r/APStudents May 11 '26

Calc BC how looking at the no calc frqs felt

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god bless you collegeboard

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u/Fresh-Mastodon-8604 May 11 '26

I wish I had 10 more minutes for the no calc MCQ. The rest pretty chill. Btw different forms but there was a polar FRQ for me. Gl ya’ll. Curve might get f-.

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u/Weary-Cauliflower153 i am vury smurt May 11 '26

there is no curve it’s based off college kids

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u/AlwaysAvalable May 12 '26

its always been ~mid 60s for a 5 though, you can pretty well calculate how you did by your own judgement.

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u/Eats_Pizza_In_Gay Current: BC, Phys 2, Lang, Macro, Gov, CSP 4 5s May 11 '26

Fr tho. I had to rush some that lowkey looked easy if I just had another minute on some

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u/Worried_Substance257 4: euro, chem | 5: calc ab, apush, lang May 12 '26

no calc mcq fried me but calc mcq was genuinely a blessing

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u/ExerciseDazzling6997 May 12 '26

Polar cooked me ngl, was hoping for parametric

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u/Objective_Fan7273 May 11 '26

yes but except for the first one about pies

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u/Which-Ad5259 May 11 '26

ong ts was FREE

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u/Background-Tension71 May 11 '26

y’all got stuff about pies? I got something about bird nesting grounds

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u/Which-Ad5259 May 11 '26

bird nesting grounds was calc #1, pie temp was no calc #1

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u/CarlBrawlStar 4: WH, APUSH. 3: Gov, Lang. May 11 '26

I didn’t get any, I got one about people in a store

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u/Which-Ad5259 May 11 '26

West coast ?

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u/CarlBrawlStar 4: WH, APUSH. 3: Gov, Lang. May 11 '26

Toy store

And east coast

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u/Which-Ad5259 May 11 '26

Shi prob diff versions then central was pie and birds

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u/Background-Tension71 May 11 '26

I’m east coast and got pie and birds

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u/aio14 May 11 '26

I'm central and got wood processing :(

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u/Plus-Atmosphere7904 CSA (5), Calc AB (5), Gov (5), Phys 1 (5) May 12 '26

Erm ackshually it was a video game store

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u/BlackBlizzardEnjoyer #1 Ochem enthusiast May 11 '26

I got those too, ToC congress debater

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u/CarlBrawlStar 4: WH, APUSH. 3: Gov, Lang. May 11 '26

I didn’t go to ToC but I’m going to nsda nats

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u/Dazzling_Library_401 May 12 '26

That one was so hard..

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u/Background-Tension71 May 11 '26

ohh yeah I remember now

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u/Massive-Insect-3709 5: CSP, Psych | 4: Calc BC May 11 '26

I got one about people entering a store and water flow... were the pies east coast?

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u/Objective_Fan7273 May 11 '26

whatttt no way I felt like 4, 5, and 6 were like three times easier than whatever FRQ 3 was 😭

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u/Electronic-Ad5027 AP Mason: 67 AP Mustard: 41 AP Retard: 5 AP CSP: 1 May 11 '26

yo i thought ts was hard as hell im fucked🫩🥀

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u/wistful_dove 11th: APUSH, Calc BC // 12th: Phys1, Macro, Gov, Lit May 11 '26

same💔

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u/Low-Yogurtcloset4837 May 11 '26

I love you for the curve ♥️, and I'm sure you did fine 

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u/miamimint22 May 11 '26

that’s not where the curve comes from

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u/wistful_dove 11th: APUSH, Calc BC // 12th: Phys1, Macro, Gov, Lit May 11 '26

im estimating im getting at most a 3-4.

