AP Microeconomics Tutoring & Prep Course
Short answer
The AP Microeconomics group course is live online: 50 lessons, 90 minutes each, 75 hours in all.
Group lessons are taught in classes of at most 6 students.
The current group's lessons began on 26 September 2026. The group course fee is €1,573 in one payment.
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AP Microeconomics tutoring covering supply and demand, market structures and welfare analysis. FRQ graphing strategy for a score of 5.
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About the subject
AP Microeconomics: what it covers and who it suits
AP Microeconomics tutoring at TestPrep Europe drills the six College Board units — basic concepts, supply and demand, production, market structures, factor markets, market failure — across MCQ and FRQ formats. The exam rewards labelled cost-curve diagrams and clear MR = MC reasoning across the four market structures.
Your lessons are taught by Selin Yıldız, who teach AP Microeconomics.
- All 6 units, basic concepts through market failure
- Cost-curve diagrams (ATC, AVC, MC) drilled to reflex
- Four market structures (PC, monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition) compared in parallel
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AP Microeconomics builds the toolkit for analysing individual decisions, markets and firm behaviour. It is essential preparation for university economics, business and finance programmes, and increasingly relevant for computer science and policy programmes that draw on market design and game theory.
AP Microeconomics is a one-semester university-level course covering the behaviour of individuals and firms in markets. It begins with the fundamental concepts of scarcity and opportunity cost, then moves through supply and demand, elasticity, costs of production, the four market structures (perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly and monopoly), factor markets, and the role of government in correcting market failures. The exam is graph-heavy: a typical FRQ asks students to draw a labelled diagram and use it to support a multi-step analytical argument. Our AP Micro programme drills graph-drawing fluency, vocabulary precision and FRQ structure; many students take Micro and Macro together and we build the curriculum to capitalise on the overlap.
One-to-one AP Microeconomics tutoring
Our one-to-one AP tutoring is built entirely around the student's current level and target score. Each lesson works on your specific weak topics, drills exam-format questions and teaches free-response and essay technique with the College Board's scoring guidelines in front of us. Our tutors follow every revision of the Course and Exam Description, so the work you put in matches what is rewarded in May.
AP Microeconomics small-group course
Our small-group AP courses (no more than 6 students per class) give you a structured weekly programme alongside students aiming for the same score. The syllabus follows the College Board's Course and Exam Description unit by unit, and every lesson is taught live online.
Exam
AP Microeconomics exam format
The College Board runs the AP Microeconomics exam every May. Sections, timing and weighting:
Section I: Multiple Choice
66%60 questions in 1 hour 10 minutes. Calculator permitted.
Section II: Free Response
33%3 questions (1 long + 2 short) in 1 hour, including a 10-minute reading period. Heavy emphasis on graph-based analysis.
Exam format
Hybrid digitalMultiple-choice questions are answered in the Bluebook app; free-response questions are shown in Bluebook and answered by hand in a paper booklet. A four-function calculator is allowed on both sections. 2027 exam date: 4 May 2027.
One-to-one AP tutoring
AP Microeconomics Private Tutoring
Private AP lessons planned around you: the units you find hardest, your school's pace and the score you are aiming for. Every lesson is live and online, with a tutor who teaches this subject.
- A lesson plan built around your target score
- Every unit of the College Board course, in the order you need it
- Multiple-choice and free-response technique, checked against College Board scoring guidelines
- Lesson times that fit around your school week
How it works
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Tell us your goal
We start from your school syllabus, your exam date and the result you are aiming for.
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Your own plan
We map out the lessons you need, unit by unit.
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Live one-to-one lessons
Meet your tutor online at times that suit your week.
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Regular progress checks
Homework and a short check after each lesson show how you are getting on.
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Group course
A Private Group for This Subject
There is no open group timetable for this subject in 2026–27. If 3 or more of you sign up together, we open a private group course for you — at the same price as the open group course. Lessons are taught in English.
Course fee
€1,573the same as an open group course
At least 3 students · you set the weekly timetable together
Each student buys their own place online, and we let you know as soon as your group is ready.
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Syllabus
AP Microeconomics topics
Unit and topic names are the College Board's own. Percentages are each unit's share of the exam score, as the College Board publishes them.
