<p>As of today (March 15) I have just finished the derivatives unit. I still need to do integration and series; how should I go about that and find time? I also have the SAT, APUSH, and SAT Subj Test Physics and Math 2 to study for. It would be great if I could get advice on how to study for those alongside Calc BC as well. I have 8-9 weeks before the BC exam (our school always does the exams on makeup date). </p>
<p>Try AB. As of today, our BC class (which is 12 days behind schedule due to snow days) is already on Taylor Series. Honestly, to get a firm grip on integration AND series in less than 2 months will be really difficult, and you’ll probably just cram superficially. But the AB kids at our school are midway into integration.
APUSH subject test=take APUSH, and you’re ready; Princeton rev. (any year)helps a lot though (750 for me)
Math 2: Highly Recommend Richard Ku’s book (barron) because of its comprehensiveness (EASY 800 for me)</p>
<p>I don’t know if I would be able to switch to AB, because I already signed up for BC. However, (long story) I am only using the BC exam as a means of getting into a course senior year, so it’s like an admissions exam - which I only have to get a 4 on. If I could switch I definitely would. There is a long spring break April (one week) and during that week I will literally go until I collapse. Is it possible, therefore, to devote about 10 hours a week to study for BC and get at least a 4? I’m off Facebook (blocked it off) which means that I can find the time. </p>
<p>If “cramming superficially” isn’t synonymous with “get 3 or lower on the exam”, then I’m fine with it.</p>
<p>I have an awesome teacher for APUSH. I don’t think I need to study that much. I never planned to take the SAT Subj Test for USH but is it easy? Easier/on par/harder than APUSH exam? </p>
<p>I’m pretty good at physics and math, so I think I can get off with minimal studying for Math 2 and Physics.</p>
<p>Well, I can’t say much more without knowing how competent you actually are. Just study hard and do your best and the best possible outcome will occur in terms of the bc test.
Furthermore, even if you don’t think you need to “study much”, your current skill may not be good enough.
Take a practice test in real conditions. If u can get 750+ on them, then maybe you’re right. If not, better review more, because your score on the actual test may very well be worse.</p>
<p>Well, generally what I mean by not studying much is not having to cram new content, i.e. only doing practice tests once in a while just so that I won’t forget the content. When I take practice tests I try to learn from them, so I take down notes on the margin of the test if something important comes up, and then I do actually go back to those notes.</p>
<p>I teach AP Calc and not sure if this will help. Even with snow days we have passed integration and series. </p>
<p>If you take the BC exam, you will also receive an AB subscore which can be used with/without BC score for college credit/placement.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you!</p>
<p>If you work for the 10 hours/day during break, you could easily study for BC. If you are good at math, integrals really aren’t that hard. It’s a bit of memorization, and then learning how to do it, but then it’s basically the same thing over and over. Series really aren’t that hard either. It’s a lot more memoriziation than math, and if you studied hard, you could probably learn everything in a day or two. </p>
<p>For APUSH, you can find a couple study guides online that basically outline the whole course. You can also find coursenotes (for the American Pageant, if that’s the book you use) which are really good also. For the SAT US History, it’s about the same difficulty (maybe a tiny bit easier) than the AP test. I got a 4 on the AP test (prob cause my essays though) and a 770 on SAT. </p>
<p>I can’t help you with Physics, but for Math 2, you should probably only need to do a couple practice tests (you must be pretty good at math if you are self-studying BC). Make sure they’re official practice tests, so you might want to get the collegeboard official book for all subject tests. I only took one official practice test and got an 800 pretty easily.</p>
<p>This really depends on how good you are at math and how much you can cram. I crammed all of the series unit in 2 days before the test (yes I know thats crazy) WHILE preppng for 6 other tests including AP spanish test the day before calc. And yes, I got a 5</p>
<p>But this is because I am an idiot. If you devote yourself and manage your time well, its perfecrly feasible. Spring Break is a great opportunity to catch up and finish integration. Just dont panic and make sure you have a teavher or something you can refer to ahould you get stumped on a certain unit</p>
<p>No teacher. But there’s online, and I have subscription to educator.com, which is basically a website with videos on almost every STEM AP (probably every) and they have example problems that are on the level of the AP ones and they walk you through how to do it, so that’s helpful. But I don’t have a teacher; I can usually just go on Yahoo answers/educator.com or something though.</p>