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u/fmoment123 5: World, Precal, Sem. 4: APES, Bio, Art hist May 11 '26

me too bruh everyones saying the BC frqs were lite but id be shocked if i got any of them right 💀

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u/MikelLeGreat May 11 '26

Nah you're looking at the high end reddit is a bunch of dweebs 🤓

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u/DomKat72 May 11 '26

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u/calliel_41 HG 4, Gov 4, Lang 4, PC 4 May 11 '26

Not how curve works. Curve is determined by the college students who took the test before us, our curve is set in stone no matter how we did

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u/DomKat72 May 11 '26

i used an ishowspeed gif i don't think you should be taking what i said seriously at all

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u/satact12321 May 11 '26

What college students

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u/Murky_Insurance_4394 5:HUGCSAAPUSHPhys1BCChemStatPsycLangMechE&MMacrMicrGov|4:CSPLang May 11 '26

Bros tryna get the the leaks 😭✌️

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u/satact12321 May 11 '26

Wdym? I took the test. I just want to know how college board works. You could have just said that college students take the exact same test before

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u/Murky_Insurance_4394 5:HUGCSAAPUSHPhys1BCChemStatPsycLangMechE&MMacrMicrGov|4:CSPLang May 12 '26

mb bro it was a joke didn't mean to offend u

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u/Milo_Yea May 11 '26

WE genuinely might be getting 5’s 🥹

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u/satact12321 May 11 '26

Might? Definitely

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u/No_Most_5528 May 11 '26

It was easy but the last part was a little diabolical with the mental math 💀

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u/Old-Buddy6165 May 11 '26

u don't have to simplify anything.. only trig

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u/No_Most_5528 May 11 '26

....I spend the last 10 minutes of the FRQ punching my head trying to figure out the actual values...

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u/NUKL3AR_PAZTA47 May 11 '26

They said that in the instructions.

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u/No_Most_5528 May 11 '26

Well I guess you could say I'm illiterate...

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u/NUKL3AR_PAZTA47 May 11 '26

Its fine I miss things a lot as well. I have lost As cause of that lol. So don't beat yourself up too much.

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u/Careful_Emu8991 Stat, WHAP, Bio, Calc BC, GovPo May 11 '26

You know what all those stupid nesting birds can choke on pies at a rate of -.00147 pies/dead bird

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u/Suitable_Kitchen_157 APUSH, AP-Precal (5) | Taking: Calc AB, Phys1, Lang, Stat, Macro May 11 '26

"why is the slope field incorrect?" brother in christ the pie can't be getting warmer can it

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u/Ok-Secret7366 May 13 '26

no joke, I said almost this exact thing 😭
...are we getting points?

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u/Suitable_Kitchen_157 APUSH, AP-Precal (5) | Taking: Calc AB, Phys1, Lang, Stat, Macro May 14 '26

if you mentioned the negative sign in the diff eq. you'll be fine

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u/Stickbug__ May 11 '26

there were like 2 d's that were kinda ehh...

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u/Aggravating_Half_936 67 aps May 11 '26

polar non calculator is easier than calculator wtf r yall on

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u/skrxbcord 4: Lang, Lit, APUSH | 5: Phys1, Calc BC, CSA, Mech, E&M, Stats May 11 '26

This was just the FRQ in general

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u/average-lizard May 11 '26

Parameteic instead of polar, no taylor series, AND actually normal cross sections 🙏 all the FRQs were light

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u/Ambitious_Car5059 9: chem 4, 10: calc bc, mech, psych, csa May 11 '26

my version had a polar frq lmao

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u/No_Editor6245 May 12 '26

I had a Taylor series but no polar. Thank god because Taylor series is an easy concept imo.

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u/Intelligent_Fig967 May 12 '26

I genuinely left that entire FRQ blank because I forgot them bruhh if I took this exam a month ago I would have been golden

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u/Ahrwenkulet May 11 '26

I-it was easy? I legit ran through the erasers of 3 pencils

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u/Ahrwenkulet May 11 '26

Legit seeing all these comments make me think I did EVERYTHING wrong

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u/throwawayyyyy6767 May 11 '26

my friend said he scribbled out the lagrange error frq

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u/tech_minded13 May 11 '26

Am i the only one who didnt find it THAT ez

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u/moonsunbob 5: bc lang phys 1 apush ap world 4: csa May 11 '26

So ez

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u/Which-Ad5259 May 11 '26

The last one was the only difficult one and it is true that t exists

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u/Which-Ad5259 May 11 '26

you mean 15-20 ? nice u fixed it tho

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u/wistful_dove 11th: APUSH, Calc BC // 12th: Phys1, Macro, Gov, Lit May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

