Of the 302,532 students who took an Advanced Placement test to gauge their performance in college-level calculus last May, exactly 66,045 got the highest grade on the exam’s 5-point scale. To score a ...

A 17-year-old math wiz from Los Angeles joined an exclusive club of only a dozen students in the world to have earned a perfect score on the AP Calculus exam last spring. Cedrick Argueta, a senior at ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the percent of students Truman Bennet falls in. He is among 0.006% of students to achieve a perfect score on the exam this year ...

Calculus is not that hard, at least according to Stevenson High School junior Emery Liu. The real challenge, Liu has found, is trying to explain what calculus is. A year ago, during his sophomore year ...

The call from Lincoln High School’s principal’s office came unexpectedly, as they often do. Cedrick Argueta’s friends joked that he might be in trouble. Cedrick didn’t think so. He was right. It ...