Calculus AB/BC 2010 Thread

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Was that the one where part of it asked you to estimate a value?</p>

<p>My snow problem was number 1.</p>

<p>someone write down the questions and everything they remember for AB and post when your allowed…</p>

<p>■■■ lol i forgot to write down Pi on a FRQ… ■■■■■■■■ mistake…
Other than that i think BC turned out pretty well… both MCs were easy, and FRQ wasn’t TOO bad. last one was long but do-able.</p>

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CollegeBoard puts the FRQ up after 48 hours lol.</p>

<p>Do they put the scoring guidelines as well? Or do they just put up the questions, and then we have to wait a little bit longer?</p>

<p>well i didnt know lol…</p>

<p>When are the scoring guidelines up?</p>

<p>I couldn’t help but feel bad for Janet from FRQ 1 >_< Seriously, 3+ hours of shoveling up snow? D=</p>

<p>haha…what was up with the frq?..did they change them up knowing we had an abundant amount of past years’ frq’s to study with? they were very creative in my opinion</p>

<p>AB: The multiple choice was a breeze, but honestly the FRQ were not of appropriate difficulty. It was RIDICULOUS!!! A lot harder than released questions. Geez…it gets harder every year.</p>

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<p>I can honestly say that nothing that I learned during the course prepared me for this exam. All the practice problems my teacher gave me and made us do from our workbook were no where near similar to the ones on the exam.</p>

<p>I left about 12 blank on the MC. I guessed a lot. As for the FRQs, I pretty much drew pictures and wrote stories for at least 3 boxes.</p>

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Today’s questions were so much easier than the released FRQs… There was one washer, one incredibly easy differential equation, no related rates, no optimization, no linearization, no difficult Riemann sums. Almost every one of the questions was just a verbose integral or function/derivative/second derivative problem…</p>

<p>@NewAccount If I remember from checking AP Central last year, it was up on August. Student responses were up on September, if you want to know that information.</p>

<p>Thanks for the response.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I actually wasted a little time calculating the cubic footage of snow vs. the size of an average driveway to get snow depth, because I was stupidly curious as to how realistic a problem this was.</p>

<p>@Jersey13: Ironically, the related rates, optimization, and Riemann sums are what come easily to me. Oh well, we’ll just have to wait and see what happens in July!</p>

<p>^ Integrals/Derivatives are so much more basic though. </p>

<p>None of the FRQ required trigonometric derivatives or inverse trigonometric derivatives. There was no U substitution in the FRQ either…</p>

<p>Aaargh, I can’t remember if I wrote a crucial part or not on a FRQ. (Trying to be broad so that College Board doesn’t hate on me.)
I thought the FRQ was as bad as always (in my class, we did A LOT of practice FRQ). But not too horrible, and it’s not like I could’ve expected it to be fine and dandy and easy. I overthought some of the problems though :frowning: But then suddenly experienced epiphanies and hopefully fixed it all correctly. Aiming for a 5…4 would be ok…don’t think I got a 3 :)</p>

<p>We’ll be able to see the grading rubric for the FRQs for AB in 48 hours???</p>