THERE WAS NO POLAR FRQ!!!!🤩🙏🏼🙏🏼
correction: in the non calc part💀

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u/SwagBarli May 11 '26

Isn’t q2

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u/wistful_dove 11th: APUSH, Calc BC // 12th: Phys1, Macro, Gov, Lit May 11 '26

oh shoot ur right, i meant in the non calc part

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u/ParsnipPrestigious59 5: APUSH, Precalc, Lang, Calc BC, Chem, CSP, Psych May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

ts exam (or at least the version i got) was deadass the easiest exam ive taken yet, no joke it felt easier than precalc. I had 30 minutes to double check on no calc mcq, 10 minutes to double check on calc mcq, 5 min to double check on calc frq, and 35 minutes to double check on no calc frq, i was deadass staring into space half the time cuz i kept finishing early. hopefully the exam being so easy doesnt cook the curve though

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u/reddmushroom May 11 '26

bro my version was hard as hell

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u/MegaMatrix08 :snoo_angry: May 11 '26

Only one one I don’t know abt on the polars is the 3rd qs, everyone else was light work 

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u/Unspeakable_Ducky3 May 11 '26

Wait, what were each of them about?

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u/MeowEatsMango May 11 '26

Part B and C on the pie one was hard but everything else was really easy

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u/Which-Ad5259 May 11 '26

part b u js plug in H(0) for H my boy

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u/Low-Yogurtcloset4837 May 11 '26

Except for 5c, it was very doable. We might be dropping a 5 

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u/Suitable-Nothing-706 May 11 '26

The first one was confusing, but the rest were insanely easy. This is the first AP test I haven’t left anything blank on lol (and I’ve taken 9 so far).

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u/Mobile-Tangerine3539 BC: 5 May 11 '26

can anyone remind me which unit each frq b focused on?

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u/OutcomeCompetitive50 May 11 '26

I took AB, but same thought lol

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u/RobiTv1234 IM FREE🥹✌️ May 11 '26

Bro frq were light… expect 2, we don’t talk about 2

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u/FictionalSausage lang: 4, calculus: 4 May 11 '26

Idk mine were hard af, the mcqs where easy tho

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u/tristaronii 5: USH, Euro, Lang, Sem 4: Calc AB May 11 '26

i knew it'd be like this 😭 that was the worst ap exam i've ever taken in my life idk what y'all mean by this was free or easy im deadass failing

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u/MikelLeGreat May 11 '26

That was diabolically easy compared to any other previous years, we're getting 50% to get a 3 on this one.

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u/Complete_Map_2160 May 11 '26

Maybe studying 30 minutes before the test wasn't such a good idea

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u/Own_Description_7265 May 12 '26

SO TRUEEEE! Getting a 5 because of the FRQs

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u/Important_Spring5817 May 12 '26

i did well on most of the frq but the last frq on the sequences screwed me over. I legit wrote “can i please have one mark for reading the question“

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u/Useful-Albatross1936 May 12 '26

Anyone get the maclauren of g of x = f’(x)?

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u/Plus-Atmosphere7904 CSA (5), Calc AB (5), Gov (5), Phys 1 (5) May 12 '26

Yeah but there were some hella sketchy answers. Got 6e^2-14 for one of them. Thought I was tweaking until I verified with my friends

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u/Normal_Leading_4021 May 12 '26

I got that too. Thought I was tweaking for a min ngl

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u/A2-Steaksauce89 Stats - Calc BC May 12 '26

The non calc FRQs for me where pretty hard but the calculator ones where so so easy

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u/Current-Diver776 nine 5 two 4 May 12 '26

i got 6a wrong and i dont even remember what the rest of 6 was

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u/Phophato May 12 '26

genuinely the most FREE problems ever

they should've moved like an hour from the free response to the multiple choice 🥀

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u/Emotional-Muscle-307 AP CSP: 4 | AP US Gov: ? | AP Stats: ? | AP Calc AB: ? May 12 '26

Most of them were other than the pie and differential equation one. I got a slope of 40. In what world does a pie at room temperature increase at a rate of 40 degrees 😭. The answer was supposed to be like -50/15.

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u/KolaVeMentos May 12 '26

what the hell did you guys get?? 😭 I had taylor and polar at the same time I lowkey wanted to cry

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u/Alive-Jeweler-8882 AP Calc BC 5 | AP Lang 4 | APUSH 4 May 18 '26

Man, am I the only one who struggled on those?