Am I the only one who thought the non calc multiple choice was really hard?
What form did you have if any? I had G, and it was relatively straightfoward and thats coming from a person who is not doing so hot in calc atm.
@xslash3dx yea agree with you on all parts - I too got rekt on the FRQ’s. Form G sounds like it was harder…
The free response for the most part was easy and straightforward. The multiple choice part destroyed my grade. I had form O btw.
Do you think the curve this year will be more lenient than it already is? My BC exam today was definitely more difficult than any of the past exams I’ve used to practice with… Are they just making it harder to get a 5?
I think I’m on the bubble between a 4 and a 5… maybe they’ll change the score curve.
I couldn’t do simple math…it was pretty pathetic. For several questions on the mc, I knew what I had to do but I must’ve made some really stupid basic adding/subtracting mistakes so I couldn’t find the answer. The FRQ was alright, except for a couple parts of a couple questions.
Well that test was death! I am pretty certain I am getting a 1. The sad part is that I have As in class. -_-
@bluecatch Don’t see how that’s sad. Your teacher must have been really lenient.
is the curve for a 5 usually 65%?
My school teaches the college version not the AP version of the test.
That test’s FRQ was so freaking hard for me.
The MC was alright (except for the calculator portion which was hell).
What do you need for a 4-5?
@canunot @rdeng2614 I’ve read that it can range from a 60-70% depending on the test… The FRQ were the hardest ones I’ve seen before. I feel like I might have gotten right below a 60 which sucks because that’s the 4 to 5 cutoff
@Frigidcold He wasn’t really lenient but his test questions were pretty straight forward. AP words things weird and uses the hardest examples to test different concepts.
I guess I did poorly mainly though because I forgot most stuff I learned right after each exam because we never used it again.
You can go to page seven on this site to see the average cutoffs without the MC deduction. http://www.skylit.com/calculus/Ch1-AboutExam.pdf
And then you can go to this site to estimate your ap score.
http://aphaven.com/haven/ap-calculus/calculator
Be sure to click on 2008BC curve at the bottom.
@Oblivion96 But aren’t the curves and everything different this year because of the different forms, no penalizations for guessing, etc.?
I had form O. I thought non-calc MC was an absolute joke, but calc MC had some tricky questions that I had to end up guessing on. The first 4 frqs were easy, but the last two were pretty unconventional in my opinion so I’m guessing I got like 4/5 on those. Does anyone who had form O remember this impossible separation of variables frq problem? I was stuck on that one forever :/. Also, I crossed my fingers before the test that there wouldn’t be a slope field question and guess what shows up :(. I’m expecting a really really low 5…so I hope the curve is not too high this year.
even though the last 2 are worth 5 points, the frqs are all weighed equally right? i had form o as well and hated the differential eq problem
Every single frq is out of 9 points, they are all weighted equally. The differential equations one was really dumb, I wish they gave us a standard equation instead of making us scratch are heads over what to do.
yeah…couldnt separate it. i ended up doing bs math on the second part of that problem
The differential equation question did not require separation of variables.