<p>@SlashDojo
Watch all of these videos and study the Princeton Review book. Do as many practice tests you can get your hands on, and do all the FRQs posted on the College Board website. But my advice is tainted to say the least, I tried to self-study but ended up with a 4. Make sure you start early.</p>
<p>@SlashDojo </p>
<p>Watch the calculus-based lectures on flippingphysics.com (or just search thomaspalmerphysics on youtube).</p>
<p>I had a teacher who taught almost nothing and essentially had to self study with this. Got a 5 :D</p>
<p>5 Mechanics, 4 E and M. does it look bad that I got a 4 on E and M? I would like to consider myself elite at physics, but that 4 is bothering me ! </p>
<p>@tomisawesome
Same here! I got a 5 in Mechanics last year, and a 4 on E&M this year (after self-studying). Maybe we’re not as good in physics as we thought. Despite what others will tell you, you and I both know a 4 on a Physics C exam is a low score, so it does look bad. However, at least you challenged yourself. Did you self-study or take a class?</p>
<p>@Shutterstock
@tomisawesome
A 4 on E&M is not a low score. Remember that even though a high (30%+) amount of test taker get 5s, there are only around 20,000 people taking it in any given year. That’s less than just the number of people who get 5s on other exams. This means that everyone taking the exam is likely to be exceptional, and that is only reason that the average score is so high. A 4 is still a very respectable score and will not be looked down on.</p>
<p>I took a class but we only started e and m in april! so we had a month and 10 days to learn everything! (my teacher spent 5 weeks in the beginning doing advanced chemistry for some dumb reason) </p>
<p>hey also a girl from my school who went to MIT last year only got a 4 on e and m and she is going for electrical engineering so It’s fine! I didn’t study as much as I should have and was perhaps too cocky </p>
<p>5 on both.
I started self studying EM at the beginning of the year, and finished by winter break, and studied mechanics over the summer. Doing practice f=ma tests is good for harder mechanics MC questions, and doing free response helped keep me sharp after I had finished studying. Definitely give yourself a lot of time to make sure you are comfortable with the material.</p>
<p>@Shutterstock @Matt846
Thanks guys really appreciate the tips.</p>
<p>@420goon You self taught yourself calculus based physics? That’s really impressive, you certainly do not live up to your username 
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<p>5’s on both.
On mechanics I got about 3 multiple choice questions incorrect, and i lost about 5-7 points on the frq because I did the moment of inertia incorrectly (oops).</p>
<p>On e&m I got about 5 questions wrong on the objective portion and lost about 2 points on the FRQ.</p>
<p>Anyone know where i can find the curve?</p>
<p>@doldrum it wasn’t released for this year but generally around 55% on e&m and low 60s on mech is a 5</p>
<p>oh okay, thanks.
Just want to know how many perfects are there this year (whom i envy )</p>
<p>@doldrum
There was 1 student who received a perfect on Mech and 1 student who received a perfect on E&M</p>
<p>source <a href=“2014 AP Exam Score Distributions”>2014 AP Exam Score Distributions; (info taken from AP trevor’s twitter)</p>
<p>Hey, do you guys think it’s possible to take Physics C without prior Calculus? I will be doing Calc AB this upcoming school year, but I wanted to do Physics C at the same time. I went online, and I know the basics of derivatives, indefinite integrals, etc. Should I be good if I self-study some Calc ahead? Thanks.</p>
<p>@Newdle
You don’t need to self study calculus. You only do a little calculus in deriving formulas and even then the calculus is very basic that it can be taught in a week or two during the physics class.</p>
<p>@jimmyboy23 Okay, awesome. My school usually has kids do Calc AB before doing Physics C (we offer Physics C mechanics and e/m separately). They’d be enrolled in BC concurrently wish Physics C, but I’d still be in AB. I’m thinking about enrolling in Physics C, but I literally just taught myself basic integration and differentiation with khan academy yesterday, so I’ll think about it :)!</p>
<p>Here’s almost all the calculus you will need:
A good foundation in limits (What they are and how they define derivatives)
Power rule (derivative of polynomials) and derivatives of trig functions
Definite integral of polynomials</p>
<p>This may be like 2-3 hours of videos on khanacademy everything else is extra.</p>
<p>@jimmyboy23 I don’t like to leave people hanging, so I’ll just update you on what’s up. Sadly, I won’t be doing BC. My school has a big obsession with precedented requests, and I’m stuck in a Chemistry course I managed to self-study in 3 months (I know more than the class teaches, too). I hate whining, but mehhh :(! I might study Physics 1 this year, but I guess I’ll just wait to take Physics C next year. Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>P.S.
I managed to cover all the topics you listed, but they still didn’t let me D:! Thanks for your help, though :)!</p>
<p>Taking BC concurrently with physics over here 
my teacher gives us insanely difficult integrals (the one I’m struggling over now is like arcsin(lnx))…everyone on here is saying the calc in physics c is easy, but what he’s giving us is really difficult for me. Do any of y’all do these crazy trig/log/e^x integrals and derivatives in your class?
I really hope he’s just going overboard with calc, cuz I’m getting really nervous…</p>