2018, Question 3 · 5 points
Comparative advantage and labor market rates
Use labor hours to work out which nation holds the comparative advantage for consumer goods, compute the unemployment rate and labor force participation rate from a table, and place a point on a PPC that matches the unemployment.
This exam had three free-response questions in a 60 minute section (a 10 minute reading period and 50 minutes of writing), worth 10, 5 and 5 points, with students told to spend about half the time on Question 1 and split the rest between Questions 2 and 3. The current exam has 3 free-response questions in 60 minutes. The skills these questions practice still count.
1 Read the question
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2 Write your answer
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3 Score it
Score your answer against College Board's scoring guidelines, one point at a time. Give yourself a point only when your answer says what the guideline asks for.
Scoring guidelines (PDF, page 5) What the exam readers saw (Chief Reader report)
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