The Aftermath of the 2010 Calculus AB Exam

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<p>I'm an international student, and I came back from testing a while ago. Wasn't really a hard test in my opinion.. I just thought the FRQ section was a bit harder than usual. </p>

<p>I thought that the multiple choice questions were of similar difficulty to the past released exams (2008, 2003...); that is, they weren't exceptionally difficult this year. So if you used any past exams for practice and did fine on them, you should be fine on the real thing.</p>

<p>As for the FRQ sections (form B), I thought they were a bit tougher than past years. If you practiced well though, you should be fine.</p>

<p>Did anybody else here take the test? What's your opinion? In two days, we get to discuss the FRQs. </p>

<p>Good luck people!</p>

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<p>I am also an international student and took the BC exam. The multiple choice section was a bit hard either due to my lack of sleep or competence, but the free response section was insanely easy. CollegeBoard must be mad…? or perhaps is it just that I prepared well for the exam…</p>

<p>All Calculus students are seniors except me, who is taking BC from self study and my friend, who is technically a senior cuz he repeated his junior year.</p>

<p>The condition of the testing room was one of hell. The story is that our school, which is the test center, and the adjacent college share the same outdoor soccer field and people from the college held a rowdy festival, creating a lot of unwelcomed noises and music. Hey, at least that’s the same effect of plugging your earphones into your ears. Our school has had AB and BC exams administered in the same room, so I got to see some of the seniors who had been suffering from the distraction. XP.</p>

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<p>Ugh yeah I hate when that happens. I also hate it when two or three proctors just decide to start talking about some random stuff in a loud voice… Or when some of them comes to look at you when solving… You just can’t solve for some reason lol.</p>

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<p>Haha Ben what happened to getting a good night’s sleep? :P</p>

<p>As an international student, I thought the multiple questions were a tad difficult but the FRQ was veerry easy. One of the questions was extremely similar to an FRQ question from the 2008 audit exam that my teacher gave us.</p>

<p>My entire class took AB, with the exception of me and a friend that self-studied the BC portion of the exam. (I have to say one of the FRQ was… ehh. Just wrote everything I knew about series till I hit something right haha).</p>

<p>I’m hoping for a 5 (I’m not sure how the subscore works so I can’t say for sure) but I’m expecting a 4.</p>

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<p>I found the MC really easy, didn’t miss any questions and am fairly confident. I don’t think I did as well on the FRQs as I could have…kinda blanked out on a few questions even though they were all questions I’ve seen before =( I ran out of time on the calculator portion so I went back and did the left-over question without a calculator–came out as this really messy and ugly unsimplified thing T_T haha
oh well, going to college anyways :D</p>

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<p>Good thing I’m not the only one who found the FRQs hard… I just can’t wait until the 48 hours are up!</p>

<p>Oh and apparently there was like two forms of MCQs? Not exactly different forms, just mixed questions… Right?</p>

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<p>lmao thanks lol</p>

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<p>can we ask about certain FRQ questions on here or no?</p>

<p>didnt think it was bad at all (AB) skipped 2 on calc section and wrecked the free response i think i have a question on one part of one though</p>

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<p>The last two AB FRQs were harder than I expected. I got very ugly answers for them, but I triple-checked them and they worked out.</p>

<p>The multiple choice was easy.</p>

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<p>I left like two blank the the calculator MC, and overall, maybe made educated guesses on 2-4 more. Besides that, I’m fairly confident I got most of the others ok.</p>

<p>I thought the FRQ’s were harder than usual…I ran out of time to do the last part of the last problem…and I wasn’t sure about a couple of parts from other problems as well.</p>

<p>I still think I got a 5 though…whats the curve, anyone have any idea?</p>

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<p>Yeah I thought the last FRQ was ■■■■■■■■. Also there was this question where you had to graph the function and it had many many points were it intersected the x-axis, right? I won’t go into much detail now.</p>

<p>About the curve, it should be about 65-75 for a five. Let’s hope it’s good!</p>

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<p>I completely screwed up on the amusement park one on the AB test. Ugh.</p>

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<p>Same ^</p>

<p>I ran out of time and then by the time I got enough time left to get back to it on the time allotted for 4-6, I just couldn’t do it right.</p>

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<p>Whoever grades my amusement park one is gonna be mad lol erased so much, but I’m pretty sure I ended getting a 9 on that one lol. I was indecisive on i think part a of that one.</p>

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<p>How many points needed to get a 4 do you guys think? And what do they multiply each free response by to get your Section II score?</p>

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<p>The free responses are untouched. They add up to 54. The MC is out of 45, so they multiply that by 1.22222.</p>

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<p>Im thinking somewhere around a 48 or so for a 4, especially with the last FRQ or 2. Hopefully I got in the 50’s range.</p>

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<p>Keasbey, don’t they also add a scale to the test if a lot of the students got a certain FRQ wrong by a lot. Like if the national average is around a 1/9 I think they would scale it.</p>

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<p>They just make the amount of points needed for a 5 lower.</p>

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<p>Oh, so they don’t change it at all for the rest? Say if they move the points down for a 5 by 5 points, they wouldn’t do the same to get a 4?</p>