Practice to Mastery: AP Physics C: Mechanics Practice Exams
Twelve full-length, calculus-based practice exams for AP Physics C: Mechanics, each followed by fully worked solutions and point-by-point scoring guides.
Practice to Mastery: AP(R) Physics C: Mechanics Practice Exams is the examination volume of the Practice to Mastery series. It is built for students who have learned the course and now need to prove they can work all of it under the clock, with the units mixed together the way the real test mixes them.
What's inside:
12 complete practice exams, 552 original questions in total: 504 multiple choice and 48 free response.
Every exam built to the published structure of the AP Physics C: Mechanics Exam. Section I has 42 multiple-choice questions in 85 minutes and counts for 50 percent of the score. Section II has 4 free-response questions in 95 minutes and counts for the other 50 percent.
One free-response question of each exam type in every exam: Mathematical Routines, Translation Between Representations, Experimental Design and Analysis, and Qualitative/Quantitative Translation.
Questions drawn from all seven units in approximately the published exam weighting, including shared-stimulus sets built on a single graph, data table, or diagram.
An answer key and a worked solution for every multiple-choice question, printed right after each exam.
A point-by-point scoring guide for every free-response question, with scoring notes, acceptable alternative answers, reasonable numerical ranges, and an example response.
A guide to estimating your AP score at the end of every exam.
Real calculus, the way the exam uses it. Expect to integrate forces that change with time or position, build centers of mass and rotational inertias from mass elements, differentiate position functions, and solve the differential equations of resistive motion and oscillation. Every step of the calculus is written out in the solutions: the setup, the limits, the antiderivative, and the evaluation.
Twelve comparable exams. No difficulty labels are printed and questions are not grouped by unit, just as on the real examination. Each exam covers the syllabus in the same proportions and at a similar level of difficulty, so a change in your score from one exam to the next reflects a change in you, not a change in the paper.
Explanations that show you what to fix. Each multiple-choice solution explains why the correct answer is right, starting from a fundamental principle and carrying units and significant figures to the final value. Each scoring guide shows exactly where free-response points are earned and lost, so you can mark your own work honestly.
How to use it:
Sit each exam in one timed block: 85 minutes for Section I, then 95 minutes for Section II.
Mark your answers against the key and the scoring guides, then estimate your AP score.
Sort your errors by unit and by cause, and repair your weakest units before the next exam.
Pace the twelve exams across the spring, or use two a week in the final month.
Every question, data set, figure, and solution in this book is original. Only the structure of the examination is reproduced; no question is taken from or modeled on any released or secure exam item. This book is the companion to Practice to Mastery: AP(R) Physics C: Mechanics Workbook and holds no question that appears there. The workbook teaches one unit at a time; this book tests whether you can work the whole course under the clock.
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