Official AP Calculus Thread for 2009

<p>Wait, what tests did you all take? For my AB exam, FRQ, I got a region one and I was super confused how to do part B of it. I thought it was hard. MC I thought was very simple, but FRQ, some of them just killed me.</p>

<p>so any predictions on the curve for BC? Given the reaction in my room and what I’ve heard from other schools it seems like it ought to be relatively generous.</p>

<p>I agree with the most of you here. AB MC was definitely harder than the BC one. Last FR was disgusting…</p>

<p>Ah crap, just realized I made a stupid mistake on the area/volume stuff. REALLY stupid. <em>sigh</em>
At most, I’ll just get two points off.</p>

<p>A ton of people confused themselves over with the last FRQ…including me.</p>

<p>^^I don’t remember an area/volume problem?</p>

<p>I think the curve is going to be harsh… I hope it is generous though… <em>knock on wood</em></p>

<p>Took AB Calc Test.</p>

<p>Non Calculator MC- Great.
Calculator MC- TERRIBLE.
FRQs. Terrible.</p>

<p>How did everyone else do?</p>

<p>(Guessing I got a 3. :[)</p>

<p>I thought the last bc frq was some intense stuff lmao. The rest of the exam, however, I found was very straightforward. I ran a little short on time on the parametric frq, but other than that I thought it was easy.</p>

<p>^ Same as you, except I did fine on the FRQs (except the last one, lol).
I’m pretty sure I’m not getting a 5 (by roughly guessing what I got right)…might barely make it. Otherwise its a high 4-ish range for sure.</p>

<p>so did anyone write “why so serious?” I totally forgot about it…</p>

<p>I wrote “THIS IS SPARTA!” on my #6 free-reponse question :p</p>

<p>I didn’t think “why so serious?” is that funny…</p>

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<p>Don’t know why, but it was a complete opposite in my case :D. I couldn’t concentrate during the MC, so I didn’t do well on it. I found the calculator part confusing :-s. I kept turning the page to find a question that I felt comfortable to do. I was kind of short of time :(. For the FRQs, I did the non-calculator part better. But yeah, it was better than I thought :).</p>

<p>I was also surprised that I barely saw a volume problem on the test. The only volume problem that I could remember was a parametric one.</p>

<p>@user3725: Are you serious? lol</p>

<p>You had to use volume for the diver one?</p>

<p>no there wasnt any volume, area, or polar on the free response. the diver problem was just integrals and transfering parametric to rextangular and stuff.</p>

<p>There was no volume involved in the diver one…</p>

<p>that’s what I thought. vnese scared me…whew!</p>

<p>BC didn’t seem to test a lot of stuff

  • By parts
  • Partial fractions
  • Volume using disks/washers
  • Other stuff I can’t remember</p>

<p>Overall it was a decent test.</p>

<p>well there was parts on that big a** long answer box that took up a whole page.</p>

<p>Yeah, I was expecting a Volumes of Revolution question or a Related Rates Problem with some optimization as the AB/BC question. I knew and expected that there was going to be a Taylor Series one since it’s on there almost every single year and there almost always is some sort of parametric question. I thought there would be some logistic growth question or Newton’s law of heating/ cooling.</p>

<p>^ and there was.</p>