1Unit 1: Basic Economic Concepts
12–15%
- Scarcity
- Resource allocation and economic systems
- The Production Possibilities Curve
- Comparative advantage and gains from trade
- Cost-benefit analysis
- Marginal analysis and consumer choice
2Unit 2: Supply and Demand
20–25%
- Demand
- Supply
- Elasticity
- Market equilibrium, disequilibrium, and changes in equilibrium
- The effects of government intervention in markets
- International trade and public policy
3Unit 3: Production, Cost, and the Perfect Competition Model
22–25%
- The production function
- Short- and long-run production costs
- Types of profit
- Profit maximization
- Perfect competition
4Unit 4: Imperfect Competition
15–22%
- Monopoly
- Price discrimination
- Monopolistic competition
- Oligopoly and game theory
5Unit 5: Factor Markets
10–13%
- Introduction to factor markets
- Changes in factor demand and factor supply
- Profit-maximizing behavior in perfectly competitive factor markets
- Monopsonistic markets
6Unit 6: Market Failure and the Role of Government
8–13%
- Socially efficient and inefficient market outcomes
- Externalities
- Public and private goods
- The effects of government intervention in different market structures
- Income and wealth inequality
Approach
How we teach AP Microeconomics
Study plan
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Phase 1 — Basic concepts + supply and demand (Units 1–2)
Scarcity, PPC, market equilibrium, surplus, elasticity
- Consumer and producer surplus on every diagram
- PED / YED / XED / PES with calculation
- Tax incidence and deadweight loss
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Phase 2 — Production and costs (Unit 3)
Production functions, short-run vs long-run cost curves
- Total / marginal / average product
- ATC, AVC, MC relationships
- Long-run cost curve and economies of scale
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Phase 3 — Market structures (Unit 4)
PC, monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition
- MR = MC profit-maximisation across all four
- Short-run vs long-run equilibrium contrasts
- Game theory and dominant-strategy reasoning
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Phase 4 — Factor markets + market failure (Units 5–6) + mock
Labour markets, externalities, public goods, redistribution
- MRP and labour-market diagrams
- Pigouvian taxes and subsidies on externalities
- Released FRQs to rubric
How lessons work
Diagram-first answers
Each FRQ opens with a fully labelled diagram before prose. The diagram earns rubric points and the explanation flows from it.
Four market structures in parallel
PC, monopoly, oligopoly and monopolistic competition are taught side by side using a comparison grid, so students never mix up the demand curves under time pressure.
Externalities and tax incidence as fixed routines
These are core Unit 6 FRQ topics. We drill them as scripted templates rather than improvising on exam day.
Advice
AP Microeconomics: common mistakes and study tips
MistakeProfit-maximisation answers without MR = MC.
FixEvery market-structure FRQ pivots on MR = MC. State the rule and find the quantity, then read the price off the demand curve.
MistakeConfusing perfect competition firm vs market diagrams.
FixAlways draw both side by side: market sets price, firm takes price. Label which is which before writing prose.
MistakeTreating monopoly demand as horizontal.
FixMonopoly faces the market demand curve, which is downward sloping. MR is below D and twice as steep.
MistakeWrong shutdown vs exit logic.
FixShutdown in the short run if P < AVC; exit in the long run if P < ATC. Use the right comparison for the time frame.
MistakeVague externality answers ('there's a negative effect').
FixShow the divergence between MSC and MPC (or MSB and MPB) on a diagram, identify the deadweight loss, and propose a Pigouvian remedy.
MistakeIgnoring elasticity in tax-incidence questions.
FixWhoever is more inelastic bears more of the tax. Draw the elasticity ratios before assigning incidence.
Study tips
- Graphs are the language of AP Micro FRQs — practise drawing every standard diagram (S/D, MC/MR, externality, game-theory matrix) under time pressure.
- Always label every axis, curve and equilibrium point; unlabelled diagrams lose points even when the shape is correct.
- Memorise the comparative properties of the four market structures cold: efficiency, profit, price-setting power, ease of entry.
- On welfare-analysis questions, identify producer surplus, consumer surplus and deadweight loss explicitly — AP rubrics reward exact terminology.
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Other subjects
Related and other AP subjects
Often taken alongside this subject
- AP MacroeconomicsStandard pairing — most universities expect both AP economics exams for credit.
- AP StatisticsQuantitative reasoning that strengthens micro data interpretation.
- AP Calculus ABUseful for students aiming at quantitative economics at university.
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