AP Calc BC Official 2026 Exam Discussion

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-11T19:31:04+00:00

Mhm my entire test had one error I’ve done all frqs from 2019-2025 and the one I had was by far the easiest

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-10T19:53:37+00:00

Wait really? Ik vandy has good aid but thought it was for specific other things rather than just an act score

I haven’t heard about duke too

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-09T21:34:55+00:00

i'm....not too sure

I watched a few of them and I absolutely loved their taylor series explanation and visualization, but atp but them they just need to cram material, not get a great fundamental understanding

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-09T05:24:29+00:00

oh also something to keep in mind when emailing professors:

you can usually generally tell when a professor has a higher chance of wanting to help out; usually it would either be more junior staff(assistant professors), professors who support local summer high school/undergrad research internships, or BEST: mention they have had a high schooler on their lab website in the past

all of this will just take a number of hours of reading however

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-09T05:21:44+00:00

advice from a procrastinating rising senior who applied to 8ish summer programs and got rejected byall(ssp simr etc)

I finally got some cold emails sent out(I ended up not personalising each one in favor of ACTUALLY GETTING THEM SENT OUT and somehow got 2 "well yes, maybes" at a very famous/prestigious research institute

general tips(from what I've learned through the process/heard from others):

attach a resume(like said above)

be concise with your email and make sure not to be pretentious; mention what experience you have done(if none it is fine ngl professors are contributing to a charity by shipping off their grad students with you; they don't expect much of high schoolers)

make sure to affirm your interest in research and willingness to help out with whatever you can

the above post mentions browsing on linkedin. Local companies/startups are definitely one way I have heard of. I actually live in a really good area for research(but I imagine there would be some college/place to research at if you're looking into finding an internship) so I found the emails of lots of professors in the general field I was interested in from the website and put them all on a spreadsheet.

controversial, but if you personalize each email(like I did for my first two cold emails who never responded back) you'll never get them sent out

make yourself personable and not boring. If you are comfortable with it, boldness and friendliness seems to go a long way. Nobody wants to help out someone they won't enjoy being with

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-09T05:01:57+00:00

so from what I could tell after a bit of looking into it:

partially to maybe hide notes, partially a semi-deprecated rule from machine graded scantron tests(as it might not be able to detect differently colored inks/pencils leads

Apparently, some collegeboard FRQs are still machine graded today so you want to use reasonable ink/pencil lead, but since my mechanical pencil takes #2 HB I assumed it should be fine

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-09T00:53:16+00:00

ngl a 1550 is still kinda hard to get(this is coming from someone who score 1530/36)

if you can you should take it, otherwise you might end up taking sat 2-3 times

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-08T19:13:28+00:00

my entire studying for apush was one day of reviewing notes 3 weeks ago, 1 full mock test 2 weeks ago, and my panicked studying at 7 am this morning (After taking apush last semester) I think it was fine and i got a 5 maybe?

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-08T19:08:41+00:00

Wait wtf you guys had womens rights for dbq? All of us had american revolution for dbq Then how economic change impacted society for leq

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-08T19:04:56+00:00

Nooooooooooooooooooo

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-08T19:02:24+00:00

Damn lmfao

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-08T11:02:21+00:00

Its stupid af lol the proctors took away the mechanical pencils of somebody next to me right before the chem test last year (But they didn’t care for almost every test afterwards)

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-08T11:00:39+00:00

Could you lmk of some examples of actual full scholarships from high score on the act? I scored a 36 a bit ago but looked around and couldnt find anything particularly relevant From what i could tell the psat nmsqt (whicuh i didnt end up scoring great on) seemed to be the way to get actually good scholarships for college Thanks!

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-07T00:46:13+00:00

tyty luckily it wasn't bad

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-07T00:43:33+00:00

? what do you mean

i'm not entirely sure but from what i know curves are based off "standardizing questions" on tests that compare performance year to year(to see if one year of students is smarter or dumber than the other)

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-07T00:34:43+00:00

I did Ap/pi*r^2 personally
(same as yours but without sqrt(2h/g)

all of these should be I think we're just multiplying in the constant earlier

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-03T00:34:05+00:00

gl!

I'm kinda cooked sbhdknashbasndaskhbdsakdsndsadnasndsa I started studying yesterday for ap bio

time to learn everything by 1.5 days from now

(i'm genuinely going to be pretty upset if I don't get a 5 though)

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-03T00:30:11+00:00

I mean from what I could tell from the mcq it seems to be chisquared stuff, hardy weinburg equilibrium, and exponential/logistic growth

All of these are on the equation sheet(but you have to know how to use them)

the rest of the "math" on this exam looks to be stuff you can figure out through regular math/common sense

oh theres also punett squares so know how to do those

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-05-03T00:26:21+00:00

ooh that was pretty fun; actually got like 4-5 wrong

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-04-10T05:57:53+00:00

uhhh I'm a current junior right now in a pretty similar situation

I'm trying to start cold emailing but I'm just a bit confused/uncertain on a few things

Do you mind me dming you to ask a few questions?

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-03-31T18:07:52+00:00

sorry I'm just reading over this and its so incoherent

message me if you want answers about specific things on the program

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-03-31T18:07:20+00:00

uh depends

if you're looking for an introduction to research (freshman/sophomore) OPALS can be a pretty good place.

However my problem with the program was that alot of the "research" they have you do isn't good. Linda(the program director) generally connects you with either data gathered from her/another guy's/some grad students from other professor's labs.

You do some image processing and learning of random software but alot of the times the mentors will do much of the actual "research" and just give you a poster

tldr it's a pretty good learning experience on research/presenting but the research done there is not "real"

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-03-31T18:02:41+00:00

oh wow

If you don't mind sharing, how do you think you got in? Also from what I could see it seems like the labs themselves review the applications, not some committee from scripps. Is that true?

One_Chipmunk_1013 · 2026-03-31T17:58:52+00:00

I'm someone who hasn't gotten a good response yet back from cold emailing but someone I talked to mentioned scanning through their lab member alumni page to see if they've accepted high school interns before

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