Algebra II to AP Calculus BC?

EddieD
Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:42:50 +0000

Too many posts to read through so I’ll only answer the OP’s original question. You probably could take calc BC without too many troubles (my school also did precalc -> calc ab and precalc -> calc bc). And I’ve joked at a couple points that pre calc is useless. Make sure you know parametric equations and polar coordinates though. They won’t be covered very much in calc bc but you’ll be expected to know them.

Though may I ask why your doing this? There’s nothing after calc bc that counts towards college college credit in the AP curriculum (I suppose you could go to a community college for lin al/calc III if your that committed). And since you did skipped pre algebra, your most likely already ahead, so you’ll end up not taking math junior or senior year, which probably isn’t good for an engineer.

And, seriously, other kids will prejudge you for being smug. Not that you have to care what others think about you, just saying it’ll probably happen.

tl;dr You can do it, it just seems silly