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 chapter 8 from the CED. This means we have taught everything to you
that is one the exam with the exception of differential equations which
you have our note packet and the online resources we posted on the blog to help
you. Slope fields which there is
the online resources to go through on the blog and exponential growth and
decay 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 whether you take that at
Northern High next year or 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 highly suggest you 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 AB 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 AB review sessions:
So, remember the
stuff that was assigned before we left (practice exam, benchmark review packet,
diff eq packet, 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 Ms. Straub or Mr. Halstead 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.
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.
We 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
Ms.
Straub
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