Re: AP Calculus
 

The multiple choice problems may be reused or VERY similar for 5 years. Then they are released. Thus, this year's multiple choice should be *completely new* since the last released version was in 1998. I just got out of my AP Physics exam and am way too tired... AP Chem tomorrow morning and I'm done!

Re: AP Calculus
 

AP Physics was rough rough rough rough rough. Did you take B or C and Mech or E&M or both? I did C MECH. When you get done with a 45 minute FR in 15 min because you have no idea...that's a problem.

Re: AP Calculus
 

You can talk about free response all you want..its just those Mult. choice

and yes i also thought 5 was rather difficult (a and b mostly)

Re: AP Calculus
 

Hahaha, I did the same thing on the same test :-D

And I hope the AP police aren't watching me, because they'll probably haul me off to collegeboard's jail :-D

Too bad I failed all my tests this year. Voiding my results would be a plus :-D

Cory

Re: AP Calculus
 

Wow physics c was def the hardest and most involved exam of the year by far (i took mech and e & m) the mechanics isnt the bad part, the e & m is much harder in my opinion and ill probably only get a 3 at most on that one haha. Calc BC didnt compare to phsycis c.

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Yeah...go AP Physics C.

I took both MEch and E&M. Mechanics wasnt too bad, but my whole class got killed on #2 and 3 on that E&M FR. Yikes. I just put my pencil down with 10 mins left after writing down random equations simply because I didnt know it. At all. Maybe I should have studied more instead of going to PARC...hmm.

Re: AP Calculus
 

I believe the college board also runs the SAT's. There is a big contraversy in one school district on Long Island because a tutor "accidently" used SAT questions that were not released. It turns out that they were on the same test people took. That is probably the same reason why they do not want anyone discussing any questions.

Re: AP Calculus
 

My entire calc class went over the free response questions today... it made me feel pretty stupid! I don't feel I did too well, hopefully I got some partial credit. Most of the questions were simple, I just approached them the wrong way. My calc teacher said the non-calculator part for the AB test was the easiest he's ever seen :confused:

Re: AP Calculus
 

You have got to be kidding me. If that's the case, our class must be the dumbest ever.

Cory

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I disagree, I thought the calculator portion was much easier than the non-calculator FR questions. The trick to most of those was knowing how to find derivatives and integrals on graphs, at least I think :p

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As far as AP tests re-using questions, they seem to. I was going over the review questions for my AP European History exam from the Princeton Review...and a few of the questions appeared identically on the multiple choice.

I'm sure it must be even worse with math/science classes, as it's a lot harder to come up with good math/science questions than history ones...

Re: AP Calculus
 

it's funny they made such a big deal over the multiple choice questions this year, because they are going to be released this year anyway. I think it's just habit on their part. Did anyone accedentaly start answering the survey questions on the multiple choice and the realized it wasn't part of the test? I wasted a little time doing that.

Re: AP Calculus
 

ugh... silly calc... my class had the option of taking either the BC or the AB (we do part of the BC as part of the regular AP calc ciriculum). Only problem was the rest of the BC is learned at Friday morning review sessions. And lots of robotics competitions were held on Friday mornings. As well as college visits. Long story short, I should have taken the BC, but I wasn't able to go to enough sessions to learn it well enough. So I took the AB (too bad my college next year accepts only the BC...)

The test itself I thought was fine. Then again, our teacher (he's insane, btw) has made us do just about every released question since about 1990 - everyone in the class had seen everything several times already, so we knew exactly what had to be done.

About the question releases, they don't want you discussing the questions because the AP tests are written in blocks of 3 years, give or take a year or two depending on the particular test. Each test block contains similar questions (read: they reuse questions in test blocks), so they don't want those getting out. After the next block of tests are written, the old tests are released with the graditing rubriks as booklets instructors can buy/photocopy for the class (hence the doing-every-single-problem-since-1990).


As for Phys C...

bwahahahahhahahaha

that e&m section was a whoops! if I ever saw one... my friend sent me this link to a website that had a bunch of videos of this stereotypical german physicist giving college e&m lectures. I spent all of this weekend watching them. And I thought I was learning. Nope!

The really annoying thing is coincidentally, these videos were from the e&m class at the same school I'm going to next year... you know, the school that doesn't give phys credit unless you get a 5 on both mechanics and e&m. In other words, the professor I got so aquainted with this entire weekend is going to be my physics professor next year :/

Re: AP Calculus
 

I took the Calculus AB exam.
The only person to take it this year from my school.
And I thought that test was hard...but from what other people have posted the physics and calc bc were harder.

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I took AB, and after having a teacher that doesnt know calc whatsoever...


Yeah, it was pretty bad. The multi-choice I thought wasnt too bad. I probobly got a good portion of that right. But those FR questions killed me.

I drew a total blank on how to revolve a base around y=2. soo stupid.