<p>What skills are needed for AP Calculus BC? Will reviewing in Precalculus help you? What about Data analysis (statistics)?</p>
<p>You don’t need to know any statistics, but you should be thoroughly proficient with algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. Do review precalc if you have any doubts about your skills.</p>
<p>Trig will help you a bunch, umm you have to be very good with algebra, and you better memorize that circle! Have to know you radians, degrees, cosines, sines, and tangents.</p>
<p>Overall, Calc is extremely easy, in my honest opinion.</p>
<p>calculus is a piece of cake if you have a solid background in algebra, trig, and precalc. stat doesn’t really play an important role in calc.</p>
<p>So basically if I study super hard for Math IIC then Calc will be a piece of cake for me?</p>
<p>from my experience
only 5% of what i learned in precal appeared in ap calc</p>
<p>make sure you know how to integrate and disintegrate
u-sub
after that, its easy</p>
<p>calc is a piece of pie. Know your radians/unit circle.</p>
<p>It depends on what you want from the course. I’ve known people who didn’t even know the definition of the derivative or the integral (and of course, 99% don’t know the definition of the limit), and they still got 5s on the exams.</p>
<p>So if you’re just looking for a good grade/AP score, all you need to know is a bunch of mathematical methods for calculating limits, derivatives and integrals. You also need to know how to apply calculus, so be sure that, given certain information, you can make a mathematical equation pretty easily, because you’ll be working with a lot of equations and variables. Also, unless you really understand the concepts, you will be doing a lot of memorizing.</p>
<p>For calculus BC, you will also need to know Series and a few other topics (polar/parametric equations if you haven’t already learnt them and integration by parts), besides knowing how to take the derivative, integral, U substitution, riemann sums, volumes of revolution, and other stuff. You know, it’s easy stuff, all the skills you need are a somewhat functioning brain and a pencil and you’re good. 
Oh, I’ve only taken Calculus AB and I got a 4 on it due to the incredibly hard FRQ’s (which you will most likely not encounter on the next ap test) :p</p>
<p>There’s really only one thing you need to know… ALGEBRA!</p>
<p>Seriously, I see that most people can do the differentiation and integration rules, but it’s the algebra that trips them up. You would not believe the number of people I’ve seen who do silly things like not factoring before canceling, FOIL incorrectly, don’t add like terms, can’t add, don’t know how to treat exponents, use trig functions wrong, and the list goes on and on.</p>
<p>Pre-calc you probably need to get the trig functions down, and know how to evaluate those. Stats is not needed, as it’s almost a completely different field.</p>
<p>^ Agreed. But you need practice - it’s math! A lot of it is memorization and correct application.</p>
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<p>Math IIC doesn’t test calculus; it’s more like precalc/algebra 2. In a nutshell, you have to be fairly proficient with the trigonometry and limits covered in a precalc course. Calc BC is not hard; just a few more concepts than AB.
Topics: Limits, Differentiation, Integration, Max-min, Riemenn Summation, Logarithms, Areas/Volumes of Functions, Series, L’Hopital/Improper Integrals, Polar/Parametric Equations. Check out AP Central.</p>
<p>^ Would Calculus Made Easy work? The last chapter is on Taylor series.</p>
<p>^ Never heard of it. If you’re looking to self-study, get a proper textbook, a nice review prepbook, and past AP FRQs.</p>
<p>The ability to eliminate the word “sleep” from your vocabulary</p>