AP Calc BC is most often taken in senior year. *All statistics are sourced from College Board 2019 & 2020 score distributions Additional Course FactsĪP Calc AB is more often taken as a senior, but in 2019 nearly half as many students chose to take it junior year as did in senior year. They may have taken Calculus I or even AP Calc AB the year before, laying a very strong foundation for BC. How could nearly half of the students be getting 5s, when AP Calc BC is supposed to be the more difficult course with more material? There are many theories about this ranging from testing curves to questions types, but the simplest answer is that students who choose to take AP Calc BC are a far smaller community who are already extremely advanced in math. Right now, you’re probably thinking that those percentages for AP Calc BC can’t possibly be right. Of those students who took the exam, 81% scored a 3 or higher. Of those students who took the exam, 58.4% scored a 3 or higher.ġ39,195 students took the AP Calc BC exam in 2019. The Statistics*ģ00,659 students took the AP Calc AB exam in 2019. On the 2021 digital exam, wherever calculators are not permitted, the questions will be formed so that use of a calculator would not even be helpful. Part B: 4 questions in 60 minutes (calculator not permitted).Īt least 2 of the questions will rely on analysis of real world scenarios. Part A: 2 questions in 30 minutes (graphing calculator required). Part B: 15 questions in 45 minutes (graphing calculator required).įree Response: 6 questions in 1 hour 30 minutes. Part A: 30 Questions in 60 minutes (calculator not permitted). Multiple Choice: 45 questions in 1 hour 45 minutes. The digital test changes will be included at the end of this section, after the the paper test format, as follows: The two exams actually follow the same format, though there will be some slight changes in 2021 to account for digital test taking. They back up their conclusions with concepts such as change, differentiation, and limits. Students learn to problem solve through multimedia such as graphs, numerical data, analysis, and word problems. The AP Calculus courses focus on differential and integral calculus as applied to real-life scenarios. Everything that would be taught in AB is also taught in BC. The topics covered in both courses are very similar, with BC naturally covering a few extra topics (like advanced integration methods, parametrics and vector differentiation, and sequence and series) on top of what AB can cover. If that were the case, why bother having two courses at all? The difference lies in the amount of material covered.ĪP Calc AB covers one semester’s worth of introductory college level Calculus work, whereas BC covers two semesters worth. If you were to hop on over to AP Central and look at College Board’s official descriptions of AP Calc AB and AP Calc BC, you might be surprised to see that the courses are described exactly the same way.
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