<p>Well, I know my test will probably be different from most of your tests, but thank goodness it's over!</p>
<p>For me, the MC was harder than the FRQ which I thought wasn't that hard even though I hardly studied sequence/series until this week (I took the course and the AB exam last year -- a decision I regret). But anyhow, it wasn't bad at all. Much easier than some of Barron's questions. LOL.</p>
<p>Good luck to all those who have yet to take it!!</p>
<p>what did it have on it? like, any hard FRQs? Lagrange? tough Mc's?</p>
<p>Yeah, I finished my Cal BC exam!</p>
<p>For the MC section, I didn't find the first section to be quite difficult although I left four questions blank. I knew how to do them, but things just didn't click when I was tired. Moving to the next section, just scamming through, I was like" Oh my god, all these symbols, how, what, damn, I am doomed." In the end, I just left one blank. I guessed on some of them. </p>
<p>As for the Free Response section, I don't think I did well enough as I expected myself to be. At first, I tried to use pen then I had to scratch out the mistakes. So I was like "Screw it, I am using pencil." I don't know if that will affect my grade or not. I knew how to do most of the free response, except two or three parts. One thing I learned from taking practice exam was that they give us some of the answer already, all you need to do is plug in. Also, when I came down to the 5th question, my mind broke down. I forgot how to do Riemnan Sum. Damn, so tired. </p>
<p>From today's performance, I expect myself to get a 4 or possibly 3 if I had half of my answers wrong on the Free Response.</p>
<p>Yeah I just finished taking mine like a couple hours ago. Does anyone know about how much we have to get right for a 5? based on previous years' curves... a rough percentage of questions answered correctly?</p>
<p>Official AP Calculus BC chatroom:</p>
<p>APCalcBC</p>
<p>I did quite okay for mc part.
Fill in all the answer with 4-5 gussing - after eliminate some choices.</p>
<p>FR part is not really too hard.
However, I know I have some careless mistake at the first and may causes the answer wrong....</p>
<p>It expect either 3 or 4</p>
<p>I thought this test went very very well. I really feel extremely strongly about it, and I hope I made a 5.</p>
<p>68 out of 108 will get you a 5. 39 will get you a 3, that's about all I know. Subject to grade setting of course.</p>
<p>I think the minimum for a 5 is usually around 65 out of 108. So I would say that 60%-65% is usually the minimum for a 5.</p>
<p>I thought that the multiple choice was alright. Non-calc was sort of hard, but calculator was easy. Overall I ommitted a couple.</p>
<p>The free response had some easy questions, some hard questions. Overall it was okay.</p>
<p>Obviously the test was hard, it is designed so that there are questions that are VERY hard. That's why the curve is so good. Scores are all relative to the scale.</p>
<p>I skipped one question on the first mc section, was unsure of but answered anyways of one question on the second mc section.
I answered all fr qs and letters, I was unsure of only one letter out of all the sections, and even then I still think I got it right. So, even if you add in a bunch of careless errors, I still think I got a 5.</p>
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Obviously the test was hard, it is designed so that there are questions that are VERY hard. That's why the curve is so good. Scores are all relative to the scale.
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But still, 40 percent of BC test takers get a 5...</p>
<p>Because all smart people take it, does not mean that it is easy. Correlation does not imply causality!</p>
<p>Well, then I guess that implies the population of BC test takers is, on the average, smarter (or way more prepared) than the population of test takers for any other ap test.</p>
<p>citric acid, stats was yesterday, and yesterday i failed.</p>
<p>Today, however, im confident i got a 5.</p>
<p>99.99% confident, but that might come back to bite me in the ass.</p>
<p>about the rocket question. A was faster right?</p>
<p>oh, on the MC the one that was euler's was the answer 6? or 3?</p>
<p>It was tough but I didn't look at the BC topics until last night.</p>
<p>come chat apcalcbc on aim</p>
<p>Bill pike. same here!
Didn't look at sequence until 5:30 this morning.
I am in deep regret; math was meant to be my forte-
I deserve a 3 :(</p>
<p>As far as the test, I skipped 5 for MC section.
B-O-M-B-E-D the FRQs for exclusive calc BC part.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if colleges accept calc AB sub-score as calc AB score? or does it differ by colleges?
I'm positive I got a 5 on the AB part at least.</p>
<p>lol well thats good i guess.</p>
<p>CHAT!</p>
<p>Almost all colleges sonsider the AB subscore to be the same as an AB score.</p>