<p>Had anyone actually passed their AP calc exam? At my school it's pretty non existent. The pass rate last year was 1. </p>
<p>Has*</p>
<p>The pass rate all depends on how good the teacher is, and if they teach the test. Some teachers are very good, and teach the AP test well. At my school with an average teacher, at least 4 or 5 people get at least a 4 on the test. There have even been a few 5s (This is at an above-average public school). AP Calc is not the hardest AP exam, most think it is AP Chemistry.</p>
<p>Kids do well here. Lots of 4s and 5s. Big public school, but only two sections of BC.</p>
<p>For ab it’s like 60% at our school
For bc it’s over 90%</p>
<p>Or maybe you haven’t asked the right people.</p>
<p>Most AP Calc students at my school skip the exam altogether because the teacher doesn’t prepare us at all. I took the AP Exam, but I had to do a lot of extra work outside of class, particularly for the free response section (practicing for multiple choice wasn’t bad, it was similar to the types of questions we had in class. But we had not done a single free-response style questions the entire year). I ended up with a 4. I know two others that took it last year got a 5, but they are both like math savants, so that wasn’t a surprise. I believe the other 3 students failed the exam. And the majority of the 20-some other students that skipped the exam would have failed as well. </p>
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So everyone passed?</p>
<p>@halcyonheather not quite… It was a class of about 23… one 5 and the rest ones. </p>
<p>Our teacher sucks this is his 2nd year teaching upper level math</p>
<p>That means 22 people failed and one person passed. </p>
<p>1/23 = 4.35% of the class passed, while 95.65% of the class failed. </p>
<p>That’s pretty bad.</p>
<p>I don’t anticipating passing my AP Calc exam - while I’ve learned a lot, our teacher never really taught us how to do the type of math that appears on the exam quickly - his unit tests are all 10 or so problems which he gives us an hour to do… So while I excel at getting the right answer - I can only do it after I spend a solid amount of time working at the problem. I’m not terribly upset or anything - I loved the class and I do very well in it; I just won’t be getting credit. </p>
<p>I’m pretty sure we have 100%-90% pass rate for BC our AB though is really low lol.</p>
<p>Only one person has failed in the last fourteen years and that was the TA for BC.</p>
<p>@preamble1776
I envy you</p>
<p>One or two people get below a 3 every year. 40% or so get 5s.</p>
<p>For the last two months and for the month to come, literally all we’re doing are practice tests.</p>
<p>Most people in my school get 5s and say “Oh I had like 10 minutes left to just chill” but personally, I’d be lucky if I get a 4 because the last practice one I took I got a 3. o_o</p>
<p>Wow, only one person passed? That’s a bit extreme. What kind of school do you attend? Our AP pass rates are usually around 90%. And if you’re taking it this year, hopefully you’ll be the second to get a good score, haha. </p>
<p>I go to an average high school, there is only 2 Calc (AB) classes this year, and usually there is only one. Last year there was a 98% pass rate and over 80% of students got a 5. The teacher (who I have this year for Honors Pre Calculus) is a very tough teacher, very few people get an A in his class, but from what I have heard from people who have had him for Calculus is that he makes his tests and class so much harder than the AP Exam, that the AP Exam is a peace of cake in comparison. A family friend of mine got a D in his AP Calculus class, and got a 5 on the AP test. (The grade was bumped up to a C because of the 5 however) </p>
<p>But basically, its considered bad at our school if you don’t get a 5 on the AP exam, a disgrace if you get less than a 4, and my teacher said that he can count on one hand how many people have gotten a 2 on the AP Exam in his 11 years of teaching AP Caluclus. Nobody has ever gotten a 1.</p>
<p>You probably didn’t ask everyone. One person gets a 5 but EVERYONE else gets a 1? That’s a big difference!</p>