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by MayorMonty 2223 days ago
As a student who took 3 AP tests this week, it holds up well. The main weapon CollegeBoard leveraged is that these exams were only 45 minutes long.

For example, AP Calculus had two questions: A 25-minute, and a 15-minute question, each with 9 or 10 parts. There simply just isn't enough time to Google anything. If you look at Google Trends data [0] you can see hilarious spikes in related terms during the exams, but if you didn't have a good handle on the material then you would just run of out time.

[0]: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=...

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Is there a sample questionnaire online ? What about someone using Wolfram Alpha etc. ?
https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/pdf/ap-2020exam-sample-qu...

The exams are designed with algebraic solvers in mind and typically, you don't actually find derivatives and integrals. Instead, they'll show you a graph or table instead of the equation itself. Typically students are allowed to use a TI N-spire CAS CX on their exams, which has a lot of the same capabilities as WolframAlpha.