<p>Thoughts?
How do you think the curve will be?</p>
<p>I thought the multiple choice was super easy but the free response was kind of hard...</p>
<p>Seems to be the general consensus from everyone that I’ve asked, including myself. </p>
<p>Be prepared to get flamed for thinking it was hard, though; you’re on CC, after all…</p>
<p>It still baffles me the way collegeboard sets up this test. We get 50 minutes for 17 calculator questions and only 55 minutes for a much more challenging 28 non-calc questions. I thought the first 28 were just ok–I felt super rushed. </p>
<p>For the free response, the calculator ones were fine. The noncalc ones were pretty challenging, however.</p>
<p>There’s more discussion about the AP Calculus AB 2011 exam in this thread:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/mathematics-computer-science/1140476-official-ap-calculus-ab-2011-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/mathematics-computer-science/1140476-official-ap-calculus-ab-2011-thread.html</a></p>
<p>I felt that the MC was pretty average; I answered many of the questions with confidence, but there were about 5-7 questions which I had to logically guess on. I wouldn’t say it was ridiculously easy, but I was familiar with mostly all the topics covered in the MC portion.</p>
<p>The FRQ’s were relatively difficult. The calculator portion wasn’t too bad, and I think I may have achieved near-perfect scores on them; however, the non-calculator portion was where I struggled the most. The question involving a tea pot was more than alright, as was the one dealing with the area of a region. The landfill question and the last one were pretty difficult for me! I could only answer a few parts, and I don’t see myself scoring above a 5 or a 6 on those two.</p>
<p>Overall, I most likely scored a mid 4 to a very low 5.</p>
<p>oh god I feel exactly the opposite.
I thought the non-calc MC was hard, calc MC was really easy (only two stumped me), and FR I think I got most of them generally correct (I probably made silly mistakes and/or misunderstood something)</p>
<p>I agree with the time set up making no sense. I had like 20 minutes left for the calc MC, but barely finished in the non-calc MC.</p>
<p>I’It will be embarrassing if I don’t get a 5… My teacher had everyone get a 5 last year except a single AB student who received a 4…</p>
<p>I feel the same way. </p>
<p>The non calculator MC questions were challenging, but I answered all of them except for two, which I guess on because there’s no guessing penalty anymore.</p>
<p>The calculator MC was easy, and I answered every question with confidence, I think I got 100% or near 100% on them. The timing is all wrong, I had an easy 20 - 25 minutes left after I did the calc MC and checked it over once to make sure my answers were right. The non-calc MC was rushed, and I had no free time at all.</p>
<p>The Calc FR were very easy, and I can see myself getting near-perfect on those two. </p>
<p>The non-calc FR was where it started to get challenging, I think I answered #3 right or mostly right, and #4 wasn’t very challenging either. I know I missed part c on #5, and part of b on #6, and the parts that I did answer I wasn’t very confident on. I probably did very bad on those two.</p>
<p>All in all, it wasn’t that bad, save for those two FR questions. I’d estimate a 4, possibly a 5 if the curve is generous.</p>
<p>Yea, this years exam was kind of screwy since it didn’t really follow the pattern of the previous exams. The pattern was usually that the non-calculator portion of the test is the easiest and the calculator portion of the test is harder. But this time the test felt like it was the other way around. Maybe because I was using the Ti-Nspire CAS which is pretty much a cheat code since I could set my integrals more quickly instead of having to use fint() in y= all the time. </p>
<p>It also sucks since there are more non-calculator free response and MC so more of the questions were harder. </p>
<p>Eventhough, I am still feeling a 5 lol XD</p>
<p>I felt the timing was really, really awkward.</p>
<p>Everyone from my school thought it was the easiest thing we ever took. But that might be because our teacher specifically looked for the hardest questions on the past tests to give us as tests and did not curve that in any way (eg a 22/28 in the MC 1 would be a 78%)</p>
<p>I was super time crunched on non-calculator MC.
And similarly for frq for non-calc, solely because number five
(The weird quasi-diff-eq problem)
And then there were some calc MC that I just had no idea…
But, we’ll see.
Anyone want to try to explain #5 to me?</p>
<p>Ps. Seeing as everyone in the world thought it was kind of challenging
(sans the lovely person above me)
I’m hoping for a pleasant curve.</p>
<p>I thought most of the MC wasn’t too bad, but there were I few I had no idea on for each section. For the FRQ, there’s 2 where I think I only got half the points, and the rest I think I got them pretty well, so I should be getting a 4 if not a 5. I got a 5 on the practice AP test we used for our semester final exam in class- based on that final, our teacher gave us predicted AP scores. I hope she’s right, cause I would love to see a 5 on it!</p>
<p>@EmPaige21
On #5a you had to find an equation of a line that is tangent to the graph at t=0 and then put t=1/4 in for the found equation and solve for W. To get the equation you have to find the slope so just put t=0 into the given derivative and then use the point give (0,1400) to create the equation and then just put 1/4 into t.</p>
<p>5b. You first had to find the second derivative.
dW/dt= 1/25W-12
d2W/dt2= 1/25(dW/dt)
d2W/dt2=1/25(1/25W-12), Turns out to be underestimate</p>
<p>Anyone take Calc AB for late testing? I self-studied and thought the test was super hard. Never took any practice tests so I didn’t really know what to expect. Doing calculus from a table was also a new experience. I am trying to get AP National Scholar Award so I need a 4.</p>