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<p>Anticipating perfect scores in all other sections?
If not, then that’s quite confident of you. Do you anticipate having amicable personal affiliations with the individuals who will be grading your exam?</p>
<p>^ I think it’s more due to the fact that the curve is so ridiculously generous. In all honesty, after today’s MC, I felt like I could have answered 2/6 of the FRQ for a 5.</p>
<p>^The curve is generous?!</p>
<p>I thought it was graded similarly to the Math I and Math II exams: the easier (AB) exam has a meaner curve than the harder (BC) exam.</p>
<p>Now I can convince myself that I’m not a complete failure at life after all.</p>
<p>Well, at least until the score reports arrive. :(</p>
<p>BC has an even more generous curve, but a conservative AB curve would be a 70/108 or so being a 5, which is ridiculous.</p>
<p>There’s gotta be a more generous curve than usual for this test… maybe as low as 60/108?</p>
<p>@ksarmand: The MC was unbelievably easy and I haven’t found any wrong answers yet, and I’ve already confirmed several perfect FRs. I’m pretty sure that I will get a 5.</p>
<p>^^ Why would it be more generous? Today’s test was easier than any of the previously administered tests that I took as practice</p>
<p>@Kironide: I do agree with you on the MC; it was quite simple. Kudos to you for the FRs; there were two that were just like :eek: for me.</p>
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<p>Lend me a few brain cells, would ya? The MC was easier. But the FRQs?</p>
<p>I’ve already posted this on another AP Calc thread but the FRQ were way easier than the one’s from previous administered tests.</p>
<p>One washer, one simplistic differential equation, no optimization, no related rates, no complex Riemann sums, no trigonometric derivatives or inverse trigonometric derivatives and no U substitution. Almost every FRQ was a verbose integral or derivative/second derivative question.</p>
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<p>Not seeing those things on the exam threw me off, since that’s what I was prepared to encounter. My mind did not fully adjust until after I had handed in the exam.</p>
<p>@ksarmand: Haha, everyone said that they found #6 hard. I really don’t see why … just a differential equation problem. I made some really idiotic mistakes though, like getting the wrong integrands for the volumes problem. I should’ve caught that… I made some other really stupid mistakes as well, but based on past curves, I should be well within the range for a 5.</p>
<p>It’s interesting, though, how I do so well on the hard problems but then I get really careless and make stupid mistakes.</p>
<p>Would the international exam be graded on a different scale since they are different questions?</p>
<p>@Kironide:
I actually did not find #6 to be hard. To me, it was the easiest one out of all the FRQs. Based on the curve, I’d say that I’m guaranteed a 2. A three may happen if my grader is feeling particularly generous.</p>
<p>@ Jersey13 hmmm I see, see I honestly wish it were rieman sumss…complex u substitution…or even trig stuff hahaha
I love trig and trig inverse derivatives and I don’t mind stuff like that
I thought the stuff on this exam was harder…I guess it just depends on what you like better and what you’ve had more experience with lol</p>
<p>and for those saying BC is so much harder…I’ve heard its easier (if you’ve learned the topics of course) because it isn’t any harder…just more topics
they don’t expect you to answer more questions in faster time haha there are just more topics. And the grade distributions always seem to be better on the BC exam than AB lol
So more people make 5’s on the BC exam than the AB is what I’ve heard (may not be completely true lol)
But what I’ve heard…is that the AB topics are harder on the AB exam…because that’s ALL that’s on it hahaha but on BC it’s not quite as crazy or hard but there are just lotttss of topics so it’s essentially “harder” but not really any more challenging granted you’ve learned the material
I wish our school had BC : P</p>
<p>anyone know if CB will post the FRQ and solutions online soon?!</p>
<p>FRQ questions are posted
<a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board;
<p>The scoring rubric won’t be released for a while.</p>