georgeyang89

I took Calculus I at a summer program this year, but our school doesnt offer Calc BC as a class. what's the best way to self study for BC? We covered up to integrals by parts in my calc I class. What prep book can I use as a text book to help me prepare for the exam?

YanksDolphins

Honestly, using a textbook might not be the best idea. They're long and sometimes hard to understand. I think the Princeton Review book is great for self-studying. There are plenty of problems and the explanations are nice, plus there are multiple practice tests. Make sure that when you get up to series and sequences that you take time to digest the material, because it might be difficult to grasp the first time through. If you want harder problems, the Barron's book has plenty.

thorps517

on the calc BC exam, if i already got a 5 on AB, then on the free response could i focus solely on the BC questions, because theres no point of putting time into the 3 AB questions - i am not interested in a 5 subscore if i already have one.


does the BC score include points received from answering AB FR questions?

and are there AB questions in the multiple choice?

TheMathProf

The AB subscore is approximately 60 percent of the 108 points that contribute to your overall BC score. So you absolutely need to know your AB material to do well on the BC test.

Your AB subscore consists of:
*3 FR questions in their entirety (9 points each)
*Parts of the 3 remaining FR questions that are AB related (this makes up about 5 points or so)
*Your performance on the AB multiple choice questions, multiplied by a constant (and it's not the 1.2 constant that they use on the AB test, but it's close) (this is somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 points).

Animus

Textbooks have a lot of miscellaneous additional info (excursive stuff) as well as proofs you don't really need to know.

UCCP.com is a great place for lectures on specific topics. You might need a textbook to work a lot of the problems, though.