Were your AP calculus scores easy 5s, or were you lucky to get 3s?
@ucbalumnus that’s exactly it…well, I got 5’s on BC and the AB subscore; I was pretty sure I got them too since our teacher has a great track record and only 1-2 people even get 4’s who take his class.
I’m sure if we had a different teacher who had a different style, I would do better. I understood the Calc BC material, but it just took me longer and there was no extra time since it was very fast paced. I spent a long time trying to make up for the Calc AB stuff that I was still a little shaky on.
After the second half of the year, I improved a lot and started understanding the material, doing better on exams. But I just don’t feel like I belong on the math track that I am…I wanted to be the “best” by advancing to the top math track with only 3 other people, but I’m just really not like them and don’t really enjoy this higher math all that much. I got an 89 overall in Calc BC, which I feel lucky to have since our teacher’s grading system was very harsh (no hw or participation grades, only 1-2 test grades…but that’s really beside the point as college is full of those professors too I bet).
@bopper well, I don’t think I would get a 60…I’m certainly not someone who gets 100s on every assignment, but I do have a good work ethic at least. I’m simply concerned that the class being a lot harder won’t really matter because a lot of people say that GPA is more important.
If you got 5 on BC and the AB subscore, then you should be strong enough student in math and have a good knowledge of calculus, so that you should not be afraid of introductory statistics with calculus or multivariable calculus.
Your teacher actually does things more like college does in basing the grade on tests. But it looks like his/her tests and grading is relatively grade-deflated compared to AP tests and grading, unlike the usual case where high school grading is inflated compared to AP grading. However, actual college courses in multivariable calculus and introductory statistics (with or without calculus) will be semester long courses, rather than year long courses that they may be in high school.