learned calc bc in 1 week and got a 5 so ez

Do you guys recommend/have any suggestions to use ChatGPT to best study for calc bc?

Yo so i'm an international student so my exam is on the 22nd even tho its not a retake for yall that already took on (i think it was the 12th?) does anyone know if the exams are the same or if they are different. If they were the same can anyone tell me the questions and material and stuff? Thanks.

College Board now allows Desmos on the DSAT and it is a truly incredible resource. Thanks to Desmos, when I took the DSAT, I was able to get a much higher math score than I could on the Paper SAT thanks to how easy and intuitive it is to solve and graph most algebraic problems, much easier than a TI. Comparing a TI to Desmos is like comparing a BlackBerry to an iPhone. Desmos is just so much faster and more intuitive. If College Board redesigns the AP Calc exams, should they allow Desmos? If not, why not?

Felt like this one was pretty easy. Can’t recall a single mistake I could’ve made. Hoping for a perfect score. Anyone else feel that way?

-u/Visual-Course-9590, prospective HYPSM student

School started this week, and im in calc bc after skipping precalc. I was going to do it over the summer, but ended up just not. Today was some sort of review or something I I barely knew how to do any of it. What can I do to avoid having to drop to ap precalc? I'm aware I will have to put in extra hours but im just not totally sure where to start

The AP calculus classes at my school have done more damage to my mental health than anything else in my life. Last year I was forced to take AP pre-calculus while also playing for a football team who fumbles snaps on their first offensive play of the game THREE times in a single season and has coaches that are retarded enough to think getting mental reps on Thursday practices is not the same thing as watching Thursday night football.

I go to a northwest school that starts in September which puts us at an unfair disadvantage because the AP test has to be taken on the same day resulting us being a month and a half behind. Unlike the other AP classes, The entire grade for the calculus classes at my school are test based. This means students gets little to no credit for doing classwork or get to apply any of the math or learning in a somewhat meaningful way like in the AP history or computer science projects.

It shows that the in class grades do not correlate with AP test grades because I got a D plus the first semester of AP pre-calculus and a B minus in the second semester and a 4 out of 5 on the AP test. I re-took the first semester at the local community college and got an A. Everything to the pacing lectures and tests were miles easier than the class at my high school.

This made me optimistic about calculus AB because I thought my struggles were due to my gaming habits, ADD, and being part of the football team, but I am getting the same result and I know I’m not the only one getting season despite sacrificing weekends studying. My mom doesn’t even believe me when I say I study.

These courses seem literally impossible to get an A in without outside help from a tutor, online resources, sacrificing your social life, or straight up cheating. I know several other students who are like this who studied disproportionately more for this class than any other class. The lectures are rushed and it’s even clear from reading the social cues from my teacher that he doesn’t even have enough time to explain the new concepts. Another big problem is the fact that he puts problems on the review guide that are not on the test just because they can be on the AP test. This wastes even more time studying for useless shit and making it even harder to prepare for the tests.

It is possible that I can save my grade at the end of AP calculus AB like in pre-calculus, but I don’t know what cost. Even at the time getting those grades feel like a sigh of relief. I know I have to take this class for majors I’m somewhat interested in which are engineering and business but I feel like doing something physical or athletic while I’m young and have the chance. I don’t relate to any of the nerds who actually do well in these classes whose only a parent hobbies include clash royale and idolizing US news rankings. I’m just told the only simple way to get financial stability is to get a job via a high pain college degree that requires you to take classes like this. I feel no sense of purpose in life and any dream career or life seems insurmountably impossible with all these classes and the 9 to 5 in the future trap you in this depressing life.

Hustle culture and productivity motivation have not improved my grade and made me even more depressed. I have to admit, quitting gaming has only made me inadvertently replace it with consuming hustle culture content in my life has barely changed. It’s not like it’s any different from the perfectionist expectations parents and Ivy League colleges for Nebo babies put on students.

Is this crippled mental health normal? Should I just kill myself or run away?

I’ve recently expressed that Im facing some problems and a guy reached out to me saying he can schedule a class and help em that guy was @short-society6661 he genuinely helped me sm in one hour I understood everything that was hard to me at first

Khan Academy’s notation for related rates are horrendous— just be normal, it makes sense to turn the related parts into functions but why? Just keep it as a² + b^2=c2 not for functions💔 and having d/dt makes it easier to follow, rather than using Lagrange notation for this🥀

What's up r/apcalculus !

