<p>Hey is anyone else here taking Calc BC. We don't have that class at my school, so for the past two weeks I've been trying to study everything on the BC. Does anyone else think that it is just plain memorization? There really isn't much but formulas and rules :(. I think im dissapointed by BC calc. Although, the taylor polynomials are pretty cool</p>
<p>Oh I am justthe opposite I think it is a lot more conceptual than other classes because most of the formulas can be derived and make good sense. It might just be you are trying to learn it in 2 weeks, and i've hada whole year. I don't mind taylor and maclaurin series much, but i hate tests for convergence for series! Hate it! Now I gotta start studying, cuz the AP is tommorrow.</p>
<p>I took BC last year, I'm one of those people that doesn't memorize anything so I just redervived everything during the test. lol I'm gonna do the same thing for physics C. I really liked Calc BC, after taking it I started thinking about majoring in math.</p>
<p>I don't think it's a lot of formulas.
Well, I mean, there are a lot of formulas,
but it's not straight memorization.
I agree with ssechrist, it's mainly conceptual.</p>
<p>If you need help with anything, just leave a message.
I'm sure like..a lot of people here could help you out, lol.</p>
<p>*Ps. you're allowed to put formulas on your calc, I'm pretty sure. but you just can't use your calc on that first part of the MC.</p>
<p>you cant use calc on part of the fr either. But when you can use your calc, don't waste time integrating impossible things. They give you the calc for a reason, its a real time-saver. I completely aced the practice AP i took in class, but there's still a bunch i don't know, so i'm just gonna cram for another hr.</p>
<p>well its not that it's really difficult, its rather I'm just dissapointed in all the formulas, it takes the fun out of math, but ,ssechrist, you're probably right, and I know it was bad to cram. I guess if i had time to actually read through the history and proofs it would be easier and more fun.</p>
<p>I took it this morning, it was simple.</p>
<p>I thought the mc was easy, but i screwed up on the part 2s. I think i still didd good enough for a 5,tho.</p>
<p>okay, WHAT!? I thought the first section, MC no calc, was hard as crap! seriously, you guys thought it was easy??</p>
<p>well if it was not multiple choice i wouldn't have done very good, because half the time the answer i got wasn't one of the choices. but luckily it was mc so i could just try something else.</p>
<p>I don't know. That kept happening to me too.. I kept getting answers that weren't there. Which made me try it again like ten times, STILL getting an answer that wasn't a choice...</p>
<p>I left like 9 blank.. I was so sure I was gonna get a 5, but now I have no idea..</p>
<p>I thought it was all a piece of cake. Unless I made a stupid mistake I'm pretty sure I got all the MC and Short answer right. It was all really basic calculus, nothing extremely complicated (maybe there is more than one form of the test?)</p>
<p>I thought my performance on the mc felt very similar to how I thought I did in my in class practice multiple choice exam. It'd be great if I did as well on the real thing, since, based on my multiple choice performance on the practice exam, I would of had in between a 96 to 99 percent chance of getting 5 when using my mc score to predict scores on free response. However, I am a bit nervous regarding my free response. I thought I did very well, I was able to answer every single letter and question with only a few uncertanties. However, I didn't notice that we had to round strictly to 3 decimal places. I wrote my answers out to like 5 or 6 decimal places. So, I really hope they don't take off points for all my free response questions, that would really really really suck.</p>
<p>ORLY? we had to round to 3 decimal places? i never read the directions lol. i'm sure they wouldn't count off tho.</p>
<p>Yea I thought it was very easy, there wasn't really many BC topics on the MC. I think I did very good on the free response except number 6 i left completly blank because I didn't even get to cover set convergence and all that.</p>
<p>I also wrote my decimals out 5 or 6 places haha. o well. I'll be fine with a 4 considering I tried(key word) to self study this in 2 weeks.</p>
<p>SISIS,
you self-studied all of bc in two weeks, that's amazing. Did you already know calc ab or equivalent and just studied the bc parts, or did you have to learn all of calc (both first and second semester)?</p>
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<p>It had to be done.</p>
<p>you will only lose a point for bad rounding. It shouldn't affect your score unless you were borderline 4/5.</p>
<p>Yea I took almost all of AB last year, my class didn't cover disk/washer/shell </p>
<p>so I learned everything from the disk to basic series which was really only 4 chapters in my calc book.</p>
<p>Still, that's pretty impressive, mastering 4 chapters in only two weeks.</p>
<p>ssechrist is that one point for each question and possibly letter, or one point on the whole free response?</p>