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Math   Location: IAKSS | Tips for Crushing the AP Precalculus Exam from Math Medic! 1. Make sure your calculator is in radian mode. In this course, all angles are measured in radians, not degrees. 2. Do not leave anything blank. There is no penalty for guessing on the multiple-choice questions, and you might earn partial credit on a free-response question if you can start a problem even if you can’t finish it. 3. Be flexible with your calculator. Know how to store values, find the zeros, intersections, and relative extrema on a graph, and use the calculator's regression features. 4. Give exact values for log and trig expressions that can be evaluated without a calculator. Know the unit circle! 5. Understand the effect of transformations on a graph and an equation. Transformations appear all over the exam, and you will often be asked to determine the value of parameters representing these transformations. 6. Know how to justify a result using function behavior. This includes determining the type of function that can be used to model a table of values based on the relationships between inputs and outputs, and justifying when a function is increasing or decreasing and concave down or concave up. 7. Read each prompt carefully. Small but important details can be missed if you’re rushing. 8. Identify what you’re looking for in an answer choice immediately after reading the prompt. If you know what you’re looking for, you can quickly eliminate distractor answers instead of analyzing them each one by one. 9. Round final answers to 3 decimal places, if necessary. Avoid intermediate rounding. 10. Be confident. You have worked hard all year. You are ready for this! Good luck on the exam! With these 10 Exam Tips in your back pocket, you can confidently walk into the AP test, knowing you’re ready for whatever might be coming your way. You’ve got this! Gimme 10 As a final review activity, here are 10 practice multiple-choice questions covering content from the whole course. These questions can all be done without a calculator. You'll notice that the questions get more challenging as you progress, providing a good benchmark for how students are likely to perform on the AP Precalculus Exam. Attachments ----------------  Gimme_10_Answer_Key_AP_Precalculus_Math_Medic_2cfa5dbca6.pdf (71KB - 15 downloads) Gimme_10_AP_Precalculus_Math_Medic_4a1a248323.pdf (251KB - 16 downloads) | ||
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