<p>i agree that the mc was a breeze but the frq was pretty difficult.
however i felt the opposite from many of you about which frqs were hard. i weirdly had a lot of trouble with number 1. i think i overthought it or something. 2-4 were okayyy with some weird parts here and there, i spent forever on 5c but couldnt get it for some reason, and 6 was probably my best.
most people thought 1 was a breeze though so i dont know what i was thinking there T__T</p>
<p>its like everything i didn’t study for went on that test. all my weak points as well.</p>
<p>I just want a 3, i don’t care about the credits, i just don’t want to take a placement test for college, i’ll be happy taking introductory calc again.</p>
<p>@whodareswin - Cruel is DEFINITELY the word. Those were HARD! And I actually like calculus.</p>
<p>@gardenofpotter - LOL. I don’t have an 89. I’ve seen them, attempted to use them, but they seem too complicated :P</p>
<p>Although the calculator ones and #1 non-calculator weren’t so hard. As for MC, I thought non-calculator was okay, had to guess on some questions, and that the calculator questions were just easy.</p>
<p>I thought that the noncalculator MC was the hardest. The frqs were doable besides the part c of the 6.
But if I scribbled a lot of stuff on my frqs, they won’t care. Even if it’s kind of messy? Cause I have my answer in the box</p>
<p>Both calculator and non-calculator portions I felt were pretty easy, but I derp’d hard on most of the FRQ.</p>
<p>Do you guys think the curve will be sorta generous this year?</p>
<p>There was maybe 70 kids taking it in my school today and it was just hysterical seeing everyones’ heads down after 5 minutes into each free response section. We were so unprepared. Whoever wasn’t asleep was looking around the room at each other and laughing.
That. Bad.</p>
<p>^ I heard a rumor that AP curves are formulated before the student performances are reviewed. Is that true? That would be really frustrating because College Board could easily have underestimated the difficulty of some of the FRQs</p>
<p>Everyone’s talking about how bad the arithmetic was but I was under the impression that we didn’t have to simplify anything…for example, do they take off points if you leave things such as sin(2) or ln(2) in the answer?? Or if tangent lines are in point-slope form? I’m freaking out now…</p>
<p>^the exam instructions said you don’t have to simplify, it just can’t be in calculator notation</p>
<p>@nhartmann10:
It’s impossible. It just doesn’t work that way. CB first grades all the exams. Then they want to get that even distribution of scores. Like 12% 5’s, 20% 4’s, and whatever the other percents are. So they adjust the cutoff accordingly to match that. This is the only fair way to do it.</p>
<p>@Everyone else 
I didn’t think it was that bad. The non-calc MC was harder than any previous years. The calc MC was decent. For some reason, I didn’t think that the FRQ were that hard. Granted I did guess on some parts, but I think I knew most of it. I attribute my good score on the FRQ to a secret that I will reveal here in about 2 days time, so stay tuned! I’m really glad this worked out for me though! :D</p>
<p>^^ PM me too! :P</p>
<p>Haha sorry guys but I know that CB has access to the PM’s that we send, and I don’t want to get in trouble. I heard that some kid had his IP address traced and his exam canceled. So I’ll play it safe and wait the 2 days. I will say this though. I woke up at 5 a.m. to do this, and I’m so glad I did! ;)</p>
<p>The noncalc MC was time-intensive. I usually finish with ~5 minutes to spare on the practice tests I took, but this time I had to guess on 5 questions.</p>
<p>Calculator MC was a joke. Finished with 15 minutes left, doublechecked every single answer, will be surprised if I got a single one wrong.</p>
<p>I thought that the FRQs were generally very easy if you understood how to use the Fundamental Theorem. There was some tricky arithmetic on the last problem, but that’s pretty much it.</p>
<p>Overview of how my AP Calculus AB exam went today:</p>
<p>Section I, Non-Calculator: Breezed through the questions. They seemed relatively easy for me because I particularly studied more on non-calculator questions, but I could see the extent of their difficulty and could see how they could be considered rather challenging. I believe I guessed on no more than 4. </p>
<p>Section I, Calculator: These questions seemed pretty tough to me in comparison to previous practice exams I’ve been taking. I managed to get confident answers on 12 of them; 3 I had to choose between one of two choices, and 2 I completely guessed because I didn’t have enough time remaining to do all the work. </p>
<p>Section II, Calculator: What in the world am I looking at here? The two questions seemed SO familiar and I felt like I should have had a really easy time with them, but I ended up spending so much time trying to figure out one of the parts on #1 that I didn’t leave enough time to work on #2 with the calculator. </p>
<p>Section II, Non-Calculator: As soon as I saw #3 I thought that the rest of the exam was going to be super easy. I continued onto #4 with confidence, and then I looked at #5. “What the **** is this?” I can look back at myself just staring blankly at the page for a full 5 minutes trying to figure out what I was exactly looking at. I decided to skip it in hopes of #6 being any easier, but it looked almost as challenging. I worked through #6 until there was only 10 minutes left, and spent most of that remaining time trying to work through #2 without a calculator (and managed to do so until part d). With 5 minutes left I just continued to stare at #5, and it wasn’t until then that I realized what to do. I only got through part a due to poor time management. </p>
<p>I think I got either a very strong 3 or a solid 4 on the exam, depending on how they end up curving it, and depending on just how well I did on the questions I feel I answered with confidence.</p>
<p>Since we can’t go over the questions in complete context, I don’t really want to go into depth on how to go about #5. However, I will say that it takes a lot of calculations to go through.</p>
<p>Overall I think this test was extremely difficult, and that if there hadn’t been the changed rule for being able to freely guess answers on the multiple choice section I would have done a lot poorly.</p>
<p>so if they modify the curve so its more generous, will they give more than 1 point for each FRQ multiplier? or would it be towards the MC, instead of 1.2, it would be higher? I think i did really badly on MC and FR really wasn’t that bad…but that’s given cause i’ve done like 10 FR tests.</p>
<p>bioboy - college board cannot read the PM’s…</p>
<p>@NspiredOne:
If I’m not mistaken, I think that the FRQ doesn’t have a multiplier. But I always thought that they didn’t change the multiplier. I think that a curve means they change the cutoff for a 5.</p>
<p>@Halloimzack:
Wow I feel dumb now! 
I meant to say College Confidential, not CB…</p>
<p>ahhhh okay… either way, i think it amounts to the same?</p>
<p>No, CC doesn’t spies upon you and CC never sells your PMs to College Board either. There is no harm in PMing anyway as thousands of users on this site are PMing each other back and forth every minute. I doubt they will “pick” upon you and report you just to prove that CB tames them (which is very unrealistic)!</p>