<p>1 DAY! Guys, seriously…you’re not even really supposed to mention what it was about until the two day period is over. Please edit your posts out of respect for the Guys who worked on creating the problems.</p>
<p>^ totally agree.</p>
<p>I mean, I’ve “heard stories” of people having their scores canceled for discussing the FRQs…</p>
<p>PARANOIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA</p>
<p>I just realized how many tiny little stupid mistakes I made on the E&M FRQs. Was rushing through it towards the end and messed up some parts.</p>
<p>Don’t know about you guys, but time was definitely my biggest issue on the test. 15 mins more and my score would’ve surely gone higher (from where it pathetically stands now, lol).</p>
<p>Do you guys think that the curve for mechanics might be 45/90 or even lower for a 5? Compared to the free response from last year, this year’s was a lot more abstract, and last year’s curve seemed to be pretty generous too…so hopefully…</p>
<p>And did you guys think the multiple choice was not that bad, but just took a long time? I only had time to answer about 27, of which about 25 I knew for sure, and had to leave the rest blank…or maybe I’m just not that good haha</p>
<p>Well littlehanboy, I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. This exam was filled with calculus. Strangely not a whole lot of rotation, I didn’t think. Very abstract exams lead to weird data. I’m saying the curve won’t be high, but don’t assume it’s way low, because there are some token geniuses out there who probably understood FRQ #2. I just think the mechanics was plain weird.</p>
<p>10 more days until late testing for Physics C. Anyone taking late testing as well?</p>
<p>was it just me, or was number 2 not as hard as you all think it was, It was simple recall/no calculations for me. At least that is how I remember it.</p>
<p>well, we never covered that type of situation, so i had no idea where to begin. </p>
<p>additionally, we had never done any experiments so when we saw that, the students at my school all gave up basically…lol</p>
<p>Yeah, same for me as hawk, Our School doesn’t have an ap physics class, and I never saw a problem in a practice exam like that so I was…dumbfounded… also tried to delete my post from bfore…CC wont let me…</p>
<p>hey Derivate, I’m taking the late exam :] I’m self studying though, just Mechanics. Good luck!</p>
<p>I don’t feel like the AP Physics C Mechanics late testing should know about the exam AT ALL. It really gives them an edge and not only does it give them an edge, but it makes the curve much higher for everyone else. (Thus decreasing the chance that YOU may get a 5 for those of you who read this post.) Tboonepickens, can you send me a private e-mail or message about FRQ #2. We’ve never encountered this sort of thing in our AP Physics C class. We were only informed that there was such a thing as a PHYSICAL pendulum a day or two before the test.</p>
<p>^ I’m just wondering, but do you know that late testers have an ENTIRELY different test?</p>
<p>Idk, btw you’re coming off, it seems that you think they’ll have the same test.</p>
<p>Totally different test. Plus isn’t that a bit selfish to not help others…</p>
<p>Ah, I didn’t know that. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a make-up test until I found someone on the forum who said they were taking it. Thanks for informing me. Well, I was under the assumption it WAS the same test and under those pretenses it would seem that we were solving problems for people who could just look up the answers, write them down and score SIGNIFICANTLY higher.</p>
<p>**Refrain from discussing content of FRQ’s for 48 hours or MC’s forever, including
here on College Confidential! I just pulled down numerous posts, from page 1 up to here, if they included mention of same. </p>
<p>From here on, self-moderate, please, according to the agreement you signed at the test.</p>
<p>For those members who reminded each other of the rules as you understood them, a big round of applause! **</p>
<p>48 hrs yet?</p>
<p>hey Derivative and koreapride, im taking the physics c on the late testing date too!!
haha im trying to teach myself all the inductance stuff, cuz im terrible at it</p>
<p>i took the physics b on monday (im in a physics b class, self studying physics c) and it also had weird, ambiguous questions. maybe all the physics tests will have easier curves?? </p>
<p>lol im just hoping the make up isnt as bad as you guys are making it out to be:)</p>
<p>as long as you dont get a physical pendulum (48 are over), the late testing should be easier than ours, sadly…</p>
<p>Uh, what was so hard about the 2nd FRQ for mechanics? Wasn’t it just a pendulum where the lever arm for the torque was x?</p>
<p>Ok, FRQs are up on Collegeboard APcentral, 48 hrs are up lol.</p>
<p>So yeah shravas, it WAS a physical pendulum. But it didn’t have uniform mass density and I doubt that the majority of test takers knew what on earth the small-angle approximation is.</p>
<p>Basically, you say:
limit as theta approaches 2pie, is equal to sin(theta)/theta (which equals 1).
Then you do the Torque = I(alpha) and use d^2(theta)/dt^2 to solve the differential for theta.
So…nonsensical. They could’ve come up with a much better and more realistic problem.</p>
<p>What did you guys put for parts b and c of # 2?</p>