<p>what do you think is the best way to study for calculus?
what is the easiest thing about calculus, the hardest thing?</p>
<p>A textbook and a bunch of problems. Easiest thing is the basic derivatives and integrals hardest thing are applications and series(BC only topic)</p>
<p>Series were so hard for me!!!! idk why, but i just couldn't understand them...... But that's only BC. Hardest thing in AB is finding the volume after an object revolves around an axis.</p>
<p>Just do a BUNCH of practice. A bunch.</p>
<p>depends.. if you're taking the class and you have a good teacher, then take good notes and study along (and then a little review the night before... that's what i did [since i had a great teacher] and i got a 5)... now, for independent study or a bad teacher scenario, then get a couple of books, read over the chapters, do plenty of problems, and make calculus 2nd nature for you</p>
<p>easiest thing --> basic differentiation and basic integration... and limits (since calculus is basically based on limits)</p>
<p>hardest thing --> rotational volume problems (not really "hard" per se, but if you screw up one little tiny detail, you'll be completely wrong)</p>
<p>this is for AB, by the way... i'm taking BC next year, so i can't say anything about BC... but it's supposed to be considerably easier than AB since 60% of the BC exam is still AB stuff (so it's "old" stuff)</p>
<p>Practice is extremely important. The first few times you try something, you'll get it wrong and have no idea what happened. If you just do a few more problems you'll figure it out.</p>
<p>Do the open response problems from previous years' tests. The same topics are on year after year, like area/volume problems, slope fields and differential equations, particle motion, related rates, etc. If you can do basic differentiation and integration and limits you can get some points on the multiple choice section.
AP:</a> Calculus AB</p>
<p>I think Peytoncline has most of it. Series were really easy as well. Be careful of logistic growth problems though; Collegeboard likes to trick us frail high school students.</p>
<p>Go buy a princeton review book :) I self studied for the BC portion and got a 5 on 2008 calc BC exam using that book.</p>
<p>you should take everyone's suggestions into consideration. because that's how i managed a 5.
i did like 100 free response questions from cb; those questions are administered in the past.
u need to understand the concepts, u dont have to know how to solve everything in the textbook,which often gives u harder questions.
follow everyone's sugg.</p>
<p>I had a hard time with Cal AB, but I actually got a 4. </p>
<p>The basic startegy for Calculus is to practice doing problems over and over again.</p>
<p>The hardest part of Calculus was integrating functions to arccos, arcsin, etc.</p>
<p>The easiest part of Calculus was the power rule.</p>
<p>I self studied AP Cal AB using The Dummy's Guide to Calculus and the Princeton Review Study guide</p>
<p>Took me about a month, I ended up with a 5.</p>
<p>I think for math course, there is no good way to study. You should just learn as much as possible in your class. Don't memorize formulas or anything, but instead learn how the formulas work. Then before the test, do some reviewing to ensure that you remember what you learned. You could do some practice problems to get a feel for the test, but I didn't because I do not do more work than necessary.</p>
<p>The biggest mistake people seem to do in math courses is not actually do the problems when they read the sections. You won't learn math by just reading the book: if you haven't done the problems, you probably haven't learned much of anything.</p>
<p>If one book's style of presentation isn't clicking with you, check out another resource. There are many great books and websites that will explain the concepts to you in a different light that might click best.</p>
<p>Just do a bunch of practice problems.</p>
<p>Don't even worry about calc. The curve is ridiculous.</p>
<p>I'm taking calculus BC this year and i heard that my teacher is the worst teacher ever :[
the whole class was falling asleep during his lecture. i planned to study for the ap test by myself, so do u guys know what book should i get? i don't know if i should get arco or princeton review?</p>
<p>I was given Princeton Review by my school and that helped a lot. I was in an AB class and had to self study the BC portions.</p>
<p>I used that book and hippocampus.org to learn all of the BC material in the 2 weeks before the test, and I got a 5 (plus 5 subscore).</p>
<p>i just have only one month to study.
hardest is solving problems because english is not my 1st language.
i self study AP cal AB on my own and just start since last week…
do you think can i get a great grade in the test in may. I’m so worried 
btw, i know a little bit about cal before because i already studied it in my country but in my mother language.not in english
do you think one month left is enough for me to improve my skills
do you have any suggestion about solving problems?</p>
<p>We aren’t doing volume on a rotational axis in AB. </p>
<p>crap.</p>