<p>Now I don't know about you, but as I am preparing for my AP Calculus Exam right now, I noticed that a lot of questions in the past exams (FRQ) are really poorly worded. Some of them are really difficult to decipher.</p>
<p>I am just wondering am I the only one?</p>
<p>DId anyone notice that some of the questions on the Princeton Review has some pre-calc questions?</p>
<p>They’re worded so that you have to think of how to take the situation presented in the problem and put it in terms of a concept you’ve learned. So yes, they are worded in a tricky way. I haven’t noticed any Precalc in PR though.</p>
<p>When I took the first practice exam for Calc AB in PR, there was no precalc, but there were topics that weren’t suppose to be on the actual exam. </p>
<p>The wording of the FRQ can be sometimes confusing, but you’ll get use to it after a few more practices.</p>
<p>It’s good to look at all of the FRQs from the past and look at how they are scored. There are certain problems that come up every year, so looking at how they are worded and scored each year will give you a big advantage when you take the exam and a similar question is on the exam.</p>
<p>yes you’re probably stupid</p>
<p>wheatbread//don’t say that
lemone//CB’s problems are worded so that some actually fall into the trap, or some don’t know how to solve the problem… reminds me of Joe Bloggs situation that TPR described. But only with practice you will triumph in the end 
don’t worry!</p>
<p>Yes I agree with everyone except wheatbread :P</p>
<p>A lot of CB materials requires dedicated practice, not much out of the box thinking. You aren’t asked to prove anything or extrapolate anything difficult. Just find the technique, the pattern of the wording, and use the skills you learned to plug-and-chug really.</p>
<p>@lemone: yeah, there are pre-calc questions on PR AND the real ap’s. Maybe one and only one question will show up on the real deal. It’s usually trig though: something like “find the period of this sin/cos function” or “which is the correct graph for this trig function”. College Board assumes that if you’re taking calculus then you should know your trig/algebra pretty well.</p>
<p>xxsteelxx//CB does not test behavior of trig graphs in Calculus. That is only for Math IIC. CB, however, will test you on multiplicity on problems regarding relative min/max or points of inflection.</p>
<p>i did one problem from an old exam in which the question was asking “which of the following graphs represent this <em>function</em>”. And it was trig function, with trig graphs. But like I said before, only ONE question of this type shows up. No big deal, you can skip it and still get a five on the ap exam. :)</p>
<p>Depending on the age of the exam, the format of the AP’s has changed slightly over the years. If memory serves, I remember questions like that occurring more in the late 80’s - early 90’s more so than in the modern era, but I could be misremembering.</p>