<p>Got a five on Calc AB.
Just study the textbook and know the concept very well. </p>
<p>Got a 4 on BC with a 4 on the AB subscore, which is enough for credit at the colleges I’m applying to. I’ll take it :D</p>
<p>@adolescentnerd i’m looking for a online Calc BC course. Is it very hard to get a good grade on FLVS? </p>
<p>@iamkimj No, it’s actually really easy. Most of the assignments are multiple choice quizzes that you can reset 3 times. At the end of each module, you have to do a DBA (discussion based assessment) over the phone in which the teacher asks you some questions about the material, mostly looking for understanding rather than rote memorization. They do a really good job of making it feel more like a conversation than a quiz. If you don’t know something, they’ll walk you through it. For each module in Calc BC, there’s a 2 part exam; the first part is multiple choice and the second part is written response.</p>
<p>Quick question: Is Calc BC really the same as Calculus II? I took a college Calc II course this summer.
I know in theory they’re equivalent, but will that be enough preparation for the exam? Any supplementary materiel I should know about? </p>
<p>Calc BC is essentially L’Hopital’s rule, improper integrals, Taylor and Maclaurin series, radius of convergence for series, various convergence tests for series (geometric series, direct comparison test, limit comparison test, ratio test, alternating series test), slope of polar functions, area of polar functions, displacement of parametric functions, distance traveled in parametric functions, and slope of parametric functions. If you know all of those, you should be fine. I would just take practice tests and become familiar with the type of AP problems you’ll encounter if you know all those.</p>
<p>Ah alright. Sounds like the curricula matches up pretty neatly. I’ll be sure to check out some practice test as well. </p>
<p>Thanks! </p>
<p>Hey Guys,
I just received my score. It was what I expected from myself, a 5.
Its not the credit that matters, its the achievement; makes you feel good/smart about yourself.
How did everyone else here do?</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>I totally agree. That’s the main reason I took the Calc BC exam. I automatically got credit through the class because it was dual credit with the local community college. I really took the exam to see how well I learned the material. It turns out, I knew it very well, since I got a 5.</p>
<p>Got a 5. Yes.</p>
<p>For those who got a 4/5 on AP CALCULUS BC, what prep book did you use and what other material (websites, links, etc) for studying?</p>
<p>also, for those with a 4, what else do you think you could’ve/should’ve done to get the 5?</p>
<p>I got a 5 on BC, and used the princeton review AB&BC prep book (actually didn’t use it that much, but the practice tests were great to do once in a while). Also Kahn academy helped me sooo much.</p>
<p>@College123college Personally, I used Barron’s, but I also used all of the practice on could find on College Board’s website. My AP teacher also had an additional book (I don’t know what it was called), but it had another entire practice test full of multiple choice questions. I got a 5.</p>
<p>@College123college I just did the classwork, which was finding old free response and MC questions and using those. Our teacher was a former grader, so that helped. I guess I could have gotten a 5 if I actually tried studying? :P</p>