AB or BC Calculus Senior Year?

travelbug
Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:24:02 +0000

I’d definitely say AB! Like grouptheory’s school, my high school offers AB as the first year of calc and BC only to seniors who already have AB under their belt. I am currently in AB and very thankful that BC was not option because, as your run-of-the-mill perfectionist, I probably would have taken the higher level course and regretted it.

Calc requires complete mastery of trig, precalc, geometry, algebra I and II, and a lot of those silly arithmetic rules you forgot as soon as you reached middle school. My advice is not to overwhelm yourself; take AB and give yourself the opportunity to recall all of your former math instruction rather than take BC and be obligated to cover more material. Colleges see AP Calc as AP Calc.