<p>I REALLY need a 5 in Ap Calc AB exam</p>
<p>What are the ways...........................?</p>
<p>Khan Academy. Stewart Calculus. and Thomas Calculus.</p>
<p>In the end, the only way to guarantee yourself a 5 is to put in maximum effort.</p>
<p>Practice. Assuming you will be taking the class over this coming school year, just make sure you understand everything; do all of your homework, and more if necessary during the year.</p>
<p>When it comes closer to the exam, there are basically infinite practice resources available, including like 70+ full FRQ sections from past exams available from the collegeboard for free, and even the very old exams can be decent practice (though a few topics may have changed). Your teacher might also have access to practice MC exams, which you can take. There are really more than enough resources out there if you want to use them.</p>
<p>Pay attention during class, and make sure you understand all the concepts. That’ll guarantee a 5.</p>
<p>My teacher really did an awesome job, too. But outside of that I bought the 5 steps to a 5 Calculus book and used that to prepare for every unit test and the actual AP exam. I also used Patrick’s Just Math Tutoring videos on YouTube (awesome!).</p>
<p>We did tons of practice free response questions and my teacher even made up some so we could cover any kind of hard problem that the CB could have came up with. Luckily the 2 hardest for me (the bird/related rates problem and the volume/rotation problem) were similar to the ones from 2011 and we practiced different versions of the question type like 5 times each. So, figure out which ones are hardest for you and practice them. Then score them and figure out what you keep getting wrong.</p>
<p>I took at least 3 practice tests and like 10 practice free-response question tests. By the last 4 I was scoring perfect or near perfect scores… because of practice.</p>
<p>If your teacher offers after school help (especially in the weeks nearing the exam) make sure you stay and ask as many questions as you can. I asked my teacher to literally reteach certain topics like Intermediate Value Theorem and Related Rates.</p>
<p>Lastly, make sure you are thoroughly prepared for each and every test you take in class. </p>
<p>Hope this helps :)</p>
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<li>Truly master i.e. UNDERSTAND the concepts.</li>
<li>Put in the effort. You won’t be successful without hard work.<br></li>
<li>Make sure you master your homework problems. </li>
<li>Do LOTS of old FRQs and old MCs</li>
<li>If you’re confused, seek help. (i.e. get tutoring from your teacher, or use some resources online like Khan Academy, Patrick JMT, Paul’s Online Math Notes)</li>
<li>If you feel you need it, get a review book. Either Princeton Review or Peterson’s are terrific.</li>
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<p>-Try to derive or prove the formulas you are given. It doesn’t make sense to blindly apply the theorems you see in class, just to prepare for a test and move on. You’ll understand a theorem much better if you know how to prove it.</p>
<p>Then again, some theorems require higher-level math to prove. For example, you probably never formally derived the formula for the area of a circle because it involves limits and L’Hopital’s rule (an exercise you can try in calculus class!). The theorem that states that there is no general solution to a 5th degree polynomial or higher requires Galois theory to prove it.</p>