Throughout the year he did extra problems, made notecards and read ahead in the textbook. He said he started studying for hours at a time more than a month before the test. Nikhil, now 17, took the class his junior year, choosing it over a slower-paced college-level calculus course Carmel also offers. It would have been easy to miss a single point by making a silly mistake, like punching the wrong number in his calculator, he said. No, he wasn't wearing lucky socks, Nikhil laughs, but there likely was some luck involved. But I am proud of myself and I know that I put in a lot of work, so I'm glad that it paid off." "I don't feel like a super genius because I know it was mostly chance that I got a perfect score. In 2016, Truman Bennet, then a senior at Marion High School, was one of 18 students to earn a perfect score on the Calculus AB test, the slightly slower-paced college-level course.īut Beck knew Nikhil is meticulous, and has a "far greater mastery" of the subject than most students. In fact, no other Hoosier has done it since College Board started alerting students with perfect scores in 2015, said spokesperson Maria Eugenia Alcón-Heraux. A perfect score in Calculus BC is rare, he said, and has never happened at Carmel High School before. "I thought it was possible, but I didn't think it was very probable," Beck said. That means Nikhil not only got every multiple choice question right, but also had perfect answers to the "free-response" portion of the hours-long exam.Īcross all of College Board's 38 courses, only 511 students of the 2.7 million worldwide who took a test received a perfect score this year. Nikhil is one of just three people in the world who got every point possible on the test this year, according to College Board. More than 133,000 students took it in May 2017. The other two were students in Illinois and California.
He immediately texted his parents and math teacher, Peter Beck.īacking up: Carmel Schools says it won't make contentious high-ability changes next yearĬarmel lawsuit: Mayor Brainard stacked the deck on mosque vote He didn't have to read the rest to know the letter would confirm he got a perfect score.
Then he read this sentence: "I am writing to share some exciting news." Nikhil already knew he got a "5," the equivalent of an "A," on his AP Calculus BC test. It was postmarked from College Board, the organization that oversees Advanced Placement courses, but they typically release scores online. When Carmel High School senior Nikhil Raghuraman saw the official-looking letter in the mail back in December, he was momentarily confused.
ap calculus ab This course follows the curriculum set by the College Board for the advanced placement Calculus AB exam.During a typical week in this course, students will complete the following coursework: We estimate that the course workload will take 10+ hours per week. The College Board recommends this course and corresponding AP ® exam for advanced 11th grade students and up. AP ® Calculus AB is a rigorous, college-level course.Unit 6 Practice Questions ANSWERS and EXPLANATIONS. AP Calculus AB Unit 6 - Integration and Accumulation of Change.
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