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Although it is possible you are passionate about a subject you are bad at, the bottom line is, top universities have a lot of students to choose from. They don't need to choose you if you are passionate about economics but bad at it. They will alternatively pick the student who is passionate about economics and good at it. So the obvious piece of advice here is to try as hard as you can to get good grades in all the exams you take.

The exception to the quality first then quantity rule is the law of diminishing returns. There is a big difference between getting a 5 in AP BC Calculus and getting 100% and every question right. In this case, there is literally no university admissions benefit at all and getting a single point right above and beyond the threshold required to get a 5 in the AP. It would actually be extremely difficult to get the whole exam right. As a result, you should almost never be studying so much that you are seriously aiming for 100%. The effort required to go from 95% to 100% in most exams is more effort than the effort required to go from 0 to 90%. This effort is not worth it. Use it to take more subjects!