<p>What do you think is gonna be on the ap calc exam this year? i'm talking about both the mc and the free response questions</p>
<p>the m/c is a bit unpredicable.</p>
<p>Hmm I think the M/C can be predicted from old exams. I mean the numbers and wording will not exactly be the same. However, the style of questions might be. I found that after doing the 1997 and 2008 AP Statistic practice exams, the real test this year were quite similar.</p>
<p>(Hopefully I’m not violating my agreement with CB xP)</p>
<p>Lol yeah, the 1969 ones were beyond readable.</p>
<p>There will most probably be a series question in the free response. There was last year when I took it as well as on all of the other old exams I saw. Usually they will also ask a question on rotated solids on the free response, but they didn’t last year. They also seem to like to ask questions that test your conceptual understanding of the derivative and integral (ie providing you with a graph and equation). Last thing would probably be a question involving polar or parametric.</p>
<p>The Maclaurin series of e^x. While not tested directly (i.e., give the Maclaurin series for f(x) = e^x), it came up on two problems in the same multiple choice packet.</p>
<p>Series in general, really…</p>
<p>my predictions for major things:
- Power Series with taylor thrown in
- parametric graph, area, slope, maybe arc-length etc. question
- A revolution of a graph or solid in some way (ab topic)
- An optimization problem
- Polar</p>
<p>maybe logistic growth and vectors or integration or some other random topic as well then.</p>
<p>@bigcrit:</p>
<p>what is an optimization problem?</p>
<p>riemann sum or trapezoid is probably going to be part of one the questions in the FR. There’s definitely going to be a table with values. Most likely an accumilation function (e.g. g(x) = integral of f(t) from 0(or anything another number) to x).</p>
<p>I hope theres no logistic functions. :)</p>
<p>We’ve done a lot of past tests in class, and it’s pretty clear what the topics usually are:</p>
<p>1) Area/Volume
2) Relationship between derivative and integral
3) Differential Equations/approximations
4) Series
5) Polar/Vector
6) Interpretation of rate of change</p>
<p>Lol I haven’t touched on those optimization problems so far.</p>
<p>Sorry that term may not be as widely used as i thought.</p>
<p>It’s basically the application of minimum/maximums to a problem to solve for the “optimized” (aka best or min/max) result such as min price, or maximum volume that can be covered or something.</p>
<p>I also see them with differential equations as a simple optimization problem is just an AB topic.</p>
<p>Edit:
here’s paul online calculus notes on Optimization.
<a href=“http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcI/Optimization.aspx[/url]”>http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcI/Optimization.aspx</a></p>
<p>I’m going to say</p>
<p>Calculator FRQs
-application of integral
-polar area/volume
-not sure</p>
<p>Non-calculator FRQs
-f(x)/f’(x) relationships (Maybe with graph)
-power series
-differential equation/euler</p>
<p>Oh dear God, I hope they have a parametric question instead of polar.</p>
<p>^Yeah I would rather have parametric than polar, but I have a bad feeling that it’s going to be polar</p>
<p>I hate anything polar.</p>
<p>Whoever invented it can go die (he/she is probably already dead though…)</p>
<p>absolutely, questions in polar are way wider than whose in parametric</p>
<p>It also seems like every few years, there is a logistic problem, but I doubt we’ll get one</p>
<p>I’d be okay with a logistics. I just don’t want anything to do with polar.</p>
<p>hey guys it went really well…what do you all think?</p>