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AP Calculus preparation.
AP Calculus AB and BC are the College Board courses that get students into and through first-year university calculus. We tutor both, with an emphasis on the conceptual understanding the free-response section rewards.
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About the exam
What AP Calculus looks like.
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AB and BC
AB covers limits, derivatives, integrals, and the fundamental theorem: roughly a semester of college calculus. BC includes all of AB and adds sequences, series, parametric, and polar: a full first-year course.
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Scored 1 to 5
AP exams are scored 1 to 5, with 5 the top mark. Selective US universities expect 5s in AP Calculus from students applying to maths, engineering, and the sciences.
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Multiple choice and free response
Each paper has a multiple-choice section and a free-response section, with calculator-permitted and non-calculator portions in each. The free-response section is where most marks are won or lost.
How we work
Our approach.
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Concepts before algorithms
The free-response section is graded for reasoning, not just the final number. We teach the underlying ideas so the working scores.
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Free-response craft
Justifications, units, notation, and the right level of detail. The grading rubric is specific, and we teach to it.
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Diagnostic-led
We start from a diagnostic and prioritise where the student is losing marks, rather than working through the full syllabus.
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