<p>Lol yeah…even if you get an average of 3 points for free response (which honestly is a sucky score i’m sure you did better), you could get a 5 if you got 40/45 on the MC. This is cutting it really close though, and it depends on the curve…can anyone answer my question about curves form the past year?</p>
<p>haha idk I guess I didn’t see a wholeee lot of past FRQ’s but I guess I just wasn’t exposed to ones of that caliber too often
I mean yeah…I know I knew more than I thought walking out LOL
and I knew how to do almost all of a couple of them…but there were also a couple of them I feel like I struggled to even accumulate like 3-4 points on hahaha
but I guess I’m exaggerating haha
I did think it was hard…not outrageous :D</p>
<p>yes hahaha I did just realize that an average of 3 out of 9 points is pretty sucky lmao
probably more of like 4-5 average per question
I know I got like almost all of one of them and a good bit of another
like 8/9 and like 7/9 and as for the others…probably like 4 points each, maybe 3 on one or two haha
I think I’m being pretty critical of myself lol
I’m feeling better and better about it now though haha</p>
<p>@MagicMonkey511: The problem is that you don’t actually know the raw number data for the people that scored a 5 on the exam. So, for instance, in a year where 21% of the AB students made a 5, the cut score for the exam might be at 64 points, whereas on a year where 19% of the AB students made a 5, the cut score might be at the same place… or two points lower… or two points higher.</p>
<p>Also, the use of z-scores would suggest that the distribution of scores is approximately normal, something that I’m actually fairly certain doesn’t exist. For instance, I would venture that a significant percentage of the 1’s population doesn’t even break single digits for whatever reason, and probably more so than the number of 1’s hanging out in the teens for the raw score.</p>
<p>so are we allowed to discuss FRQ specifics now? anyone remember any details?</p>
<p>it’s released. </p>
<p><a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;
<p>what about BC?</p>
<p>Um, yeah. Check their website. <a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;
<p>I’m dying to know what I got on this. I know I had to have scored at least a 4, but a 5 would be awesome! :)</p>
<p>just called in and found out scores: 5 on AB and 5 on BC! How’d everyone else do?</p>
<p>^^^^^same.</p>
<p>I also got a 5 on my AB exam…I honestly thought I did worse than that. Maybe the curve this year was generous?</p>
<p>Heh… I got a 3bc/3sub. Pretty much what I was expecting (Although I thought I would get a 4 on the Subscore, I only had trouble on BC stuff). I didn’t study a ton, and I also didn’t even take an actual AP class, just one semester of Honors Calculus close to the equivalent of Calculus AB. (School doesn’t offer AP classes) It was also my first AP test.</p>
<p>I don’t think the three will really hurt me, as I don’t have to report it and I didn’t even take an AP class or Calculus BC.</p>
<p>How has the Calculus AB curve seemed to all of you so far? I’m afraid I’m going to be one of the few waiting for scores in the mail and I’m fearful of my score. The FRQ killed me. o.O</p>
<p>Does anyone know what AB and BC stand for?</p>
<p>^They don’t stand for anything. They’re used for a variety of AP courses (comp sci, calc, physics) to represent their difficulty. A means pre-college, B means first semester in college, C means second semester, roughly. So AB would be a semester course and BC would be a full year course.</p>
<p>I was at a conference recently, and they announced that the average score on the AB test for the free response was approximately 18/54. So the curve very well might have been generous this year.</p>
<p>Nothing unusual was reported about the BC scores, so the curve was probably fairly standard there.</p>
<p>@Nerdlings: Originally, the A stood for precalculus topics (including limits), the B stood for topics related to differential calculus, and the C stood for topics related to integral calculus. Over time, those definitions have clearly shifted. :)</p>
<p>Oh, so it’s not bad choice! Thanks for explaining. :D</p>
<p>The curve seems at least as generous if not more so than in past years. Everyone in my class I’ve talked to so far has gotten a 5 which is on par with the typical 100% 5 rate my teacher usually gets. And frankly I feel, as the best student in my class (which was already pretty damn advanced), that the FRQs were more challenging than the ones we practiced on in class.</p>
<p>Even with a generous curve, there’s still a chance that I might’ve failed the exam. The MC’s weren’t too easy, but I felt fine about them. I felt like I got about half of the FRQ points.</p>