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Most points lost on AP Economics FRQs are graph points: the right idea, the wrong curve. Each question below gives you an FRQ-style scenario and a live graph. Shift what should shift, leave the rest alone, and the checker tells you exactly which curves you got right. No AI, no sign-up, just the geometry of the model.
New to a scenario? Watch it first in the guided graph walkthroughs, then come back and draw it yourself.
Incomes and Restaurant Meals
Supply and DemandAssume the market for restaurant meals in the country of Beloria is initially in equilibrium. Household incomes in Beloria rise, and restaurant meals are a normal good. Show the effect of this change on the market for restaurant meals, assuming all else is held constant. Show the effect on the graph below.
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Equilibrium at Quantity 57, Price ($) 44
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Every scenario, by graph
111 FRQ-style prompts across 7 AP Economics graphs. Each has its own page with the live graph, the worked answer, and the mistake students make on it.
Supply and Demand (20)
- Incomes and Restaurant Meals
- Health Study on Soda
- Solar Panel Breakthrough
- Wheat Price Shock
- Coffee and Tea
- Excise Tax on Cigarettes
- Subsidy to Corn Growers
- Console Price and Games
- Recession and Instant Noodles
- New Food Trucks Enter
- Waiting for Cheaper Heat
- Copper in the Warehouse
- New Campus in Town
- Streaming Gets Cheaper
- Cotton Tempts the Farmers
- Cheap Jet Fuel
- Tax Cut and Battery Costs
- Gravel Lawns and Steel Prices
- Housing Grants and Wildfires
- Fuel Prices Meet Automation
AD-AS Model (20)
- Expansionary Fiscal Policy
- Consumer Confidence Shock
- Oil Price Shock
- Cheaper Inputs
- Long-Run Growth
- Stock Market Boom
- Household Income Tax Cut
- Austerity Spending Cut
- Economy-Wide Wage Hike
- Immigration and Capacity
- Earthquake Destroys Capital
- Recession Among Trading Partners
- Central Bank Tightening
- Costly Rules Repealed
- Freight Rail Strike
- Factory Construction Boom
- Tax Cut and Cheap Inputs
- Austerity and Wage Hike
- Spending Program and Oil Shock
- Export Slump and Deregulation
Money Market (15)
- Central Bank Bond Purchase
- Reserve Requirement Change
- Nominal GDP and Transactions
- Discount Rate Cut
- Falling Price Level
- Rise of Digital Payments
- Central Bank Bond Sale
- Lower Reserve Ratio
- Banks Hoard Reserves
- Merchants Stop Taking Cards
- Flight to Liquidity
- Recession and Cash Balances
- Boom Meets Bond Buying
- Deflation and Cautious Banks
- Payment Outage, Tighter Rules
Loanable Funds Market (15)
- Financing the Deficit
- Household Saving Behavior
- Investment Tax Credit
- Wave of Business Optimism
- Retiring National Debt
- Foreign Capital Inflow
- Idle Factory Capacity
- Robotics Productivity Leap
- An Aging Population
- Tax Break for Savers
- Savings Head Overseas
- Corporate Profits Tax Hike
- Deficit Meets Retirement Wave
- Export Boom and Safe Haven
- Idle Plants, Forced Saving
Foreign Exchange Market (USD) (15)
- Interest Rate Differential
- Appetite for Imports
- Recession Abroad
- Tourism Boom to the US
- Americans Vacation Abroad
- US Central Bank Rate Cut
- Tariff on Imported Goods
- Recession at Home
- Retreat From Foreign Bonds
- Rising Remittances Home
- Foreign Automaker Builds Plant
- Foreign Tariff on US Goods
- Export Boom, Import Slump
- Export Slump, Bonds Abroad
- Treasury Inflow, Import Surge
Labor Market (15)
- Apple Harvest Wages
- Frostvale Immigration Reform
- Coal Country Wages
- Warehouse Automation Tools
- Rival Industry Pay Surge
- Fading Fashion Demand
- Childcare and Factory Jobs
- Machinists Reach Retirement
- Self-Checkout Kiosks
- New Hospitals Open
- Mine Hazard Report
- Auto Plant Closes
- Grape Price and Visa Rule
- Room Rates and Licensing Repeal
- New Jigs, New Housing
Common questions
- How does the graph grading work?
- The checker compares every curve's position before and after your answer. You are marked correct only when each curve the scenario calls for has shifted in the right direction and every other curve stays put, which is exactly how AP readers score a drawn graph: the right shift, and nothing extra.
- Which AP Economics graphs can I practice shifting?
- Seven graphs that carry most drawn-graph FRQ points: supply and demand, AD-AS, the money market, the loanable funds market, the Phillips curve, the foreign exchange market, and the labor market. Each scenario uses the same interactive engine as the EconLearn graph sandbox.
- Is this like the real AP exam FRQs?
- The prompts follow the FRQ register: a short scenario about an economic event, then you show its effect on the correct graph. On the real exam you draw by hand, so after practicing here, sketch the same answer on paper with full labels to build the exam-day habit.
What students get wrong, by graph
Every scenario here documents the specific error students make on it. Those are collected per diagram, so you can read the whole failure pattern for one graph before you draw it.
Want to write full responses too? The FRQ practice set has complete prompts with rubrics, and the graph sandbox lets you explore every model freely.