About The Calculus AP AB Test
      The Advanced Placement Calculus Examination is offered each May at participating schools and multi-school centers throughout the world.

      The Advanced Placement Program is designed to allow high school students to pursue college-level courses while attending high school. The participating colleges, in turn, grant credit and/or advanced placement to students who do well on the test.

      The Advanced Placement Calculus AB is designed to represent college-level mathematics, and is intended for students who have a strong background in college preparatory mathematics, including algebra, axiomatic geometry, trigonometry, and analytic geometry (rectangular and polar coordinates, equations and graphs, lines, and conics).

      For the 1996-97 academic year and May 1997 exam, the course description above will be maintained. The exam will divided into two equal sections and will be timed as follows as follows:
Section I Part A (50 minutes)
Section I Part B (40 minutes)
Section II (90 minutes)
Total Time (3 hours)

      The exam cost is $73 dollars. So you better study! Fee Reductions may be obtained from the AP Coordinator, if you are in acute financial need. On the bright side, students taking the exam are allowed one weapon, a graphing calculator. The use of graphing calculator is considered an integral part of the AP Calculus courses and is required for the AP Calculus Exams.

For information about choosing your graphing weapon and the list of legal graphing weapons click here!
For a more detailed description of the Calc AP AB Test, see the table below.
For information on test scoring click here!
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      For the 1997-98 academic year and the May 1998 exam, the course description will be changed. The new AP calculus courses emphasize conceptual understanding; a multi-representational approach to calculus(graphical, numerical, algebraic, verbal); the use of technology; and unifying themes which include derivatives, integrals, limits, applications and modeling, and approximation.

Calc AP AB TEST Specs

Section of the Test	Time	# of Questions	Graphing Weapon	Type
Section I Part A	50 Minutes	25	NO	Multiple Choice
Section I Part B	40 Minutes	15	YES	Multiple Choice
Section II	90 Minutes	6	YES	Free Response