2011, Form B, Question 2 · 6 points
College education as a positive externality
Graph the education market with a gap between private and social benefit, mark the efficient quantity and shade the deadweight loss. Add a binding price ceiling and say how it changes the loss, then predict the effect of a per-unit subsidy on quantity.
This exam had three free-response questions with 10 minutes of planning and 50 minutes of writing, and the directions suggested spending about half the time on Question 1 and splitting the rest evenly 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
The question is College Board's, from the 2011, Form B exam. It starts on page 3 of the PDF. College Board no longer posts this exam, so it opens from the copy of College Board's PDF that the Internet Archive saved on March 22, 2023.
2 Write your answer
Answer each part the way you would on the exam, in full sentences, with your work shown. Your writing saves as you type.
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 3)
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