<p>H. Pre calc was alright</p>
<p>i think you’ll do fine in calculus then</p>
<p>What kind of things will remain consistent?</p>
<p>How much time are you dedicating to the review? Also, do you feel ready? The test is on May 8th. )’:</p>
<p>Well I signed up to take the class next year</p>
<p>I know I haven’t really kept up with this thread. The May 8th date is scary, and honestly, I haven’t really been studying. I’m planning to cram as much as I can these next few weeks. For Cal and Bio. I’m not really worried about anything else. Surprisingly, I’ve had senioritis to the max these last few months (6 months) lol</p>
<p>Is it true that they’re reducing the free response question with allowed calculator use from 3 to 2 this year ? That would make 4 out of the total 6 questions without calculator usage.</p>
<p>I think I heard something about that as well. Anyone else know anything about this change?</p>
<p>Yeah, the calculator portion of the free response will now have only 2 questions. The non-calculator portion will have 4 to make the total 6 as usual.</p>
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<p>I’m trying to do two hours on weekdays and six hours Saturday and Sunday. It’s just so hard to keep my schedule with my piles of schoolwork.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t know where to start. When I look at a free response question, my mind totally blanks out.</p>
<p>^Same. On my first practice test, I got a whopping total of 17 points out of 54.</p>
<p>There are about 13 days until the test, and I really want to pull a 5.</p>
<p>wow you guys must have REALLY, REALLY bad teachers. My teacher has a 95% 5 rate, the other 5% gets 4s. Nobody in my teacher’s class has ever gotten anything lower than 4.</p>
<p>Sillyup, I would literally want to go to your school just for that teacher. My calculus teacher is nice and all but she is bad at preparing us for the exam</p>
<p>Hey guys, are trig identities on the exam? half angles, double angles, etc?</p>
<p>^ I am memorizing the half angles, as well as the common trig identities and values.</p>
<p>Does anybody know if, for the FRQ, if you have to round limits of integration to 3 or 5 places? Because the instruction booklet says you should round to three places, but I always see five places in the answer key (see question 1a here: <a href=“https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/secure/ap/pdf/calculus-ab/ap-2006-calculus-ab-scoring-guidelines.pdf?__gda__=1367028276_7801b151b0dad40a9002f04d0787d1dc[/url]”>https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/secure/ap/pdf/calculus-ab/ap-2006-calculus-ab-scoring-guidelines.pdf?__gda__=1367028276_7801b151b0dad40a9002f04d0787d1dc</a>)</p>
<p>My Calculus teacher is a very very lovely teacher. But yes, she is a terrible AP exam prep teacher…I’m scared. Less than 2 weeks, and I honestly need to pull off a 5.</p>
<p>How can I efficiently review Calculus?</p>
<p>To answer the questions on pg15:</p>
<p>@collegedreams29: I didn’t take the AB exam (skipped directly to BC) but from my experience half angle and double angle identities are vital to integrating functions like sin^2(x). They make the integration much, much easier.
They’re not completely necessary for the AP, though. You probably won’t see it on any FRQs, and if it’s on a MC it won’t be more than 1-2.</p>
<p>Trig identities you definitely should know though for trigonometric substitution during integration.</p>
<p>@risubu: As long as the final answer is rounded to at least 3 decimal places (eg. 24.593) it will be accepted. You should also have at least 3 decimal places for every number in all your work (unless of course it doesn’t have 3 decimal places). When I took the BC exam I wrote it out to 5 just to be safe though.</p>
<p>@Nguyenner: Take a practice/released exam and identify which topics you need to work on. Grab a prep book and start reviewing with the biggest topics first, then work your way down to the more detailed/specific topics. Rinse and repeat.
Do the same with the FRQs.
Really, the only way to do well in calculus is to practice over and over. So make your mistakes now so you don’t make the same ones on the AP.
If you’re not sure how to approach the FRQs, then I suggest struggling through a few first and then looking at the sample student responses and scoring guidelines afterwards. Work from there.</p>