<p>i did very well in both my pre-calc and trig classes. No challenge there. Is calc really that much harder?</p>
<p>some may argue it’s easier…</p>
<p>What I hated about some trig or pre-calc is that memorization was uber-important (if i recall correctly). Like conic sections and rotated conics; I hated those things. In calc, you could just simply memorize a lot of the stuff, but, not being adept at this myself, I took to deriving most of the more difficult equations/formulas on tests, which worked very well.</p>
<p>AP Calculus (and single variable calculus in general) to me is really easy - easier than algebra II and pre-calc because it is more general and u don’t need to know specific formulae, just “rules”</p>
<p>hmmmm Calcu BC for me was only hard because I had little time to study this year. But I crammed the last week before the test and I got 5 on the BC and 5 on the subset. Calcu has always been interesting to me.</p>
<p>ALSO, the AP Calcu test is very predictable. I mean, yes it is the longest AP test out there (4 hours), but after doing some officially released tests and released FR, I found the test VERY straight forward. Not many surprises at all.</p>
<p>I was self-studying AP Calc AB while taking Honors Precalculus. In my opinion, AP Calc AB is generally easier than Precalculus. Of course, there is a lot of differentiation and integration formulas to memorize, but they’ll eventually be common sense, except for those trigonometric and inverse trigonometric formulas.</p>
<p>I’m a BC calc teacher and I’ve taught pretty much every level of high school math, and IMO second-semester Algebra II is the most difficult class in high school for a typical kid.</p>
<p>I don’t necessarily mean that the math itself in Alg. II is harder, but a typical kid taking Calculus in high school is probably pretty bright in math already (like I assume you are), and if that’s the case, then Calculus shouldn’t be very tough for you at all. Sure there are a fair number of topics covered, but they’re generally well connected and it ‘flows’.</p>
<p>On the other hand, a typical kid in Alg. II isn’t necessarily that great in math, so being expected to learn brand-new unrelated concepts like conic sections, series/sequences, logarithms, and probability is a very daunting undertaking.</p>
<p>Lol, I thought pre-algebra through trigonometry was ridiculously easy. Then again, I haven’t learned anything math related in the past four years besides Geometry. Everything else was crammed the night before of the test and forgotten the day after.</p>
<p>Maybe Calc will be a wake up call for me?</p>
<p>My school has an integrated math program, so I can’t really compare calc to algebra II or whatever other people have taken, but I have been in advanced math for my age throughout high school. I found math IV, taken before calc, to be challenging but not crazy, and even though calc was definitely more difficult, it was never extremely frustrating or impossible. My class was AB though, so I can see how BC would be significantly more challenging.</p>
<p>calc ab was a breeze for me. aced the class, aced the test.</p>
<p>granted, i’m a cc’er.</p>
<p>In our school, AB is a pre-req to BC. I’ve gotten 5’s on both + subscore. In general, calc is easy if you know how to apply the tools you possess. Derivative and integral are not difficult concepts, but you should know how to apply them to a variety of situations.</p>
<p>Calc has the most predictable FRQ’s out of all the AP exams imo. Just do past years’ exams, and you’ll see that there are only about 8-9 different types of questions they ask.</p>