Hi all, hope all are safe and well:
We did get some
information from the college board over the weekend. The AP tests are going to be modified severely
this year. There will be no multiple-choice
section and the exam will be 45 minutes of free response which we are assuming
will be 3 free response questions. We are
hearing the exam will be taken from home using a secure browser, but do not
know the details on that yet. There will
be two test dates an earlier one and a later one but we have not heard if that
will be your choice or the schools as to when to assess. They will be giving us more information on
what the test will look like according to them by April 3rd.
They have reduced
the content and taken away Unit 9 (polar and parametric derivatives, and
applications) and some of Unit 10 (series) from the CED. This means we have taught everything to you
that is one the exam with the exception of Alternating Series test which
you have our previous notes and the online resources we posted on the blog to
help you. Limit Comparison test
which there is the online resources to go through on the blog and our previous
notes and Taylor and McLaurin polynomials which we will post online
resources to help you with soon.
To read the full release you can go the college board website: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/about-ap/news-changes/coronavirus-update
We will also post
resources for the material that they have eliminated from the exam at a later
date as it will be important for you in Calc 2/Calc 3 when you take them in
your future at college. Even though they
are not testing on those subjects, your college professors will expect you to
be able to discuss and solve problems related to those topics.
In addition, there
will be AP review sessions run by the college board on the topics above and
other topics and they can be found using the URL below. They will be personally taught by a member of
the college board and I would think give you a strong sense of what they are
expecting from these missing topics if they put them as one of the FRQ’s. We have already covered these topics, but it
might be nice to watch them and let them soak in. You can watch them live or supposedly later
by what they have told us.
To find the
schedule of all AP Classes and when the reviews will occur you can click here: https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/coronavirus-updates#free-ap-classes
The Calc BC review sessions will take
place starting on Wednesday 3/25 from 2-2:45. They reviews will be live. Here
is a link to the Calc BC review sessions:
So, remember the
stuff that was assigned before we left (practice exam, and DCT and LCT hwk
assignment is still going to be due and must be completed.) Hopefully you worked on that stuff some last
week. If you are missing anything in
gradebook, please do the work and e-mail to me and we will get it in gradebook
once you do so. We have not heard anything
as far as county policies on benchmarks etc… moving forward, but I will still
post a benchmark review by Wednesday.
Just focus on other things until we hear if that is going to be
something that is still in play or not.
As far as this
week is concerned, you should then be getting back to things at a high
level. Work on the stuff that is due
eventually, watch the suggested videos and notes from the blog, watch the AP
videos from the college board, and practice problems from the FRQ prediction
packet that we gave you since that is what the exam this year is essentially
going to be.
I will be playing
with zoom this week and trying to learn it.
So hopefully by the end of the week or the beginning of next week we can
have a live session where you can interact with us. Miss you guys and know that you will work
hard to keep yourself up to date as we see where we will be going from here.
Mr. Halstead
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