Calendar for Each Plan
Plan A: You Have a Full School Year to Prepare
Use this plan to organize your study during the coming school year.14 á Step 1. Set Up Your Study Program
SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER(Check off the activities as
you complete them.)
Determine the student mode (A, B, or C)
that applies to you.
Carefully read Chapters 1 to 4 of this book.
Take the Diagnostic Exam.
Pay close attention to your walk-through of
the Diagnostic Exam.
Get on the Web and take a look at the AP
website(s).
Skim the review chapters in Step 4 of this
book. (Reviewing the topics covered in this
section will be part of your yearlong prepa-
ration.)
Buy a few color highlighters.
Flip through the entire book. Break the
book in. Write in it. Toss it around a little
bit... highlight it.
Get a clear picture of your own school’s AP
Economics curriculum.
Begin to use this book as a resource to sup-
plement the classroom learning.
NOVEMBER(the first 10 weeks have elapsed)
Read and study Chapter 5, “Fundamentals
of Economic Analysis.”
Read and study Chapter 6, “Demand,
Supply, Market Equilibrium, and Welfare
Analysis.”
DECEMBER
Read and study Chapter 7, “Elasticity,
Microeconomic Policy, and Consumer
Theory.”
Review Chapters 5 to 6.
JANUARY(20 weeks have elapsed)
_____ Read and study Chapter 8, “The Firm,
Profit, and the Costs of Production.”
_____ Review Chapters 5 to 7.FEBRUARY
_____ Take Microeconomics Practice Exam 1 in
the first week of February.
_____ Evaluate your Micro strengths and weaknesses.
_____ Study appropriate chapters to correct your
Micro weaknesses.
_____ Read and study Chapter 9, “Market
Structures, Perfect Competition, Monopoly,
and Things Between.”
_____ Review Chapters 5 to 8.MARCH (30 weeks have now elapsed)
_____ Read and study Chapter 10, “Factor
Markets.”
_____ Review Chapters 5 to 9.APRIL
_____ Read and study Chapter 11, “Public Goods,
Externalities, and the Role of Government.”
_____ Review Chapters 5 to 10.MAY(first two weeks) (THIS IS IT!)
_____ Review Chapters 5 to 11—all the material!
_____ Take Practice Exam 2.
_____ Score yourself.
_____ Get a good night’s sleep before the exam. Fall
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