AP Calculus BC Question

Stella14 · 07-15-2008, 01:58 PM

I took AP Calculus AB this year, and next year I'm taking BC as an "independent study" as my school calls it because I'm the only one who is taking it. Anyways, is it normal to take AB then BC? Because I've looking around here and it seems like a lot of people just go to BC.

So next year will I not need to learn a lot considering I've already taken AB?

clcgirl_1999 · 07-15-2008, 02:02 PM

A bunch of people at my school do this and I think that is the normal sequence (?), at least at my school it is. Basically, BC just includes some extra topics that aren't in AB, but overall it has a lot of the same material. Even on the BC test you get an AB subscore. I know the people in my school who took it reviewed AB for half the year and then learned the BC topics about 6 weeks before the test... apparently they thought it was really easy.
Sorry. I've kinda rambled on, but I hope this helps!

helloworld0987 · 07-15-2008, 02:27 PM

at most schools you either take AB or BC. this is because BC includes all of the material on AB, in addition to only a few other topics.

my school is annoying and made me take AB junior year, BC senior year. senior year was a huge waste of time, we got through the extra BC material within the first 2 months of school and spent the rest of the year either taking practice tests or (more often) convincing my teacher to let us out of class, lol.