AP Calc BC

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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Hi,

I am having difficulty in AP Calc BC. My teacher moves very fast and doesn’t scale any of the tests. Our tests are past AP multiple choice tests, 10 questions, and 2 or 3 wrong is easily a bad grade and no partial credit. Are teachers supposed to scale these AP question tests? Especially in the beginning of the year?

I know calculus may be easy for most of you, but I just need some insight on how to do better in this class. I get the material, my teacher is just really hard and scary :frowning: I get nervous on tests and quizzes and am doing poorly right now.

Thanks in advance

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I would go look up past multiple choice tests before the teacher administers the test. You might get lucky and find the one she gives you.

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Thanks so much. I did that for the last test. Are they typically scaled in most schools??

Any other tips to do better would be helpful.

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I’m taking BC right now and our teacher makes her own tests based on the homework we’ve been doing, so yeah. lol. it’s not TOO hard for me because of that.

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Almost every single test is curved in my AP Calc AB class, and the test rarely has AP problems.

But the tests aren’t curved in AP Physics 2, even though they are mostly AP problems, but there’s partial credit.

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Do you think it’s unfair that this teacher is giving us AP tests and not scaling them? People are getting 40s (not me) and we only have 2 tests a term. I want to go to my guidance counselor. Thanks for your input

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Within the administrative confines of the school, the teacher can structure the class as s/he wishes and greade tests accordingly.

No one ever said life was fair.

To say what?? Unless there’s another section for you to switch into, there’s nothing you can say that won’t come across as whining.

Get extra help from the teacher. Use resources from the internet. FWIW, college professors do not spoon feed their students, so if nothing else, this gives you a peek to the future.

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If all else fails, just try to search for the MC questions on the tests he/she has. There’s a collection of past AP multiple choice from 1969 to 1998 (1969, 1973, 1985, 1988, 1993, 1997, 1998) through google search

There could also be questions from review books. Your teacher might have one on his/her desk or bookshelf that questions are pulled from.