<p>What is the best AP Calc AB study guide? I am using Calculus: Graphical, Numerical, Algebraic, 3rd Edition by Ross L. Finney as the textbook for this course and I need a study guide now.</p>
<p>@Shinpachi: You have my sympathies regarding the textbook. I know students who took AP Calculus using the FDWK book, and all said that the weakest part of their class was the textbook. As for the study guide, have you looked at this thread?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/201793-consolidated-book-suggestions-ap.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/201793-consolidated-book-suggestions-ap.html</a>
Somewhere past post #1300 you’ll find a couple of suggestions. Take a look.</p>
<p>@Shinpachi - I have the same book and my Precal book was the same format. I hated that book, it does poorly on explanation.</p>
<p>In Florida I have Larson - Edwards “Calculus *AP Edition” in the 9th Edition. I think the problems are great and the explanations are easy to understand. I looked at practice books for AP AB Calculus and they didn’t seem to be very helpful, but I suppose that is just because this is a math class and I’m so used to getting study books for AP science and social studies.</p>
<p>Okay this sounds weird, but im in Basic Calc and my district is doing this AP thing so I’m able to take AP Calc AB starting October 17th. Is it really a hard class? Like I’ve never been strong in math so I’m kind of scared… Will I be able to handle it while I’m taking 4 other AP’s…</p>
<p>I am taking AB this year. I recently took a quiz on limits and got a 100. Tomorrow I have a test on limits and continuity. </p>
<p>How hard is the AB exam?</p>
<p>thanks for the advice. I do agree that the book is kind of bad. There are problems that are unsolvable with the knowledge up to a certain section. For example, there were questions that required the chain rule in 3.5, but chain rule wasn’t taught until 3.6. Calc AB isnt that bad. Just remember to not ignore the theorems that look useless… @WannaBeDocc</p>
<p>I am in a Calc AB class. My teacher sucks. I got a D on my limits quiz but a 98 on my first test. I’m usually stellar at math so imma study for BC independently. I already bought a bunch of review and practice books an I watch Khan Academy videos and I watch calculus-help. it really does help cuz my book sucks too.</p>
<p>took bc last year. Learn l’hopitals rule early on. It makes limits easy.</p>
<p>Would learning l’hopital’s rule really help that much? Just memorizing the a few limits would take care of the instances where l’hopital’s rule would be useful.</p>
<p>can anyone explain part b of question 5 here? with the second derivative? <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; it’s driving me insane!!!</p>
<p>Okay so the derivative of the function is given as dB/dt = 1/5(100-B) which = 200-B/5. If you take the derivative of this you find the second derivative of the original function which equals to -1/5. Because this is a negative constant, the original function must always be concaved down because the sign of the second derivative determines a function’s concavity. Now because the graph shown begins concaved up and has a point of inflection, it cannot be the graph of the original function.</p>
<p>I’m taking Calc AB this year, with only 6 other students in my class 
I guess everybody transferred out into Trigstats. Anyways, I hope I can pull at least a three out!</p>
<p>Is buying the AP Calculus book a good idea?</p>
<p>Hey,</p>
<p>What review books are you guys using? I just purchased the AP Barrons Calculus review book. What is everyone else using//planning on using? </p>
<p>Cheers</p>
<p>I took the AP Calculus BC test last year and got a 5. Our teacher bought a supply of AP Barron’s books and they were pretty good. The questions in that book are tough but they can really help to prepare you. For the most part, though, our teacher provided us the education we needed to gain the experience for a 5. Pacing yourself is the best advice I can give you. As you go through the concepts, practice them a lot until you become perfect. Also, don’t forget to try out word problems - those can test your brain at times. It doesn’t matter how great you are (or are not) at math - it’s all about how much practice you get</p>
<p>Could someone compare the difficulties of aops calc book and calc bc exam and class?</p>
<p>I’m a little worried considering we only did 3 chapters 1st semester (we got done with derivatives, next is anti derivatives I think). Is anyone else barely through their calc book too?</p>
<p>We’ve only done 3 chapters as well. I’m not worried about that though. Maybe the AP exam for AB doesn’t cover much.</p>
<p>Huh, we’ve pretty much done all the AB material except for solids of revolution, as well as some extra BC topics… math just got kinda hard this year - maybe it’s because this is the first year I don’t already know all the material going into the class haha</p>