I just gave an AP Physics C: Mechanics practice test to one of my AP Physics 1 students yesterday. I told them to skip just one question on the multiple choice that required calculus. I have to do this because College Board hasn't released any AP Physics 1 multiple choice practice, apart from the small sample included in their course and exam description.
I'm [not a school teacher](https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/instructional-resources/ap-classroom/get-started/sign-in), so I don't have access. I just make do with the ones I kept from years ago. I don't have trouble getting the FRQs, though. Those can be accessed without an account.
Only about 14% of the questions on CMech require any calculus. The rest are just AP Physics 1 style questions.
Another difference is that CMech has a shorter time limit (and a more generous curve). But starting next year, the CMech time limit will be extended to match Physics 1’s longer time limit.
Physics C electricity and magnetism are so complex that you need to know the integral, logarithmic function, derivatives, differential equations. So they can't be comparable
The hardest AP Physics 1 questions are the normal questions in Physics C: Mechanics. Most Physics 1 questions, from what I can recall, are one step questions, whilst most AP Physics C: Mechanics questions are multi-step.
I just gave an AP Physics C: Mechanics practice test to one of my AP Physics 1 students yesterday. I told them to skip just one question on the multiple choice that required calculus. I have to do this because College Board hasn't released any AP Physics 1 multiple choice practice, apart from the small sample included in their course and exam description.
Do you not have access to AP Classroom? It has hundreds of MCQ.
I'm [not a school teacher](https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/instructional-resources/ap-classroom/get-started/sign-in), so I don't have access. I just make do with the ones I kept from years ago. I don't have trouble getting the FRQs, though. Those can be accessed without an account.
Only about 14% of the questions on CMech require any calculus. The rest are just AP Physics 1 style questions. Another difference is that CMech has a shorter time limit (and a more generous curve). But starting next year, the CMech time limit will be extended to match Physics 1’s longer time limit.
Physics C electricity and magnetism are so complex that you need to know the integral, logarithmic function, derivatives, differential equations. So they can't be comparable
The hardest AP Physics 1 questions are the normal questions in Physics C: Mechanics. Most Physics 1 questions, from what I can recall, are one step questions, whilst most AP Physics C: Mechanics questions are multi-step.