The Calculus BC Thread (No AB'ers)

<p>I BOMBED that test for the simple reason that I crammed all last night and while I knew everything my mind was working at a snail's pace.</p>

<p>I probably got like 38/55 questions on the MC and for the FR (OMG) I skipped two whole questions and got probably 1/2 to 3/4 on all the others.</p>

<p>Polar Equations, Taylor Series (W T F!!)</p>

<p>I know, what...the...hell. I mean, question 6 part 3 killed me. I sat there staring at question 2 for about 15 whole minutes, just...shocked. I think my math career is over. Wow. We probably shouldn't discuss the topics in detail or anything though. We don't want our 1's revoked, you know. Well, I guess I speak for myself. Most of you are very able. I'm just still floored. I don't even think I did well on the AB FRQ's. Gah...</p>

<p>Here's hoping for an even nicer curve!</p>

<p>There were 45 questions, so if you got 38 that would be good. If you got a 28, that definitely wouldn't be good. Sounds like a 2/3 score.</p>

<p>I think I might have gotten all points on the free response. I ommitted 3 MC, though.</p>

<p>Not nearly as hard as I was expecting.</p>

<p>killed by stupid polar stuff</p>

<p>Getting all the points on FR would be amazing. But they always find ways to take off points for not doing it the way THEY want it to be done.</p>

<p>ouch ouch ouch...</p>

<p>or not wording your explanation in the exact way because, after all, you have ESP don't you?</p>

<p>The non-calculator MC part was fine. Simple and straight-forward.</p>

<p>The calculator MC part was hard but manageable.</p>

<p>The calculator free-response. I looked at question 2 and gave up, lost track of time.</p>

<p>The last free-reponse questions were alright excempt for Taylor polynomials. </p>

<p>BUT WHAT IS ETS THINKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

<p>With every AP Test I take I like getting the first few right and carrying the momentum onwards. There was absolutely no momnetum to be found here. I BLANKED OUT.</p>

<p>Taylor was always supposed to be on there. That was to be expected.</p>

<p>Polar was a surprise, although not HORRIBLE in my opinion, definately unpleasant surprise. </p>

<p>Time was important for the first time ever which sucked because I was expecting less stress but I went til the end for every part. Explaining things was the most annoying part because it took the longest. Other than that, I filled in everything so hopefully a lot of partial credit if I didn't get the whole gist of it.</p>

<p>Overall, seeing a lot of the reactions, I'm sure that we did better score wise than we thought.</p>

<p>They could have atleast used lube...:(</p>

<p>ROFLz I agree. Gah...</p>

<p>at least I'd glad that people's reactions are similar to mine
and my teacher alwaysd told us fr is where u can get the most points because of partical credit, can't get partial credit if you can't do the problem haha</p>

<p>damn.
damn.
damn.
damn.
damn.</p>

<p>a polar free response.....yeah im pretty speechless.</p>

<p>The BC Calculus Massacre of 2005.</p>

<p>Yes. damn indeed. Free response was...awful, just awful. I wrote down something for every free response but a large portion of it was meaningless crap from the mind of a scared and desperate 16-year old who doesn't understand why ETS sold its soul to the devil merely for the fun of torturing poor, confused students.</p>

<p>Didn't think the test was that horrible</p>

<p>Multiple choices were easy and fairly straightfoward, but some of the Part IIs non-caculator threw me for a loop.</p>

<p>I didn't think there were any surprises....believe me, if you were forced to do like every released AP MC and FR question since 1973 by your teacher starting 2 months before the test, nothing would surprise you.</p>

<p>But nonetheless, there will probably be a generous curve....I hope.</p>

<p>Overall it was okay, but I almost ran out of time for Section I multiple choice part i.</p>

<p>Always, for one of the tagent and parametric equations in Section I part I I got two answers that were both in the choices. Anybody else get this ? Should I report it?</p>

<p>trust me man, it may seem like there are two answers or no answers...but there is one right answer. its very rare that they make a mistake on the examination</p>

<p>well i thought the test was quite easy. But my BC teacher is amazing so it helped. Polar Question was very easy IMO and the Taylor Series was SOOOOOOO EASY. I mean they gave you F^(n) for every even value, every odd term was zero, centered at x=2, first term was 7. Bottom line is that it might have been confusing wording wise but if you know Taylor Polys, it was much easier than say last years. The first set of MC was the hardest and everything else after that was easy. Hope the curve is nice</p>