<p>Yes Sagar_Indurkhya is a genius.</p>
<p>He self-studied the BC material and is only in pre-calc. </p>
<p>Plus you learn more from self-study because you're actually taking the time to learn concepts yourself and can analyze it better.
With a teacher, sometimes he just gives stuff and you listen and take what he says, but don't fully understand the material.</p>
<p>So Sagar, did you use the 89 or 83?</p>
<p>Wow I really hated this test. I aced the multiple choice... but then came the free response. I personally feel this was the hardest free response section out of any of the previous years that I took for practice. (and I took a LOT of old tests) Maybe it is because polar is one of my weak points and I was nervous and thrown off during this section but I totally bombed it. I am hoping my awesome part 1 score will balance out my really bad part 2 score.</p>
<p>the last problem was one of the easiest on free reponse i forgot which one but something on the first section REALLY drained my time, and i missed the polar one which I really was looking forward do</p>
<p>Also, could you go back to the FRQ after handing in the non-calculator FRQ?</p>
<p>basically it goes like this:</p>
<p>you have 45 min to work w/ calculator and 1-3 FR</p>
<p>Then you have 45 min to work w/o calculator on 1-6 FR</p>
<p>Most people go to 4-6 during this time.</p>
<p>The multiple choice was incredibly easy. I'm going to leave room for stupid mistakes, but I still think I got a good majority of those correct.</p>
<p>The free response was just the opposite, in my opinion. Obviously there were parts of each question that were doable, but I didn't feel at all like I had a grasp on what I was answering, which sucks because I know that I have a pretty good knowledge of the subject. There's always a nice curve for BC, at least. All the past free responses seemed so much easier than what we had, those.</p>
<p>Damn.</p>
<p>I think I'm going to get a five. LIke 75% gets a 5 so I should definitely be one.</p>
<p>I thought oly 35%-40% gets five.</p>
<p>imiracle911 was talking about percentage of the raw score while Fran95 is probably talking about the percentile.</p>
<p>um... percentage right isn't 75 for 5... it's more like 65...</p>
<p>lol...this bc was the most conceptual test i've ever seen. only a handful of straight up equations...</p>
<p>i took a one year ab-bc course and if i didn't self-study from ap books i would've felt extremely underprepared. in our course we never did many applications of calculus through word problems.</p>
<p>multiple choice was incredibly easy compared to princeton review/thomsan & peterson's multiple choice i think i man handled 41 out of 45...</p>
<p>FR was a biatch...only did like 4/6 on that. </p>
<p>btw...for future ap calcers...i've looked through the princeton review, thomsan & peterson's, and sparknotes. </p>
<p>princeton review is easily the best for understanding concepts. but their problems are horribly easy. thomsan & peterson had the problems that were most similar to the test. sparknotes is really good for comprehensive review...</p>
<p>According to Collegeboard last year, top 40% of the scoreres received a 5, next 20% received a 4, and the next 20% a 3.</p>
<p>Anyways, I seriously walked out of that test thinking I got a 2. It was so hard and man that last night cramming didn't work at all. Screwed on the FR Polar and the one with the random list... I really want a 4</p>
<p>I don't get you people:</p>
<p>MC was a piece of cake... their are others who agree.</p>
<p>FR was EASIER than previous years. I mean, the calculator section was basically simple integration, and little bit of background knowledge.</p>
<p>And I self-studied. If you guys took the class, how can you say past FR was easier?</p>
<p>Yeah, multiple choice was definitely easy.</p>
<p>I think it's that backward knowledge on the FR that made it more difficult, though. It's not that it was nothing anybody couldn't do; but you kind of freak out when you see something unfamiliar, and then that leads to more freaking out with the next thing, and so on.</p>
<p>I don't see how the past FR aren't easier. They're a lot more straightforward (from the ones I've seen, at least).</p>
<p>Multiple choice was pretty easy....Free Response #1 on first section and #1 on section section were pretty easy...rest of it was hard as crap!</p>
<p>i'm just glad it's over. no more thinking about calculus. onwards to literature!</p>
<p>CRAP! I just realized I got the last question of the first FRQ wrong because I forgot to sqaure the radius... ohhh crap... nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo</p>
<p>yeah so who else cant wait till we can discuss the FRQs?</p>
<p>ego check sagar! Lol brother, MC was easy too however, I would restrain from speaking too much about the exam until 8 AM Thursday morning. Then I am sure the forums will explode. </p>
<p>Alright from the 2003 Past Exam booklet I have:</p>
<p>5: 64-108. MC score multiplied by 1.2 to get a MC score. I'd say if you scored somewhere around 30 (assuming everything else you answered was incorrect = -0.25), I'd say you are SAFE for a FIVE. Remember, 40% of test writers achieve a score of 5: Remain POSITIVE and MOVE ON WITH OTHER THINGS in life.</p>
<p>Likewise: Free Response Questions are marked 9 marks per questions 1-6 (6 * 9 = 54) and are assessed based on correct answers, and the correct knowledge applied to the work. That said, writing down random stuff won't work in your favour; you must know what you're writing about and I assume a good portion of your free responses would be something like that. Get 30 (average 5 per question; that's like a LOT wrong = 2 parts blank/question on 4 parts) and yeah, you're safe.</p>
<p>Kick some butt guys.</p>
<p>What's ironic about this is that EVERYBODY at my school was talking about how we expected a very small curve and we all thought that an 80% was gonna be the cutoff for 5's cause we all thought it was easy. I think I got EVERY free response and I finished the calculator MC with 30 minuets to go (triple checked everything). For the Non-Calculator, a couple series questoins got me, but I found it to be a very easy test.</p>
<p>And i'm happy that the Calc is over cause now I can do Chem and Bio. Fun stuff.</p>
<p>and
"lol...this bc was the most conceptual test i've ever seen. only a handful of straight up equations..."</p>
<p>I agree - I noticed that too. It seemed like they wanted to check that you UNDERSTOOD the actual ideas.</p>
<p>yeah all those guys wanted was knowledge of concepts. other exams have had the tricky integrals- this exam just tested concepts.</p>
<p>ha, Gaylor Series. lol</p>