Calculus AB/BC 2010 Thread

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<p>BC Here</p>

<p>MC No-calc was pretty easy. Talking to people about it afterwards, i think i might have missed at least one. MC Calc, there were 2-3 questions that confused me initially. </p>

<p>On the FRQ Calc section, I was fine on 1 and 2, the last two parts of 3 confused me to the point where I just gave up…</p>

<p>FRQ No-calc, 4 made me uncertain as to whether i wrote enough, 5 was easy.</p>

<p>Lol 6… Oddly enough, it was the one i was the most prepared for. Ever since my BC teacher found out that some of her students for last year’s test skipped the series question, she has been on the warpath. Almost every single one of our AP practice tests had a free response series question, so it’s been drilled into our heads enough that I actually understood the question.</p>

<p>EDIT: Every single question on that exam, MC or FRQ, was easier than on any review I did, so I think i did really well. I feel so relieved!</p>

<p>Double EDIT: Reading through this thread, i’m surprised at how many people found 6 hard. I found 3 hard personally, but 6 was fun.</p>

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<p>I don’t think we can discuss them specifically for another 43 hours :X</p>

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<p>Sometimes I wish I took a formal AP Calculus BC course to understand Taylor polynomials, but I probably planning to take Calculus II at college just to understand it more.</p>

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<p>I felt somewhat unprepared for the exam thanks to my school’s crappy AB course administration. I had great understanding of the concepts, loved the math, and retained a 100 average. Now, I’ll be lucky to get a 4…</p>

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<p>What’s the curve for a 4 on BC?</p>

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<p>MC on AB was easy, I finished Part B with more than half the time left. The FRQ was more difficult on part A, but not horrible. When I got to the no calculator FRQ, I just blanked out and stared slackjawed at my test. It sucked…I just hope I can scrape a 5, but realistically I am looking at a 4.</p>

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<p>Thank god the last FRQ on BC wasn’t the first one or my confidence would have been crushed lol. And was it just me or did the calculator MC questions seem like twice as hard as the non-calculator ones? (However the non-calculator ones were fairly easy)</p>

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<p>How is the raw score or whatever calculated? As in, when people say “You need a 70”, how is that 70 calculated?</p>

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<p>^Number of questions right - (1/4 * number of questions wrong) + about 9 points per free response. I think.</p>

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<p>I thought you multiplied something by 1.25 or something…I’ma just look it up.</p>

<p>…</p>

<p>So it’s 1.2((Number of questions right) - (1/4 * number of questions wrong)) + FR points</p>

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<p>AB…
I totally bombed it… Currently waiting for a 1 :frowning:
The free-response question was literally ***?!?</p>

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<p>AB - i those frq’s were a lot easier than the practice ones. i had no trouble finding an answer and confirming it with longer steps.</p>

<p>mc was average, i left 1 blank because i blanked out on that subject lol. but the rest wasn’t too bad, around the same as the practice ones.</p>

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<p>I took AB and I seem to be in the minority on CC that thought the FRQ was really easy… Which ones did you guys find hard?</p>

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<p>@jerry, I think I got owned too lol</p>

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<p>Lol if you wrote the exam, you can’t get a 1, the worst I think for everyone is a 3</p>

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<p>BC exam: multiple choice was easy, calculator FRQ was easy but I misread a problem :(, non-calc FRQ was holy-**** hard</p>

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<p>bc
it took 5 hours to finally be over with that exam…
and the proctor gave us 1hr and 8mins for the calc MC lol
i refused to learn how to do problems like #5 on the FR (finding the particular solution)
and #6 i know the maclaurin for cosx, but i was unsure of how to deal with piecewise function with taylors O_o
i just played around with the parent function cosx.</p>

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<p>that was like the easiest question lol, the other ones are what bit me hard</p>

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<p>cause for that particular one, the variables weren’t separable and i didn’t study how to do those kinds well.</p>

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<p>I am an international, maybe we aren’t talking about on the same page here.</p>