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Here is the latest information on the 2020 AP Calculus Exams as of April 3, 2020. Updated 4/29/2020 Update: A message from the AP Program 4/28/2020 Subject: How to Prepare Your Students for the 2020 AP Exams Dear Colleagues, Additional information is now available to help guide you and your students through the exam day experience.…
For updated information for the special 2020 exams click here. AP Questions Type 10: Sequences and Series (BC Only) The last BC question on the exams usually concerns sequences and series. The question may ask students to write a Taylor or Maclaurin series and to answer questions about it and its interval of convergence, or…
AP Questions Type 9: Polar Equations (BC Only) Ideally, as with parametric and vector functions, polar curves should be introduced and covered thoroughly in a pre-calculus course. Questions on the BC exams have been concerned only with calculus ideas related to polar curves. Students have not been asked to know the names of the various…
AP Questions Type 8: Parametric and Vector Equations (BC Only) The parametric/vector equation questions only concern motion in a plane. Other topics, such as dot product and cross product, are not tested. In the plane, the position of a moving object as a function of time, t, can be specified by a pair of parametric equations or the…
For updated information for the special 2020 exams click here. AP Questions Type 7: Other topics Any topic in the Course and Exam Description may be the subject of a free-response or multiple-choice question. The topics discussed here are not asked often enough to be classified as a type of their own. The topics listed here…
For updated information for the special 2020 exams click here. AP Questions Type 6: Differential Equations Differential equations are tested almost every year. The actual solving of the differential equation is usually the main part of the problem, but it is accompanied by a related question such as a slope field or a tangent line approximation.…
