old Ap Calc tests

[leemaj]

hey..i need to know where i can find old AP Calculus tests. we are having a final in calc, and it will be made up of old tests. The problems are from the tests made from where calculators were not allowed on the multiple choice, and the question format was 45 multiple choice in 90 minutes. any ideas? thanks

[Hopper1]

45 questions multiple choice should be easy. Just open the book and do some studying. You shouldn't need any old tests.

[Ladogaboy]

Originally posted by leemaj
hey..i need to know where i can find old AP Calculus tests. we are having a final in calc, and it will be made up of old tests. The problems are from the tests made from where calculators were not allowed on the multiple choice, and the question format was 45 multiple choice in 90 minutes. any ideas? thanks

Cheater! Cheater!!! :P

[leemaj]

well, i studied, and it wasnt that bad...so i guess i didnt need the test after all...physics though...oh man

[Kevster]

Physics? I had 2 1/2 YEARS of physics in Engineering School. I don't want to hear it.

It does however remind me of a Communications Systems II final that I took. It was optional and I had a B- going into the final. I didn't want to settle like everyone else in the class did (I was the only person who took the final out of a class of 42).

The test was like this: 4 problems, open book/open notes, 2 hours.

While I was studying I decided to look at the old test solutions that were put in the library check-out desk for review. It turns out the professor had left a lot of test solutions for the class, some almost 3 years old. I looked at the problems and worked on them and compared my solutions to the ones done by the professor (It's not all about just studing for the course, but about studying the professor and how he asks questions too). I made copies of these solutions and put them in my notes for review.

On the day of the final exam, I met with my instructor (a really cool older Taiwanese gentleman named Tai-Wu Kao - he did a lot of space systems work for JPL before he decided to teach full time) and he showed me the test and took me over to a small room with a nice big desk to take the exam.

He told me he would be in his office should I have any questions. As soon as he left I open the final exam booklet and notice the problems look a little familiar. I suddenly realize he was giving me the SAME questions that he did two years ago for a 2nd midterm! The midterm had 3 questions on it and there were 4 questions on the test, so I immediately started working on the question that I didn't already have a solution for. After I finished the question (took me 30 minutes or so - very intensive math solution along with a detailed block diagram of the communication system requested) I started on the other solutions. I carefully wrote out and reviewed each solution and when I was ready, I went back to my professor with my final exam. I wasn't cheating - I did all those problems myself in studying and it was an open book/open notes exam. What can I say? Some professors get a little lazy.

I told him I would be around later and he was very happy that I finished - he told me he should have it corrected in a little while.

I went to see him about 90 minutes later and he was ecstatic - he told me I had done very well - 94%! I starte dto look at the exam that he handed back to me and I saw that the problem I had to work on my own got full credit - he marked part of his own solution wrong! (He said he thought I left something out - I wasn't about to go and say "well your solution from 2 years ago shows this...")

He was so happy that I didn't go with the rest of the herd and just cruise out of the class with the B-. He told me that if I work in life the way I did for his final, I will be a very successful engineer.

And you know something? He was right. :D

Kevster