Messages from the College Board (they bring you Advanced
Placement Exams, etc.)
Prerequisites:
“Before studying calculus, all students should
complete four years of secondary mathematics designed for college-bound
students: courses in which they study algebra, geometry, trigonometry,
analytic geometry, and elementary functions. These functions include
those that are linear, polynomial, rational, exponential, logarithmic,
trigonometric, inverse trigonometric, and piecewise defined. In particular,
before studying calculus, students must be familiar with the properties
of functions, the algebra of functions.”
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What follows are the instructions that students
see at the top of the A.P. exams in calculus.
Instructions at the top of Section II: Advanced Placement Calculus
Examinations:
Time------ 1 hour and 30 minutes
Number of Problems ----
6
Percent of total grade ----- 50
SHOW ALL YOUR
WORK. Indicate clearly the methods you use
because you will be graded on
the correctness of your methods as
well as on the accuracy of your
final answers. If you choose to use
decimal approximations, your answers
should be correct to three decimal
places.
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