<p>hehe, no I completely agree with you! I really, really, really want there to be a good curve; I, quite frankly, will take all the help I can get when it comes to these tests.</p>
<p>I just wanted to say that the multiple choice, though appearing easy, was actually quite difficult because of numerous little traps. The calculator multiple choice was littered with them. I finished the calc mc in 17 minutes, fortunately I went back and changed 5 or so answers because of little traps.</p>
<p>I thought that the free-response was also quite difficult. It made me feel worse though when two kids after the test and I were talking and they were saying how they must have gotten literally a 9/9 for every problem (both kids scored a 2320 and a 2240 respectively on the SAT). I hope to get at least a 4 because the curve is pretty good, but because of those free-response, I'm not really sure.</p>
<p>I thought it was pretty difficult, good amount of traps and some stuff that came out of nowhere.</p>
<p>well now i'm nervous about the mc which i thought was easy before. .......traps. i knew it was too easy! there had to be traps! ahhh.</p>
<p>......traps? :S</p>
<p>yeah i knew the mc was too easy to be on the same exam as those frq.</p>
<p>I feel like I did very well on the multiple choice. I answered all of the free response parts, but I know for a fact that I messed up some stupid things (signs and limits). What do you think I would get if i average say 6.5/9 and answered about 75-80% of the mc right? </p>
<p>I get 5s on all the practice exams..i'm realllyyyyyy hoping for a 5.</p>
<p>wow now i'm paranoid about traps. cuz i thought frq was not too bad...mc not so much.</p>
<p>i kept seeing everything going marching off to infinity when i'm not so sure they were....lol.</p>
<p>do we get our green inserts back anytime before we get scores?</p>
<p>Seriously, the MC was literally dipped in a bucket full of traps, both the calc and nc. I can't believe how many questions I had to change because of the specific wording and misinterpretation. </p>
<p>I thought the FRQ's were easy! I've talked to many of my friends and they all said it was really easy. I had so much time left I thought I skipped something, so I double checked everything. But then again, in our school, we have an insane teacher that trained us to be machines, giving us only 1 hour to do the 6 FRQs during many many practices. FYI, statiscally, my math teacher has a no fail policy, and last year 55 out of her 60 students got 5s.</p>
<p>there werent that many traps in my opinion. Just a couple here and there that had weird wording or small extra steps to finish them.<br>
hopefully a 5...but by the time these scores come back i wont even care anymore</p>
<p>I actually thought the MCQ non-calc got insane for the last 2 problems (The table of velocity and river ones). I had 20 min left when I got to those 2 and used 10 min just trying to hammer them out. The rest had a few tricks thrown in but were all very doable. No integration by parts but I did get to use Le Hospital's rule :) I also love my TI-89 Titanium now because it proved an excellent tool.</p>
<p>The FRQ wasn't so much hard as it was logic-intensive. The oil problem really was fun ;). Imagine how hard it could have been if you had to think of everything the original question asks and then also get "and the pipe is being repaired simultaneously so it drips less volume every minute". The only FRQ that I was stumped on was 5 c) where I kept getting something "wrong" only to realize that I was thinking of the wrong set of rules. ARGGGGHHH when I realized my logic was wrong but my steps were right. Oh well, I get every point except right answer....hell if I woulda done one more step I woulda gotten all the points.</p>
<p>I hate "explaining or justifying". MY WORK IS MY EXPLANATION!!!! I feel sorry for the people that will have to read my explanations :) I think at one point I cited the 1st derivative test and the intermediate value theorem.</p>
<p>So, I'm exhausted (even after drinking a VitaminWater Energy during and before the test), but I probably got a 5.</p>
<p>Oh, IMO, there weren't any "tricky tricks". The only ones that were there (very few) were only designed to trip up n00bs.</p>
<p>Oh quick question. Is there any difference in difficulty between 4EBP-R and 4EBP-Q cause I had -R.</p>
<p>All of this talk about traps.....well I was pretty careful (like on graph problems, if it said where is f increasing I would draw an arrow from f' and write "where is f'>0?"). Now how does someone survive the next two months of anticipation?</p>
<p>Oh and what the hell was up with that "is the velocity increasing". I had no clue as to whether they were asking "slope" or "physically". I figured physically since they also gave the 2nd derivative (implying acceleration) and CB rarely gives useless info for a question.</p>
<p>^ Actually CB gives a lot of useless info. Like they would give derivatives at a bunch of a points but you would only need one of them. Come to think of it, I do remember seeing a lot of answers that didn't use the chain rule, a negative sign that separated right from wrong, etc.</p>
<p>there is no difference between them, the questions are in a different order</p>
<p>@2 above me</p>
<p>That's not so much useless information as it is distracting information. I never saw on any released exam where they would say something not part of a set (distractor) where the problem could be done without it (useless).</p>
<p>Like in the velocity increasing problem i'm talking about, they wouldn't say "here's the second derivative...ignore me".</p>
<p>My AP Calc teacher said that they will almost never give anything useless on the FR section. "So it's like assembling something, you shouldn't have parts left over".</p>
<p>I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that the FRQ was unusually difficult.</p>
<p>^totally!</p>
<p>I was feeling okay about the test until I got to the last 2 FRQ's. Probably made a ton of dumb mistakes...</p>
<p>I think the problem is everyone is brain dead by the time they get around to the last 2 FRQ's. It is horrible that on the govt. exam we got a break after the 1st half which was 1 hour long but we had to go 2 hours on this one before a break.</p>