AP Calculus AB

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<p>@An0maly,</p>

<p>that’s not true</p>

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<p>@ one<em>proud</em>Korean - and what is your source? TheMathProf has posted that 75/108 is a “safe” 5 and several people have written that 65-70 is usually the boundary for a 5 over the years on the forum; search if you’re unsure.</p>

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<p>So is 55/108 a safe for a 4 in the Calc AB exam???</p>

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<p>I would say that 55/108 is fairly borderline for a 4. Probably more often than not, you’d get it would be my guess.</p>

<p>But I wouldn’t call it safe.</p>

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<p>Sorry for the double post, but it was too late to edit the previous reply.</p>

<p>Here’s a thread where I had posted the cut score numbers that I had found for the six previous releases of AP Exam cut scores.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/348375-ap-calculus-ab-curve.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ap-tests-preparation/348375-ap-calculus-ab-curve.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>1985 AP AB exam
84 to 108 = 5
68 to 83 = 4
49 to 67 = 3
34 to 48 = 2
0 to 33 = 1</p>

<p>1988 AP AB exam
83 to 108 = 5
68 to 82 = 4
48 to 67 = 3
32 to 47 = 2
0 to 31 = 1</p>

<p>1993 AP AB exam
67 to 108 = 5
53 to 66 = 4
36 to 52 = 3
24 to 35 = 2
0 to 23 = 1</p>

<p>1997 AP AB exam
72 to 108 = 5
56 to 71 = 4
39 to 55 = 3
25 to 38 = 2
0 to 24 = 1</p>

<p>1998 AP AB exam
74 to 108 = 5
57 to 73 = 4
39 to 56 = 3
24 to 38 = 2
0 to 23 = 1</p>

<p>2003 AP AB exam
66 to 108 = 5
47 to 65 = 4
29 to 46 = 3
16 to 28 = 2
0 to 15 = 1</p>

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<p>^ Hmm that’s interesting. How come the score needed to get a 5 keeps going down??</p>

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<p>The tests have common questions from year-to-year to use as a baseline with which to judge the difficulty of the tests.</p>

<p>So, in theory, the scores you need for a 5 go down when the difficulty of the test goes up.</p>

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<p>…what happened to 1993 lol?</p>

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<p>If you take a look at question 6, I think that’ll answer most of that question for you. :)</p>

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<p>AnOmaly,</p>

<p>I’m sure you are correct that College Calc often differs in many ways, but I’d still put my AP Calc students up against the local Univ’s Calc 1 students any day. Consider …</p>

<ul>
<li>the folks taking Calc 1 in college are usually those who didn’t pass AP in high school. The talent pool is way thinner.</li>
<li>I have 165 x 42 min (100 hrs) instruction time vs college 30 hrs. Lotsa time to explore and think about what’s going on.</li>
<li>Many AP Calc teachers are probably among the stronger teachers at their schools, and many consider Calc to be their favorite challenge. In general, I’d guess college calc teachers have larger classes, and put less into planning and student understanding for such a low level class - research and upper level classes are probably more interesting to your typical prof.</li>
</ul>

<p>In the end, maybe AP Calc student would have difficulty with college exams (mine don’t, I have used the local U’s midterm), but college students would probably get SPANKED by the AP exam.</p>