<p>do u guyz think it's possible to solve the AP CALculus BC w/out a graphing calculator??</p>
<p>yes.......!!! lots of asian countries dont use calculator...in the high school!!!!</p>
<p>Good luck. Seriously. There are many multiple choice questions that are a pain without a calculator, e.g. messy integrals that ask to the thousandths place. You'd need it more on the MC than FR.</p>
<p>arg...</p>
<p>dnduswo, ur reply makes me relieve cuz i've attended a Korean high School, and did everything w/out a calculator. Also, i aced SAT2 Math2C w/out it as well.</p>
<p>but after reading who8mahrice's reply, i'm anxious again. the material dealt in SAT2 Math2C and AP Calculus in totally different, and i'm not confident to not make mistakes. </p>
<p>the reason i wrote this thread is cuz i don't have a graphic calculator. It's very hard to buy one in Korea, cuz as dnduswo said, we don't need them. Maybe they would be able to purchase in Seoul, but the city i live most probably won't have it. The only calculator i have is a scientific one w/out a graph screen. It won't be able to show me the graph, but i think it'll help me on lessening mistakes,</p>
<p>what do you guyz think??? will it be possible to take the AP Calculus w/ no problem with a calculator that doesn't have a graph screen???</p>
<p>jac0625 ,</p>
<p>U might want to use a scientific calculator. In India too Calcs are banned in High school anbd exams. Graphing calculator is not needed. U'll only need that for 1 graph q in the manual section...which i thinbk is solvable without a graphing calc.</p>
<p>Some of the questions are specifically designed to require a graphing calculator. The scientific calc is better than nothing, but you'll still be at a disadvantage. Then again, you'll do much better on the non-calculator section than most, if not all, of the US kids, so that might balance out. :)</p>
<p>Yea... for some problems you have to find the limits of integration and they would be 1.3543 and 4.2928 and there is no way that you can figure that out without graphing and using the zero function.</p>
<p>Also... it is necessary for some free response to use the fnINT function to calculate integrals because they will give you some integrals that are impossible to anti-differentiate by hand.</p>
<p>So a graphing calculator is absolutely necessary.</p>
<p>And some other questions would require you to draw a graph on a given interval, and the function would be really complicated. So without a graphing calc, it's pretty much unsolvable, but then that kind of question won't be worth that many points, so you should be ok.</p>
<p>Umm, try making the graph of a series...</p>
<p>It'll be hard, yes. But in the end, given the curve of the test and your Asian-background hs preparation in math, I'd say you're still looking at a 5.</p>