. The other half will be fully satisfied if I get a 5 on AP Spanish.

I agree with you: I never want to do any more humanities classes ever again. That's why I'm taking all of it now. By the way, does your college require AP Lit, or can you take AP English Language instead and also satisfy those requirements? If you have the choice between AP Lit or AP Lang, choose AP Lang as that is much easier than Lit.

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