Be Prepared for the AP Calculus Exam

Be Prepared for the AP Calculus Exam is your indispensable guide to scoring well on either the AB or BC AP Calculus. This book features an outstanding team of authors and practice exam contributors: veteran AP Calculus teachers who have served on the AP Calculus Test Development Committee and are College Board consultants, exam grading leaders, and AP award recipients. The book expands Skylight's Be Prepared series, and it is crafted with the same care, attention to detail, and respect for the student as our Be Prepared for the AP Computer Science Exam, which has helped many thousands of students get a good grade on AP exams in that subject.

A serious introductory chapter describes the exam format and requirements and offers important tips for successful exam taking. Eight review chapters thoroughly cover all of the AB and BC material. Embedded in these chapters are 200+ multiple choice and free response questions with solutions that show you effective strategies and shortcuts. Five complete practice exams with answers and solutions (three AB and two BC exams) will give you plenty of practice material and help you decide whether to take the AB or BC exam. This book's companion web site contains annotated solutions to free-response questions from past AP exams.

Whether you sit in the front row, the back row, or anywhere in between, Be Prepared will help you focus on the AP Calculus exam requirements, review the material, and fill the gaps in your knowledge. Review, practice, and take the AP Calculus exam with confidence, knowing that you are well prepared.

Mark Howell is a veteran teacher of Advanced Placement mathematics and computer science at his alma mater, Gonzaga College High School in Washington, DC. Mark has served the Advanced Placement community for many years, as a workshop leader, reader of AP exams, Table Leader, and Question Leader. He served on the AP Calculus Test Development Committee from 1996 to 1999. Mark is the author of the 2005 AP Calculus Teacher's Guide and a variety of AP Calculus support materials, and a contributor to AP Central. His efforts to further technology use to enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics have taken him throughout the continental US, as well as Puerto Rico, Honolulu, Singapore, Australia, Thailand, China, and Malaysia. He won the Siemens Award for Advanced Placement in 1999, the Tandy Technology Scholars Award the same year, and a state-level Presidential Teacher Award in 1993.

Martha Montgomery has retired from her position as the Mathematics Specialist at Fremont City Schools in Fremont, Ohio, and is now teaching at Terra Community College in Fremont. Prior to that, she taught AP Calculus and chaired the mathematics department at Fremont Ross High School for more than 20 years. Martha has participated in the AP Calculus exam grading as a Reader, Table Leader, Question Leader, Alternate Exam Leader and finally BC Exam Leader. She served on the AP Calculus Test Development Committee from 1996 to 1999 and contributed many reviews and teacher materials to the AP Central web site. Martha has conducted College Board workshops for teachers in the Midwest and led many workshops for teachers in northwest Ohio.