If a country is facing rising unemployment, should the president ride out the trend or decrease income taxes? Scholars confront two competing policy recommendations and must decide what to do in a practice exam from College Board. Other practice sets examine the effects of selling government securities on the economy and how different countries' interest rates affect each other. 

Concepts

supply and demand, taxes, macroeconomics, test preparation, government bonds, interest rates

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Use questions as a model to set up group discussions on unemployment policies
• Offer all or part of the assessment as practice for the AP exam

Classroom Considerations

• Includes the free-response questions from part B of the 2009 AP® Macroeconomics exam
  

Pros

• Materials are easy to adapt to a variety of lessons
• Samples and answer keys make student feedback simple

Cons

• None

Common Core

RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.3 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.3 RH.11-12.10