
Advanced Placement® Edition
Macroeconomics
Senior Consultant: Tracy Lowd
Make college level content accessible to all students without sacrificing the rigor required for success
- 100% aligned to the most current AP® Macroeconomics College Board® CED.
- Concise and focused content.
- Scaffolded skill development.
- AP-style assessment practice.
Each topic includes:
- The Essential Question.
- A narrative aligned to the course framework.
- A reflection/review of the Essential Question.
- A set of multiple-choice questions and long free-response questions.
Extensive AP exam preparation includes hundreds of AP-style multiple-choice and free-response questions and three full-length practice tests—one in the Student Edition and two in the Teacher Resource.
- All test items have been meticulously constructed to model the format and quality of those on the exam.
- Each question is tied to a specific learning objective from the course framework, allowing teachers to quickly diagnose individual and class performance.
NEW for Summer 2026, Interactive Editions offer enhanced features to support your classroom.
Authentic AP Testing Experience
Give students a true AP exam dry run with full‑length, AP‑style practice tests in a digital player that mirrors test day, including realistic timing, planned section breaks, and exam‑like tools. Students practice pacing, reduce anxiety, and build confidence before the real exam. Teachers get data reports to inform instruction.
Assessment Builder
Quickly create customized assessments from a bank of ready‑made questions aligned to your course. Filter by topic and difficulty, reorder or regenerate questions, and then assign online for instant results or print for pencil‑and‑paper testing. Creating assessments specific for your classroom needs has never been simpler!
You also have the flexibility to build your own custom assessments from a bank of ready-made questions for your course.
Using the topic selector, simply choose the sections from the book you want to test, and the system will bring up related questions ready for you to use.
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You can also reorder or delete questions to change the flow of your assessment or regenerate questions for new variations that target the same skill set.
Every question includes detailed data, giving you clear insight into the skills it measures and how it connects to your learning goals.
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AMSCO has been a godsend to my students. It has made difficult information to learn much more accessible and digestible...my students were able to gain college credit at a high rate. I absolutely recommend textbooks by AMSCO as a valuable tool in the AP classroom."
Paula W.
CCSD/Advanced Technologies Academy
Las Vegas, Nevada
College Board Course Audit Approval Support
Perfection Learning is an OpenStax ally. We join OpenStax in the mission to improve access to affordable educational materials by providing additional resources for OpenStax books. OpenStax is committed to providing free, peer-reviewed textbook content and offering multiple options for instructors who need additional resources for their course.
List the College Board-approved OpenStax Principles of Macroeconomics resource with the AMSCO Macroeconomics AP coursebook on your course audit. The paired OpenStax text is:
- Available at no additional charge.
- Listed on the College Board example textbook list as “Principles of Macroeconomics, OpenStax.”
- Pre-approved for course audit submission.
The OpenStax Principles of Macroeconomics text has been aligned with the AMSCO coursebook including:
- A day-by-day pacing guide showing how the AMSCO and OpenStax resources work together for instruction.
- Page references to the exact locations in the OpenStax text where you can find additional content to enhance and deepen the AMSCO instruction.
- Point-of-use links in the AMSCO eBook and interactive editions to the OpenStax aligned content.
New Features
Think as an EconomistTopic activities focus on skills—principles and models, interpretation, manipulation, and graphing and visuals. |
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Economic PerspectivesUnit activities explore the diverse views of macroeconomists. |
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Graphing FunctionalityInteractive editions include graphing features for students to demonstrate all three subcategories for Skill Category 4. This includes drawing, labeling, manipulating, and showing change on a graph. |
Accessibility—Reach All AP Students
- Comprehend key ideas.
- Learn and use concept vocabulary.
- Build their analytical and writing skills.

The AP Macroeconomics coursebook is built to meet the specific Learning Objectives and Essential Knowledge for each unit. As a result, the depth and breadth of content coverage align precisely with the AP Macroeconomics framework and exam.
AMSCO curriculum builds capacity, without sacrificing rigor, and supports students to develop the content knowledge and skills they need to be successful.
- Initial inquiry and essay tasks are designed to be narrow in scope, allowing students to master smaller skills first.
- Instruction and tasks to develop disciplinary practices and reasoning skills move from simple to complex as students gain competence.
Digital editions with built-in Immersive Reader support enable students to use a wealth of personalized tools to comprehend course content.
- Translate and listen to the text in over 120 languages.
- Customize readability by changing font type, size, and background color.

Help students move from skimming and scanning to extracting key concepts, identifying events and developments, and formulating questions for further study. All highlights and notes are captured automatically in a running notebook—perfect for study and exam preparation.

Develop College Readiness Skills
Students gain the critical “thinking” and “doing” skills required in rigorous college courses through extended practice in:
- Analyzing sources.
- Citing textual evidence to support arguments.
- Developing cohesive written arguments.
Engage students through collaboration.
- Participate in dynamic, inclusive small group discussions.
- Share ideas and perspectives based on meaningful, text-based questions.
Through Think As an Economist activities, students focus on a specific skill that real economists use, such as creating accurate graphs or describing economic concepts.

Each unit includes an Economics Perspectives feature that explores a macroeconomics issue and the differing viewpoints that surround it.

Because the content in the AMSCO books is more accessible, concise, and focused just on what they need to know, students are actually reading the text. As a result, I've seen test scores go up”.
Mark G.
Social Studies Department Chair
Bradenton, Florida
Extensive Teacher Support
Teacher materials include:
- A Teacher Resource with Answer Key. Best-choice answers are identified for each multiple-choice question. Rubrics and suggested good responses are provided for all free-response questions.
- Customizable PowerPoint slides.
- A day-by-day pacing guide.
- Two full-length practice tests with rationales.
- A correlation of each question to the College Board framework.
- OER resources by topic.
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