<p>@AngEverlasting I was misplaced in my math courses when I changed schools and didn’t know the American system lets you take higher courses based on how good you are. So i was in precalc in my junior year (very simple and easy, loved trig and identities). The highest course offered is Calc BC at my school. So I decided to sign up for the exam, and with 4 hours a week I was able to cover the course in a bit less than a month. I ended up scoring a 4 on the AP exam. I just didn’t practice at all so I didn’t have the speed, otherwise it was very easy.
This year when time came for scheduling, they dropped BC because I was the only one interested. Thus I lost hope, because I was misplaced and then they ripped my hard work out of my hands. Nonetheless, I signed up for the BC exam which is on wednesday (in 3 days). I procrastinated a bit too much, and i started studying this morning and now I’m done, I honestly don’t even know why they have to make a separate course and don’t just have AB and BC together as just one calculus course, the extra concepts in BC are a joke. I feel confident that I will score a 5 on the AB subscore and a 4 if not a 5 on the BC score. You are probably wandering as to how I did this, its very simple. I recommend these books for you to study from.
AB: How to Ace Calculus (ISBN 9780716731603)
BC: How to Ace the rest of Calculus (ISBN 9780716741479)
BC (not really necessary): Be Prepared for the AP Calculus Exam (ISBN 0972705554)
Practice: The humongous book of a thousand Calculus Problems. Don’t have the ISBN handy
Read the whole how to ace calculus, and understand it thoroughly. I found it extremely enjoyable because its full of humour, unfortunately I found it after my AB exam - I just with I found it earlier. For BC identify the concepts and go over them in the how to ace the rest of calculus (it covers topics beyond BC) and then just to be on the safe side skim the be prepared book to make sure you didn’t miss anything (be prepared is completely optional and you don’t need it) Then you would want to go over problems in the 1000 calculus problem book, it has step by step explanations and is very good for practice, do not forget the practice. Another book that i saw online and wish I had seen before is Schaum’s 3000 solved problems in calculus, I am not too sure about it but it seems good, plus it will help you further out later on with higher level courses.</p>
<p>If you are as good as you claim to be, then this should be a breeze and you might even be able to cover this within 2 weeks or even 1 if you work hard. Just get these books (the two how to ace calc books will cost you 40 bucks) and you’ll be good to go. And please don’t go with princeton, barons, or those, I tried them and I just found it a waste of time and money. </p>
<p>I understand I might get some heat with my opinions, but please keep in mind everyone is entitled to their opinions and I accept yours, so please, positive feedback and criticism is welcomed but don’t go trying to call me a BSer and say its impossible to cover this that easily. </p>