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Test is coming up soon, and I am afraid.

I always get 90+ on my math tests, but when I looked at the past AP exams, I have not done well.

If the test just gave equations, I can do it easily. But I hate it when they use real life applications in these questions, because I have no idea what to do.

I need a 4, at least.

My teacher said that everyone who takes the calc test in my school always got a 3+, but my classmates look at the past exams, and they have no idea how that happened.

I have been doing a lot better on the part IIs (doing much better than the mean), but the MC messes me up.

Any tips?

I was wondering, anyone who took the test last year (or the year before), was there related rates problems? Those are hard. And what topics mostly made up the part Is?

By Jayyy (Jayyy) on Monday, May 03, 2004 - 10:21 pm: Edit

Oh, and anyone have any good review sites? I especially need help with related rates.

By Thepiskickass (Thepiskickass) on Monday, May 03, 2004 - 11:44 pm: Edit

Related rates are always on there. From what I've heard. They're not hard, just tricky. You have to get your geometric formulas(pythagorean, spherical volume, etc) straight. Um... Does anyone know which prep book provides the most "realistic" tests? Is it PR Cracking or Arco? Because both are different. PR keeps testing on "need-to-memorize" integrals and the like. Arco is more straight forward. I'm panicking on this one. Lol.

By Link12 (Link12) on Tuesday, May 04, 2004 - 04:00 pm: Edit

PR is extremely accurate. Cliffs is very easy, I thought I would get a 5 from using that book, but I only got a 3.