<p>I'm signing up the BC test and I just have some questions for those past test takers:</p>
<p>Did you find that you had enough time to take the test? Or were you rushed too fast?</p>
<p>How much did you prep for the test after the general course of instruction? Did you feel the prep was necessary?</p>
<p>Did you find the BC test questions to be fairly straightforward, or requiring of high logical skills?</p>
<p>Thanks ya'll.</p>
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<p>I self studied BC, so I may not make a good comparison.</p>
<p>I found the test to be considerably less difficult than I had thought it would have been. I over prepared though. I bought that white book with all of the free response problems/solutions from 1987, the Barron's book, and downloaded the most recent free response questions from collegeboard.com. </p>
<p>I'd suggest you go to apcentral.collegeboard.com and download some of those free response Q's to get a feel for how the questions are.</p>
<p>I thought it was fairly straight forward. The question types were comparable to those on the Math IIc, except of course they were calc-based.</p>
<p>Good luck and hope this helped!</p>
<p>It did, because I'm currently self-studying the BC test myself as well. Did you have to know any Calculus terms well enough?</p>
<p>Uh, what do you mean by calculus terms? Go to the collegeboard website, download the BC syllabus and just make sure you know everything on it.</p>
<p>I've looked over the syllabus many times over. I dunno, maybe instead of doing mathematical problems subliminally in my head, should I get a concious grip over what's continuous or what makes something differentiable, etc.?</p>
<p>i never did prep, just what was in the course.. nobody at my school takes AP tests seriously.. still got a 4 however. time wasnt really a problem... most of the questions are straight forward.. most.</p>
<p>Download the free response questions off collegeboard.com and do them. If you can get 65% write, you should be good for a 5.</p>
<p>You should know, for instance, what constitutes a continuous function (f(x) exists for all x over the interval & lim x->c f(x) = f(c) for all of that interval). Best way to prep is to do some of the actual problems.</p>
<p>Yes, thank you all. I think MC is straightforward, but with the free response, what kind of work must I show? And what would 65% mean for that section?</p>
<p>here's a book w/ 15 years worth of free response w/ solutions:
<a href="http://www.moems.org/calc.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.moems.org/calc.htm</a></p>
<p>multiple choice is a joke.. (But no calculator so it sometimes becomes a bit time consuming)</p>
<p>and rechecking all the free resoponse takes up time</p>