Class Description AP Macroeconomics Exam Prep

AP Macroeconomics Exam Prep

2025 Spring

Class Description

The AP Macroeconomics Exam will test your understanding of the economic concepts covered in the course, as well as your ability to define economic principles and models; explain given economic outcomes; determine outcomes of specific economic situations; and model economic situations using graphs or visual representations. A four-function calculator is permitted for use on both sections of the exam.

This is a hybrid digital exam. You’ll complete multiple-choice questions and view free-response questions in the Bluebook testing app. You’ll handwrite your free-response answers in paper exam booklets.

Exam Duration
2hrs 10mins

Homework
Weekly homework will be assigned. It will take approximately 45 – 90 minutes  to complete.

Exam Date
Friday, May 9, 2025: 12 PM Local

Section I: Multiple Choice
60 Questions 1hr 10mins 66% of Score

Questions require the use of economics content knowledge and reasoning across the range of course topics and skills. You’ll be asked to:

• Define economic principles and models
• Explain given economic outcomes
• Determine the outcomes of specific economic situations

Section II: Free Response
3 Questions 1hr 33% of Score

The 60-minute time limit for this section includes a 10-minute reading period.

• 1 long free-response question (50% of section score)
• 2 short free-response questions (each worth 25% of section score)

You’ll be asked to:

• Make assertions about economic concepts, principles, models, outcomes, and/or effects
• Explain economic concepts, principles, models, outcomes, and/or effects
• Perform numerical analysis and calculations
• Create graphs or visual representations

Darius Bharucha

Mr. Bharucha earned a Bachelor of Arts from Texas Christian University, then went on to the University of Texas at Austin for his classes in education. He earned his MBA in 2011 and is currently working towards a graduate degree in Economics.

Mr. Bharucha has taught for more than 20 years including AP Macroeconomics and AP Microeconomics. He has graded AP Macroeconomics tests for 9 years—one year he was a manager at the reading. The passing rate on the AP exam amongst Mr. Bharucha’s students for both AP Macro and AP Micro is above 91%.

Mr. Bharucha has won many student nominated awards including Wrestler Teacher of the Month twice, Sapphires Teacher of the Week four times, and Outstanding Teacher three times. He’s a student-centered teacher who puts the needs of his students first. Mr. Bharucha prides himself on caring for his students, showing patience, teaching in a way that students can understand, and helping students achieve their goals.

Weekly Schedule

Week 1 – Basic Economic Concepts Unit I; Production Possibilities Curve, Opportunity Cost, Comparative and Absolute Advantage
Week 2 – Supply and Demand, Foreign Exchange
Week 3 – Review Foreign Exchange; Aggregate Demand/Aggregate Supply/Long Run Aggregate Supply; What shifts the AD curve? What shifts the SRAS curve? What shifts the LRAS curve? Effects on PL, GDP, inflation, and u when AD and/or SRAS shift, what will happen in the long run given no government policy interventions?
Week 4 – Finish Aggregate Demand/Aggregate Supply; Investment Demand; Start on Fiscal Policy
Week 5 – Fiscal Policy and Loanable Funds Market–Crowding Out, what moves SLF, what moves DLF, effects of DLF/SLF changes; Spending and Tax Multiplier
Week 6 – Unit IV Monetary Policy (Limited Reserves Environment); Money Market, Excess Reserves, Required Reserves, What changes Money Supply? What changes Money Demand? Effects of changes in MS, effects of changes in MD
Week 7 – Continue with Monetary Policy (Limited Reserves Environment); Real wages in the short run, how monetary policy affects Long Run Aggregate Supply/Economic Growth. Money Multiplier
Week 8 – Phillips Curve, Short Run Phillips Curve, Long Run Phillips Curve; Review of AS/AD, Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy
Week 9 – Balance of Payments; Business Cycle
Week 10 – Calculating GDP, Unemployment, and Inflation; types of unemployment, types of inflation, who benefits from high rates of inflation
Week 11 – Monetary Policy in an Ample Reserves Environment
Week 12 – Review