<p><a href="http://asmsa.org/math/marizza/Calculus/APTEST/ap04_calcmc_collection_final_4_12_05.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://asmsa.org/math/marizza/Calculus/APTEST/ap04_calcmc_collection_final_4_12_05.pdf</a>
Are these accurate for today's standards? I really don't want to waste money buying the 2003 or 2008 exam. I already practiced OE from all of the released ones.</p>
<p>The exam format changed between the 1997 and 1998 exams to allow for the availability of calculator usage in the classroom environment. So the exams now just tend to be different from that point of view.</p>
<p>Also, volume by shells was a BC topic until 1997, but no longer is. That’s the only change to the BC exam that I can remember.</p>
<p>Has the difficulty changed in any way? I took the 1998 test for BC and did way better than the a certain test my teacher gave us in class. She said that it was a college board released test, but she didn’t specify the year or anything. I’m not sure what year it was from. I do the remember that it had a sewage problem as the first OE and a taylor series for cos(2x)-1/x^2.</p>
<p>^That was the practice exam from 2008. It was released by the College Board, but I don’t think it was an actual exam.</p>
<p>Like themathprof said, it is hard to compare current tests with older ones (especially pre-1998) in terms of difficulty. The allowance of calculators in particular means that what is being tested is different. The same problem occurs when trying to compare the difficulty of the current SAT with that from before 1995, when calculators were allowed, among other changes.</p>
<p>^Did you find that one excessively difficult? I thought it was much harder than the 1998 test. On the 1998 test I got 43/45 mc, but on that one i got a 23/45.</p>
<p>The Practice Exam struck a lot of people as being significantly more difficult than the other released actual tests, myself included.</p>
<p>thank you so much. i am relieved.</p>
<p>You guys did backwards from me! I got 44/45 on the 2008 course audit and 39/45 on the 1997 exam. I think the newer tests are easier in both FRQ and MC.</p>