AP Calc BC 2011: What did everyone think?

<p>I’m really bothered that I looked at examples at the majority of the frqs the night before, and I completely forgot on the test. I did terribly on most of the frqs, leaving most unfinished. Severely disappointed with myself. I hope my seemingly great performance on the MP salvages for a 4.</p>

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<p>121 is cool, but -121 is the coolest.</p>

<p>ok what question are you all referring to (I must’ve gotten it wrong)</p>

<p>The one everyone is complaining about. Don’t worry about it, all will be revealed after the embargo lifts in ~36 hours.</p>

<p>me too :/. 121 is not my favorite number.</p>

<p>I personally didn’t find the non-calculator MCs easy because I didn’t really understand convergence tests very well, and they came up a LOT on this test :confused: Just my luck. But the calculator MCs were definitely a joke, as well as the calculator FRQs. Then for the non-calculator FRQs, I think I struggled the most with #5 (I’m not sure why but I had a brain fart and blanked out on it). </p>

<p>I also realized that I messed up on part B of FRQ #2 (the tea and biscuits one). I did a Riemann sum instead of a trapezoidal sum because I somehow got them both confused >.< Great. Hopefully the graders won’t be too harsh on me for that one…</p>

<p>I was little taken by surprise that part A of Section II has only 2 questions with half an hour~~ Q2 didn’t finish because time was up and the calculation couldn’t be done without a calculator oh well
not gonna think about it anymore focus on others</p>

<p>I took form B test and frq #2 and #6 were HELL.</p>

<p>-121 was the answer to part c of number 6 and the coeffcient in front of p6(x) in the taylor they asked in part b</p>

<p>Yeah, you weren’t actually supposed to say it was the answer. Embargo’s still in effect.</p>

<p>Gag rule is the more correct way to say it.</p>

<p>IM SO MAD ALL I HAD TO DO WAS IMPLICIT DIFFERENTIATION ON #5! I’m so accustomed to converting everything to “normal” format like:</p>

<p>y = M/(1+Ae^(-rt))</p>

<p>I’m ashamed of how poorly I thought about and answered 6c.</p>

<p>hm I didn’t implicitly differentiate 5.</p>

<p>I did separation of variables for 5. Also when I got the second derivative as a function of the first derivative.</p>

<p>If they ask for a certian number of terms of a series you give that many terms. If they ask for the nth degree taylor polynomial, you give as many terms as it takes to get to f^(n) (x).</p>

<p>Argh, I just realized I made a reaaaaalllly stupid mistake in number 4. I got an explanation right and even though the hint was in the explanation, I ignored it and did something really stupid and made it uneccessarily harder than it needed to be!! That’s one or two points down the drain…it always happens. Sorry, I had to let it out.</p>

<p>Favorite numbers? Mine’s the same as everyone else’s and it’s certainly not -1, like someone else I know claimed.</p>

<p>“I am Error” - Error, Legend of Zelda: The Adventure of Link</p>

<p>I do not personally know Error, so there is no way for me to do this.</p>

<p>It was -121, not 121.</p>

<p>Oh yeah I think I messed up on that one because I ended up with two x^6 terms and I was having trouble combining them with the factorial denominators :/</p>

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<p>In which case you would just plug the first derivative back in, right? None of my friends realized you had to use implicit differentiation on that problem. To be honest, I didn’t realize it until I had finished the problem the first time around. Thank god I noticed and corrected myself.</p>

<p>I thought MC were pretty easy.
FRQ were easy until… they weren’t. Gah. I hate series so much!</p>

<p>Form 4HBP: <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;
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<p>I’ll post my Form 4HBP solutions tonight. I made a couple silly mistakes on them, but having fixed those mentally, I’m almost positive I have the right answers.</p>