How was calculus BC

<p>Multiple choice was very easy (finished Part I of the multi choice in 15 min). The free response questions were a little bit challenging, but completely doable.</p>

<p>Disclaimer: Do Not PM/IM/contact me in any way to ask for and/or provide questions/answers for the test (both multiple choice and free response), I will block you. I do not intend to break ETS' rules.</p>

<p>Form R's FR questions weren't written in English. Part I noncalc MC was a bit hard and Part II calc MC was a joke.</p>

<p>...^okay dude...</p>

<p>edit: my okay dude was directed to Yatta!'s disclaimer.</p>

<p>did anyone notice a problem in the definition of the second function in FRQ II? I can't discuss it in more depth cos of the rules, but i think there was a flaw in the definition of the piecewise.</p>

<p>@mmkay, I must cover my ***, I don't want to get in trouble even if the odds are really low to get caught... (and no, I am not implying that I am disclosing information)</p>

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<p>mathmatic - there wasn't a flaw, it was just tricky ;)</p>

<p>MC - Nothing I didn't know
FR - Only parts to a question on non-calc I didn't know</p>

<p>Yeah learning all of BC calc in a week!</p>

<p>free response sucked :(</p>

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mathmatic - there wasn't a flaw, it was just tricky </p>

<p>MC - Nothing I didn't know
FR - Only parts to a question on non-calc I didn't know</p>

<p>Yeah learning all of BC calc in a week!

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Did you really self-study that for only a week and do well on the exam? You must be a genius. I self-studied BC for two months and I didn't do as well as I should.</p>

<p>I thought it was okay. I defiately messed up FRQ 3 Part A, and a good bit of FRQ 6, but other than that it was pretty easy. I skipped one MC and guessed on one, but the others I was cool with.</p>

<p>MC no calc - terrible (I seriously didn't do like 11 questions in this section.)
MC calc - awesome (did all questions. This section was a joke.)
FRQ calc - ok (did all questions except the last one in question I and the first part of question 3)
FRQ no calc - awesome (did all questions. This section was a joke)</p>

<p>I just realized I made an arithmetic mistake in the last FRQ though. :(</p>

<p>MC was easy, FR was easy for the most part. I left 2 MC blank because I really couldn't figure them out, and I figured leaving 2 blank out of 45 wouldn't hurt my chances. The FR was pretty run of the mill, feel pretty confident that I'll get at least partial credit on everything, definitely feel much better coming out of this than I did coming out of AB...</p>

<p>FR was the killer. I think I answered about one third of the total. Last question killed me :(</p>

<p>All of the FR questions, except for #3, were really easy.</p>

<p>Calculator MC, easy. Non MC, difficult. FR hard in general for me for some reason. 1,2 okay, 3 not good because we didn't cover the topic in class. For 4 I didn't understand what they were asking in part a, then I realized. 5 good. 6, very bad. Very, very, very bad.</p>

<p>Conclusion: I'm bad at calculus...</p>

<p>i actually thought the calculator m/c was harder. i think i did OK. i was able to answer all of the free response but i make so many silly mistakes that i don't know if i got them right or not.</p>

<p>To ysk1:
The Princeton Review book gives a fairly straightforward summation of Calculus II concepts in about 40 pages of material. I started reading and practicing those sections (having taken AB Calculus in school) and felt very well prepared by it for the BC free-response. I had to pause a moment on 6b because it seemed simple enough that I wondered if I was missing something. 4 seemed very straightforward, 3 and 5 were tolerable if not lengthy.</p>

<p>The MC seemed easy for the most part though I skipped three total, and 2 was the only other FR I'm uncertain about, so hopefully I can keep above the 75-80 point mark (?).</p>

<p>Wow, I just realized a couple stupid mistakes I made in the FR section. On top of the ones I just had no clue about. Hate when that happens, now I have to worry about it for 3 months.</p>

<p>5 was the funnest question.</p>

<p>I thought all of the MC were really easy. There were a couple on the non-calc that I was initially unsure about, but I had a ton of time to go back and figure them out. Omitted none.
I though the FR was really pretty hard though. I've done tons of FR questions for the past 30 years or so, and I haven't seen a set of questions so difficult. However, I lost a lot of time on the first one...because I read the question wrong, which made the first 2 parts extremely difficult and the third part impossible. And stupidly I didn't go back and reread the very beginning of the question to catch my error, and I used a lot of time, which made all of the other problems seem harder since I was pressed for time. Hopefully I can get a few points of partial credit. Overall I'm pretty sure I got more than enough credit to get a 5 on the things I did know, but of course it's the things we don't know that we remember.</p>

<p>30 years? What?</p>