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AP Microeconomics flashcards, minus the noise.

192 flashcards mapped to the College Board course framework, 70 original practice questions, and 5 FRQ drills with self-scored rubrics — in a calm app with no ads, no games, and no streaks to protect.

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Everything for the May exam, in one place

Four ways to study, all aligned to the same course framework.

Flashcards

A 192-card deck covering all 6 units, audited against the CED with core and supporting concepts marked so you study what's tested and skip what isn't. Your Still Learning / Know ratings schedule each card with SM-2 spaced repetition.

Vocabulary Check

A definition-first pass over the deck: see the definition, recall the term. Built for the recognition-to-recall ramp the exam rewards.

Practice questions

70 original multiple-choice questions written against the CED — never recycled exam content. Every distractor targets a real misconception, and explanations address the trap.

FRQ drills

Two long and three short free-response drills, timed like the exam, with Rycal-written rubrics you score yourself against — plus links to officially released FRQs on AP Central.

Unit by unit

Covered unit by unit

Every unit of the AP Microeconomics framework, each with its own flashcard deck, vocabulary check, and practice questions.

Sample flashcards

A few of the actual cards

Real cards from the AP Microeconomics deck — term on the front, definition on the back.

Scarcity
Scarcity is the lack of sufficient resources to meet society's wants and needs; economic trade-offs arise because of it.
Unit 1 · Basic Economic Concepts
Law of supply
The law of supply states that a change in own-price causes a change in quantity supplied in the same direction — a movement along an upward-sloping supply curve.
Unit 2 · Supply and Demand
Monopoly
A monopoly exists because of barriers to entry: a single seller in a market, protected from competition.
Unit 4 · Imperfect Competition
Externalities
Externalities are either positive or negative and arise from a lack of well-defined property rights and/or high transaction costs; in their presence, rational agents respond to private costs and benefits and not to external costs and benefits.
Unit 6 · Market Failure and the Role of Government
Opportunity cost
Opportunity cost is what must be given up when a choice is made; rational agents include opportunity costs — both explicit and implicit — when calculating the total economic cost of any decision.
Unit 1 · Basic Economic Concepts
Elasticity
Economists use the concept of elasticity to measure the magnitude of percentage changes in quantity owing to changes in the own-price, income, and prices of related goods.
Unit 2 · Supply and Demand
Surplus
A surplus occurs when quantity supplied exceeds quantity demanded at the prevailing price — a disequilibrium that market forces drive toward equilibrium by pushing the price down.
Unit 2 · Supply and Demand
Monopsony
A monopsony is a factor market with a single buyer — for example, the sole employer of labor in a market.
Unit 5 · Factor Markets
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