Calc AB or Calc BC?

basedchem
Sun, 12 Jul 2015 03:48:06 +0000

Hello, I am a rising senior looking to spruce up my courseload for the coming year. So far, this is what is registered on the school’s registar:

AP Calc AB
AP Bio (switching to AP Physics 1 asap)
AP Lit
AP Macro(semester)
AP Econ (semester)
Lab Aide (I would take another science here, but my school prohibits double enrollment of subjects due to budget problems)

As you can probably tell by the title of my thread, I am considering a switch to Calc BC. Calc BC at my school has an infamous reputation for being extremely hard (people have legit gotten raw 0/100s on tests), but also rewarding (because of grade inflation) and people usually do well on the AP test because of our teachers (>90% pass rate, one class got all 5s). I don’t hear much about AB because not that many people take it, but I hear that people who do take it usually regret it because they realize they had the time to take BC. Regarding my previous experience in math: I got 2 As in Geometry, 2Bs in Alg 2/Trig (it’s not like I didn’t understand the material, I was depressed during this time), and a B and then an A in Pre-Calc H. I want to major in Chem in college. Should I switch to BC?