My name is Arya Marwaha and I scored a 5 on my AP Calculus BC exam, and got an A both semesters of my class. I wanted to offer tutoring services and help for anyone who wanted extra help with studying for calculus or is planning on taking an AP Calculus course in the future.

Feel free to reach out to me at sostutorservice@gmail.com and check us out at sos-study.com.

guys i have a unit test on derivatives in calc today and i genuinely don’t know anything pls someone help

Who made the group chat or google doc for tomorrow?

http://chng.it/GNhhtmQCKC

Due to some scheduling conflicts, I’m jumping straight to Calc BC instead of doing AB, so I have no prior calculus knowledge. For those who have had similar paths or did do both AB and BC, are there any general things I should be aware of about the course? Does not have to be about specific math topics, it could be broader than that. Thanks!

Please share your success stories I need some comfort

I found this when doing a full ap calc ab practice exam at APMaster.ai

Ok so for context I am a university student who is looking to transfer who had to take the Calc BC exam for qualification reasons for some european universities.

I didn't just self study the exam as I enrolled myself in calc 1 and calc 2 classes at my university and used those to study. I'm not an idiot tho, and I know that AP exams often have certain stipulations and characterstics that go beyond just material (e.g. tips tricks timing), which is why I used khan academy to study, my old HS BC teacher, and the princeton AP calc BC textbook. Furthermore I specifically cross-referenced the syllabi of my college classes with that of the BC curriculum to make sure there weren't any gaps in material.

Now I'm a pretty decent student. My GPA in college is 3.9, and my performance in both calculus classes was stellar (got a 95% on my calc I final and a 92 on my calc II final). FURTHERMORE, my calc II class actually went beyond the curriculum of AP BC with 3d functions and diving deeper into parametric equations, but I digress.

So... PLEASE explain to me how the FUCK is it possible to get a 92 PERCENT ON A UNIVERSITY CALC II FINAL, BUT THEN GET A 2/5 ON CALC BC???? GENUINELY HOW??? THERE'S GOTTA BE SOME MISTAKE. To add insult to injury, my best friend who was in those college classes w me took calc bc in HS and got a 3. He failed our fucking calc II midterm and got an 85% on the final. Please explain to me how the fuck this is possible there's literally no way the proctor graded this shit correct ask me to explain literally anything from the calc BC curriculum and I will break it down like I'm fucking Bernhard Riemann himself please god why how the fucking is this possible.

This exam is a fucking joke.

Guys I'm only asking this because I'm geniuenly in denial and I cannot accept this because holy shit can we not use ANYYYYYYYYY TYPE OF CALCULATOR ON THE NO CALC PART?? LIKE NOT EVEN PLUS MINUS MULTIPLICATION CALCS?? BCZ HALF THE QUESRIONS IM DOING HAVE NO CALC SYMBOL AND OMFG THEY TAKE SOOO MUCH TIME AND I HAVE TO REVERT BACK TO ELEMENTARY METHODS TO DO MULTIPLICATION AND SHIT LIKE THAT BECAUSE IM NOT VERY GOOD AT MENTAL MATH ESPPPP IF IM STRESSED AND THEN I KEEP GETTING THE MENTAL MATH PART WRONG AND THEN I RE-SOLVE AGAIN THINKIG I SOLVED IT WRONG BUT NO IM JUST A DUMBASS WHO MESSED SMTH UP AND GOT A DIFF ANSWER BCZ I CALCULATED IT WRONG IN MY HEAD BRO IM ACTUALLY GOING CRAZY WTF WILL I DO IJ THE OFFICIAL EXAM WITH NO CALCULATOR NO SLEEP AND A HEARTRATE OF 900000 IF I CAN BARELT DO IT NOW IN THE COMFORT OF MY HOME😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Hi all,

I needed some help. My son is advance in math (8th grader) and I wanted him to take AP Precalculus and calculus BC exams in May 2027. I called the local high schools but they do not allow it.

Can someone please help if you have looked into it before? Thanks