Practice to Mastery

Twelve full-length practice exams for AP® Calculus AB, built to the structure of the real examination and backed by complete explanations and scoring guides.Practice to Mastery: AP® Calculus AB Practice Exams gives you the timed, whole-exam practice that turns knowing calculus into scoring well on the test. Every exam follows the published format: Section I with 42 multiple-choice questions in 1 hour 40 minutes, split into a no-calculator part of 29 questions and a graphing-calculator part of 13 questions, and Section II with 6 free-response questions in 1 hour 30 minutes, 2 with a graphing calculator and 4 without. Each exam samples all eight units of the AB course in proportion to their weight on the exam, so every sitting is a realistic rehearsal.What’s inside:12 complete practice exams with 576 original questions: 504 multiple choice and 72 free responseNo-calculator and graphing-calculator parts in both sections, matching the exam’s calculator rulesFree-response questions in the exam’s multi-part format, with a balance of procedural and conceptual tasks and at least two real-world contexts in every examGraphs of functions and their derivatives, tables of values, slope fields, region diagrams, and shared-stimulus question sets, just as you will see them on test dayA clear explanation for every multiple-choice question, showing the key steps by hand or the calculator work with three-decimal answersA 9-point scoring guide for every free-response question, with point-by-point scoring notes and a complete model responseA score estimate after every exam, and a Questions by Unit table that shows exactly which units to reviewFront matter that explains the exam format, how to take each exam under timed conditions, how to score it, and how to review your mistakes by unit, by calculator setting, and by type of taskThe twelve exams are comparable in coverage and difficulty, so your results from one exam to the next measure real progress. The no-calculator questions can be solved exactly by hand, and the calculator questions reward the skills the exam expects: setting up integrals and equations, finding zeros and intersections, and evaluating derivatives numerically. The free-response scoring guides show you how points are actually earned, from writing a correct setup to checking the hypotheses of a theorem before you apply it.All content stays strictly within AP Calculus AB, so you never spend time on BC-only topics. Every question was written specifically for this book.Ideal for students preparing for the AP Calculus AB Exam, for timed review in the final weeks before test day, and for teachers who need complete practice exams with fully worked solutions.This book is the companion to Practice to Mastery: AP® Calculus AB Workbook, which practices the course one unit at a time. The two books share no questions.AP® and Advanced Placement® are registered trademarks of the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.