So…
I’m at a public magnet high school and calculus BC is just a steamroller. About 4-5 people in my whole class have A’s. Everyone else, 80-90% B’s, the 20-10% C’s.
The teacher says he makes his tests as hard as the AP test…
Is this just my teacher and my school, or is BC just this hard?
Okay maybe 3-4, not 5.
Not sure…
My tests are like the real AP exam but people here get A’s.
Same method was used last year for AP Calculus AB and almost everyone got a 5.
Since the AP Calculus BC exam is pretty straightforward in its questions I’m guessing your teacher uses applied questions to make it really hard.
Prob just your teacher xDDDDD
D’you think you can give me like… an example test question that’s typical?
So here are mine…
http://www.misterhoffman.com/downloads/Kwiki1318.pdf
http://www.misterhoffman.com/downloads/Kwiki%201416.pdf
These OVERALL above average difficulty questions.
^ those are literally some of the easiest questions I have ever seen
you were asked to integrate a simple polynomial and find the average of 4 integers
those are far easier than some AP questions (have you seen some of the early 2000s taylor questions?)
I’ve only had 2 tests so far in my Calc BC class so I can’t really say the difficulty overall. Since there’s only 9 kids in my class the teacher relies more on class participation than exams to determine the grade. That being so, getting a decent grade isn’t all that hard
Okay actually those were the wrong kwiki’s.
Those WERE the easier ones… I assure you.
On tests, we’re often asked to prove arccos, or cos^-1. If not that, I recall proving sine^2 + cos^2 =1 w/e.
Not too easy I thought.
Okay… I should have probably chosen different examples. Those were pretty bad.
So… any different evaluation for my class difficulty?
The class isn’t too difficult IF you pay attention
I go to a really bad public high school, and the behavior was eh so only 2 kids got As both semesters
I would’ve killed to have tests at the same level of difficulty as the AP exam. My teacher would purposely give us tests 100x harder than our homework, which came out of a textbook that was impossible to understand. My teacher was also really bad and went off on tangents in every class. Only one person in the class had an A.
Sounds almost like mine…
I go to a public magnet high school and apparently teachers in the department were overheard laughing about giving hard tests.
If you think Calc BC is hard material, I assume you’re not taking Physics C. 
HAH!
You surely jest, my good sir! A good laugh, yes?
But really, no, I got a better grade in Physics: C than in BC…
I’m going to assume because of what you said that my BC class is clearly just hard…
You do know they have released AP calc BC exams where you can judge for yourself if your course is more rigorous than necessary?
From what you’ve shown I can’t even believe this was given as a test in a college prep class at a magnet school.
Compare your tests to MIT OCW’s problem sets and exams for course 18.01
If your tests are on par with those then yes your teacher is over preparing you, but he’d probably be teaching you calculus the right way.
Sorry, but your questions (including the updated ones you posted) don’t seem that hard? Tbh we did some similar questions (e.g. proving sin^2 + cos^2 = 1) in pre-calc.
@TojoMojiWWII Proving sin^2 x + cos^2 x = 1 is easy.
Also, the questions you provided seem easier than actual Calculus BC (or maybe on the same difficulty as multiple choice, but definitely easier than FRQ). You should look at MIT’s 18.01 (or 18.014 if you want more of a challenge). Better yet, AoPS’s calculus textbook.
@TojoMojoWWII
I also had a better Physics C grade than Calc BC, but that was solely because of the physics teacher’s insane curves (55% = A).
I was just saying Calc BC material isn’t too hard to grasp. Granted, proofs do make it harder, but we did a lot of those trig proofs in precalc.