AP Microeconomics Tutoring for the May Exam
AP Microeconomics rewards marginal thinking: most questions come down to comparing the extra benefit or revenue of one more unit with its extra cost, and students who memorise market-structure graphs without that logic come apart when a question changes one detail. The graphs themselves — cost curves, a monopolist’s demand and marginal revenue, a labour market — must be drawn and read with precision.
Short answer
AP Microeconomics is offered online, one-to-one or in a group class.
A private lesson runs 90 minutes and starts at USD 65 per lesson; the group course runs 50 lessons of 90 minutes for USD 1,755, and a class never takes more than 6 students.
Group classes next begin on 25 September 2027.
From USD 65 per lesson
Your lessons are taught by Selin Yıldız, who teaches AP Microeconomics.
- 2 scored components, from AP Central
- Live online lessons of 90 minutes
- From USD 65 per lesson
How AP Microeconomics is assessed
Set and scored by College Board and reported on the 1–5 AP scale. Each university sets its own rule on which scores earn credit or placement. Component names are as College Board prints them.
College Board
AP Microeconomics · AP Central exam page
| Component | Share of score | Length | What it involves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Section I: Multiple Choice | 66.7% | 1 hour 10 min | 60 questions in 1 hour 10 minutes across the whole course. A four-function calculator (handheld, or the one built into Bluebook) is allowed in both sections; scientific and graphing calculators are not. |
| Section II: Free Response | 33.3% | 1 hour | 3 questions in 1 hour, including a 10-minute reading period: 1 long question worth half the section and 2 short questions worth a quarter each. You make and explain assertions about economic concepts, models and outcomes, carry out numerical analysis and draw graphs, by hand in a paper booklet. |
- Hybrid exam: answers are entered in Bluebook for multiple choice and handwritten in a paper booklet for free response.
- 2027 exam date: 4 May 2027.
Checked on 8 October 2026
College Board revises individual exams between years. The exam page linked above is the authority for your sitting.
The AP Microeconomics syllabus
Topic names are left in English, as they appear on the paper and in the mark scheme.
Unit 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
Unit 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
Unit 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
Unit 4: Imperfect Competition (15–22%)
Monopoly · Price discrimination · Monopolistic competition · Oligopoly and game theory
Unit 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
Unit 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
Where AP Microeconomics marks are usually lost
Shading the wrong area
Questions ask students to shade or identify consumer surplus, producer surplus, deadweight loss, or a firm’s profit or loss on their own graph. The correct area depends on exactly where the curves meet, and a region drawn one line off loses the point. Monopoly and externality graphs are where this happens most, because there are two quantities to compare and students choose the wrong one.
Profit-maximising versus efficient output
Students confuse the output where marginal revenue equals marginal cost with the socially efficient output where price equals marginal cost, or with the output at which a firm breaks even. Every market structure, and every question on regulation or taxes, depends on keeping these apart. A well-drawn graph with the wrong quantity labelled earns very little of what it could.
Numbers in a table
Some questions give costs, revenues or a payoff matrix as numbers rather than as a graph. Students must calculate marginal values from totals, find a dominant strategy or a Nash equilibrium, and state the result in the terms the question uses. The arithmetic is simple; reading the table in the wrong direction, or reporting a total when the question asked for a marginal value, is the error.
How we teach AP Microeconomics
The tutor teaches marginal analysis first and returns to it in every unit, so perfect competition, monopoly, factor markets and externalities are seen as one decision rule applied to different conditions. Each lesson includes a graph the student draws on a blank page and then defends aloud: why the curve sits there, what changes if a tax, a subsidy or a price floor is added. Released free-response questions are scored against the scoring guidelines line by line, because Microeconomics points are specific — a labelled quantity, a shaded area, a direction of change. Imperfect competition, game theory and factor markets come late in the course, so they are brought forward when a school timetable would leave them until spring.
There is no separate diagnostic, because there is no single test that stands in for two years of a school syllabus. The first lesson is the assessment: the tutor works through your recent marked work, past-paper questions from your own specification, and the units your school has already covered, and reads current level, gaps, exam technique and where school work stands. It is a normal paid lesson and it teaches as it assesses.
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