<p>Okay so I looked at wikipedia for AP Percentages and wondered, how accurate is this?</p>
<p>I did find that Calc BC has higher percentage of 5 than Calc AB but still… Like it appears that people score better on AP Physics B than AP Chem. I thought physics was harder science than chemistry?</p>
<p>They are taken from collegeboard, so I’d say they are as accurate as anything. </p>
<p>It all depends on the curves for each test. And also, most people consider AP Chem harder than AP Physics B, as Physics B isn’t even calc based.</p>
<p>wat did u think? some1 just made them up? >_></p>
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<p>Calc AB and Calc BC are offered in one of two different ways at the various high schools:</p>
<p>(1) Some high schools require students to choose between taking either Calc AB or Calc BC. In this case, the smarter students are going to be the ones who are more likely to take the Calc BC, therefore indicating that the population taking the BC tests is likely smarter.</p>
<p>(2) Some high schools require students to take Calc BC after taking Calc AB. Many of these high schools mix in some additional topics into the BC curriculum. In this case, these students have already had AB and had a significantly longer period of time to learn the extra BC topics. Not to mention that these students must have taken the AB exam as juniors (or younger (!)), and are therefore usually among the mathematical elite at their respective schools. Not all of the students who take the AB exam at these schools will later take the BC exams (none of the seniors in the AB class for instance), and therefore, the BC population would be expected to be generally smarter and higher performing than the AB population.</p>
<p>So, if you think about it, I would be shocked if the performance on the BC exam were much lower than it is, and frankly, I’m somewhat surprised it isn’t higher still.</p>
<p>^^ an average of just over a 4 is amazing, even bordering on ‘scandalous.’</p>
<p>Good statement.</p>
<p>Ha… I don’t know, I remember seeing someone writing “I like pie” under some article (it was soon gone though) and I certainly didn’t know that the data came from collegeboard.</p>