<p>Can anyone tell me if there is a website which has all the past year curves and predicts this year's curve for the AP calc BC test? I know it's around 65-70% of the raw score, but i'd like the exact number if you can</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>they don’t release curves for recent years, so it is really just based off guess work. 65-70% is like a guaranteed 5. I would say you could probably get around 60% and still pull off a 5 on Calc BC. Its a very generous curve and I believe that ~30% get a 5 on it.</p>
<p>So basically you could just ace the AB stuff on there and get a 5? (AB is 60% of the test)</p>
<p>^No, but you can easily get a 3 without learning the BC stuff.
I think to get a 5 in bC, you have to score about 65 pts+ out of 108(come on guys, why use %???).
it’s just a bit higher than the AB i think. I know the AB cut off was like around 60 for a 5, so BC must be 65 ~ 70 +</p>
<p>I heard from my teacher that you need to average about 6 out of 9 for every free response question.</p>
<p>The BC test is easier than AB curve wise (hence why 30 ish % get a 5 on it).</p>
<p>You could get a 4 maybe a 5 just acing AB, but that is quite hard.</p>
<p>Do questions with polar curves usually appear in the free response section for BC?</p>
<p>Oh god, please no polar curves</p>
<p>there’s usually one polar or parametric free response. sometimes there’s both. also, there’s usually one area/volume, one taylor/power series. other common questions include FTC part 2 and MVT/IVT tables.</p>
<p>Ugg I took AB this year, but I’m going to take the BC test (self studying BC material). I looked at least years BC FRQ and like half of the FRQ’s were from the AB test. So do they test a lot about polar/parametric? I’m focusing a lot on series/sequences since that seems to be a big thing in BC. And a bunch of integration techniques…</p>
<p>Our teacher has just been giving us a wide breadth of FRQs to get us to extrapolate what we know in our brains and combine the results together…</p>
<p>So far… everyone in the class i having trouble.</p>
<p>But everyone in the class is scoring 80%+ right on the MC tests she gives out.</p>
<p>the BC exam only has 40% of the AB material, according to the REA crash course</p>
<p>Actually, by percent AP BC Calc is the easiest AP exam. last year 49.4% of the people who took it got 5’s</p>
<p>its has the highest percent for a 5 because usually only motivated kids take the exam</p>
<p>AP Calculus BC consists of two types of students, depending on the school:</p>
<p>(1) Students who took AP Calculus AB the previous year, meaning that they had to reach AP Calculus AB at or before their junior year. These students are disproportionately more talented in math (generally speaking) than the students who reached AP Calculus AB their senior year.</p>
<p>(2) Students who took AP Calculus BC rather than taking AP Calculus AB at their school. These students generally tend to be stronger students than their AP Calculus AB counterparts, and also generally tend to be more motivated to be successful.</p>
<p>You combine these two pieces, and you would expect that more students do well on the AP Calculus BC exam because of the nature of the population taking the test.</p>