Advanced Placement Calculus, (also known as AP Calculus or AP Calc), is the name of two distinct Advanced Placement courses and examinations offered by the College Board, AP Calculus AB and AP Calculus BC. This course usually is recommended for those students who are thinking about a math-related degree once in college. Image File history File links Advanced_Placement_logo. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Each May, participating Canadian, American, and some international educational institutions offer the Advanced Placement examinations, the natural focal point of the Advanced Placement program. ... The CollegeBoard offers several awards to students who take AP exams. ... The Advanced Placement Program, commonly known as Advanced Placement, or AP, is a United States and Canada-based program that offers high school students the opportunity to receive university credit for their work during high school. ... 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AP Calculus AB

AP Calculus AB is an advanced placement calculus exam taken by some United States high school students. It comes after Precalculus, which is known as Introduction to Analysis in some places, and is the first calculus course offered at most schools. An AP Calculus AB course is typically equivalent to one semester of college calculus. The material includes limits, differentiation, integration, applications of the previous, and other topics covered in standard college calculus courses. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Calculus (from Latin, counting stone) is a major area in mathematics with further widespread applications in science and engineering used to solve more complex and expansive problems which cannot be solved by algebra alone. ... In mathematics education, pre-calculus, in reality just advanced secondary school algebra, is a foundational mathematical discipline. ... Calculus (from Latin, counting stone) is a major area in mathematics with further widespread applications in science and engineering used to solve more complex and expansive problems which cannot be solved by algebra alone. ... Wikibooks Calculus has a page on the topic of Limits In mathematics, the concept of a limit is used to describe the behavior of a function as its argument either gets close to some point, or as it becomes arbitrarily large; or the behavior of a sequences elements, as... In mathematics, the derivative of a function is one of the two central concepts of calculus. ... In calculus, the integral of a function is an extension of the concept of a sum. ...

AP Calculus BC

AP Calculus BC includes all of the topics in AP Calculus AB, as well as convergence tests for series, Taylor and/or Maclaurin series, parametric, vector, polar functions, and curve length. In addition, L'Hôpital's rule, improper integrals, and using partial fractions to integrate rational functions are commonly taught in this course. Students in AP Calculus BC generally receive two semesters of Advanced Placement in mathematics. In mathematics, convergence tests are methods, how to determinate if a series converges or diverges. ... As the degree of the Taylor series rises, it approaches the correct function. ... As the degree of the taylor series rises, it approaches the correct function. ... Graph of a butterfly curve, a parametric equation discovered by Temple H. Fay In mathematics, a parametric equation explicitly relates two or more variables in terms of one or more independent parameters. ... Vector calculus (also called vector analysis) is a field of mathematics concerned with multivariate real analysis of vectors in two or more dimensions. ... A polar grid with several angles labeled in degrees In mathematics, the polar coordinate system is a two-dimensional coordinate system in which each point on a plane is determined by an angle and a distance. ... In calculus, lHôpitals rule (sometimes spelled as lHospitals rule) uses derivatives to help compute limits with indeterminate forms. ... It is recommended that the reader be familiar with antiderivatives, integrals, and limits. ... In algebra, the partial fraction decomposition of a rational function expresses the function as a sum of fractions, in each term of which, the denominator is an irreducible (i. ... In mathematics, a rational function is a ratio of polynomials. ...

AP Calculus exam

Although there are two AP Calculus tests (AB and BC), the format for both is exactly the same. The AP Calculus Exam is three hours and fifteen minutes long, consisting of an hour and forty-five minutes of multiple choice questions and an hour and a half of free response questions. The free response section is also divided into a calculator and non-calculator part, each consisting of three questions. The three questions during which a student may use a calculator are given first. If a student completes his or her last three questions with time remaining, he or she may return to the first group of free response questions, though the student will not be allowed the use of a graphing calculator for any further work.

The multiple choice section is made up of 45 questions (28 in 55 minutes without calculator and then 17 in 50 minutes with). Each correct answer earns 1 point, while a wrong answer subtracts 1/4.[1] The total is multiplied by 1.2 for a total of 54 points.^[1] For the 6 free response questions each question is worth 9 points, and is hand-graded in June by educators from around the United States. The passing rate for Calculus BC is higher than AB, although far more students take the AB exam.

AP Calculus BC is also the highest scoring AP Exam out of all the other Advanced Placement Exams.

The approximate curves for a 5 are a raw score of 75 for the AB test and 65 for the BC test.

Grade distributions for AP Calculus AB

In the 2006 administration, 197,181 students took the exam from 11,526 schools. The mean score was a 3.03.

The grade distribution for 2006 was:

Grade distributions for AP Calculus BC

In the 2006 administration, 58,602 students took the exam from 4,371 schools. The mean score was a 4.13.

The grade distribution for 2006 was:

AP Calculus in popular culture

The AP Calculus exam was prominently featured in the film Stand and Deliver. Stand and Deliver is a 1988 film dramatizing the work of Jaime Escalante, a dedicated high school mathematics teacher. ...

In House episode Poison, House's patient was taking his AP Calculus exam when he collapsed. House, also known as House, M.D., is a critically-acclaimed American medical drama television series created by David Shore and executive produced by Shore and film director Bryan Singer. ...

External links

• AP Calculus AB
  • College Board description of the AP Calculus AB course content
  • College Board description of the AP Calculus AB examination
• AP Calculus BC
  • College Board description of the AP Calculus BC course content
  • College Board description of the AP Calculus BC examination