Favorite AP Exam? Least favorite exam? - Page 2

biodontchem · 11-08-2012, 09:01 PM

Least - AP US Government - scored a 2 and learned like absolutely nothing the whole year last year.

Favorite - AP Calculus AB - So freaking easy and predictable. I'm in love with Calc I but feel like I would hate higher level math classes.

Darthpwner · 11-08-2012, 10:59 PM

Is AP US Government that hard? I'm going to self-study this year.

biodontchem · 11-09-2012, 12:18 AM

I had no passion for it but supposedly it is one of the easiest AP's. Almost everyone who took it got 1's or 2's in my class. It's not hard, you just have to have the motivation to learn it.

mapletree7 · 11-11-2012, 10:26 AM

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Although integrating e^(-x^2) dx is a little beyond the scope, even for Calculus BC. But it's still doable. Finding the coefficients of the least squares regression line also requires quite a bit of calculus.

I've always wondered how they treat the theory of continuous pdfs in AP Statistics without calculus. Also, the BC calculus course that I took covered differentiation under the integral sign and some Calc III material after the AP exam was over, which makes evaluating Gaussian integrals almost routine.