<p>I hope my instincts were wrong and the questions for the FRQ were really harder than most people thought so the curve is really good lol… but that’s probably not true</p>
<p>See, I didn’t think the concepts of the questions where that difficult, but some parts were. For example, one the first one, I didn’t think the first three parts were hard at all, but I honestly had no idea what they were talking about with the y and Y thing. I thought sketching graphs on these mechanics FRQs were confusing, but the actual plotting of the data and drawing the best fit was easy</p>
<p>I totally messed up on the 1st graph of the mech1. And the graph for mech3 was pretty bad too…</p>
<p>E&M…yuck.</p>
<p>Messed up atleast half of the last 2 questions</p>
<p>For prep, I did a past Mech and E&M MC, perfect scores on both
Did last year’s E&M FRQ, 32/45
So will be comparing to that…</p>
<p>Mechanics MC - Didn’t have time to get to last question but didn’t think there were any challenging questions, so average difficulty?
Mechanics FRQ - Didn’t think this was conceptually difficult but there was a ****load of annoying computation so I didn’t get to finish two questions. Much harder than normal
E&M MC - Couldn’t answer two questions but once again thought it was average difficulty
E&M FRQ - This was very easy; much easier than normal</p>
<p>Wouldn’t be surprised if Mech and E&M had the same scaled score cutoffs to get a 5 this year</p>
<p>i have a feeling you’d need like a 30% to get a 3 on Mech this year…</p>
<p>^Oh gosh, hopefully… if I even got 30%. I thought the MC was average compared to past years, though I didn’t finish them all. FRQ was ***. -____-; I BSed everything and even drew my force diagram wrong. There were an abundance of sad/crying faces and the words “cry, cry, cry” everywhere on that booklet.</p>
<p>Mech: Maybe a 3. Hoping
E&M: Hoping for a 2, but if I’m honest, probs a 1.</p>
<p>I’m going to spend the whole summer learning physics</p>
<p>Mechanics MC:
Moderate hard… not enough time.</p>
<p>Mechanics FRQ: Easier compared to previous years.</p>
<p>Electricity MC:
It beasted me, but I suck at it.</p>
<p>Electricity FRQ:
Circuit was easy, failed the rest.</p>
<p>on mechanics:
MC was alright. I skipped 7 and most of the other answers are right.
FRQ…the last one really destroyed me, i only get part A of the last one. Then i ran out of time. 1,2 are pretty decent in term of Easy-Medium-Hard.</p>
<p>I loved the free response for mechanics, since i love math 
I thought the mc was average</p>
<p>Don’t worry, I think you can still make a 5 if you miss a whole FRQ.</p>
<p>I actually thought that Mechanics was really easy and E&M was unusually more difficult than past exams. Mech MCs were really easy imo, and the FRQs were mostly easy. E&M MCs were easy, but the FRQs took some thinking for some reason, even though I knew I had done examples of each and every one of them before.</p>
<p>The whole mechanics section seemed much harder to me than previous exams. I had to omit 5 questions and there were a few I was unsure about and the FR is always shaky for me so who knows I may have done well or not. Either way I felt the test was much harder than I expected</p>
<p>Did anyone else think FRQ #2 on mechanics was really easy? I always thought the last part of each question was supposed to be the hardest, but I had tons of work for a-c and part d for me was like 3 lines…were we just supposed to use conservation of horizontal momentum?</p>
<p>Don’y worry too much, last year I thought that I bombed it, but I got 5s on both sections. I’m sure most of the people on this site will get 4s and 5s.</p>
<p>Mechanics wasn’t that bad… got destroyed by E&M though. I probably missed ~10 MCs.</p>
<p>For E&M 1, I integrated to get the electric field, and then went back to part c and antidifferentiated that for the potential. I didn’t know how else to do it. </p>
<p>E&M 2… let’s just say I had no idea how the current is supposed to go… I just wrote P=IV and left the last question blank.</p>
<p>E&M 3: I put clockwise but I’m pretty sure it’s counterclockwise. And I believe it gets dimmer. I used Ampere’s Law to get the magnetic field… and then used that to find the flux.</p>
<p>I thought the MC was hard and the FR was easy, but that is just me.</p>
<p>Still don’t think I did much better than a 3 though.</p>
<p>The Mech MC was pretty manageable for me. I answered every question and had actually arrived at an answer for all but two (for those two, I took a guess).</p>
<p>The FRQ was absolutely brutal. I literally couldn’t do any of them. I kept just writing the equations I thought I was supposed to use and spitting out random numbers with the correct units so I could do the next part and at least pick up a few points.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be surprised if I got >80% on the MC with <30% on the FR.</p>
<p>I’m freaking out right now. I hate this feeling.</p>
<p>iceui2, i did what you did for E&M 3, except I got counterCW. And I used Biot-Savart for the flux and Ampere’s for the question before that.</p>
<p>but for E&M 1, I didn’t have to use any calculus b/c distance was the same. ?</p>
<p>The mechanics exam presented no foreign difficulties. My performance on the E & M portion, though, was a bit questionable at times due to relatively inconsequential preparation and personal weakness. I had merely finished the curriculum early this morning. However, by AP standards, I believe that I obtained a 5 on both.</p>