<p>What is so hard about it? Majority of the students in my schools seem to have a hard time with it. What is so hard about it? I can differentiate, find integrals (just the anti derivative), implicitly differentiate,and what else do I need to know? What is so hard about it? It seems very straight forward for me. Trig functions are easy, so are log functions.</p>
<p>Those things are pretty easy individually, but can get pretty complex when combined.</p>
<p>I’m not good at math, and chain rule differentiation always gives me trouble, especially involving logs functions. Also, the algebraic simplification is insane.</p>
<p>And related rates are just impossible.</p>
<p>AP Calc depends on your teacher, based on a) how well he/she can actually teach and b) how insanely difficult he/she makes tests.</p>
<p>It’s bull**** when people go like “OMG AP CALC IS SO EASY ERGKEJRGERGH YOU GUYS SUCK”. Not everyone is insanely talented, and not everyone gets a passive AP Calc teacher.</p>
<p>Well, I had a this year that had no idea *** she was doing. Honestly, it was her first year teaching this subject and she had no clue how to do anything… All she did was copy the notes she got from another teacher and gave us tests made by other teachers… I got a C in the class. Considering the fact that the school emphasizes rote memorization over intuition, I expected that. But once I started teaching myself, I get everything -__- what a terrible schools system it is.</p>
<p>I thought the FRQs were the hardest of all in calc AB… I got how to do all of the stuff in the class but the FRQs really kinda threw me off because the questions were kinda hard to understand on what to do…</p>
<p>Regardless of its difficulty, AP Calc is blessed with an insanely high curve. Some 50% of BC takers and 20% of AB takers got a 5 last examination.</p>
<p>The only really hard concepts are finding volumes and related rates. Most everything else is pretty straightforward</p>