<p>Is it realistic to self-study for the Calc AB test next year along with 3-5 other AP tests?</p>
<p>I’ll be taking Pre-Calc next year, which is basically Trig review + more, and Calc A, so I’d only really have to study for the Calc B portion.</p>
<p>Doable?</p>
<p>Are you self-studying Calc AB and 3-5 other AP tests, or are you taking the classes for 3-5 AP tests and self-studying Calc AB?</p>
<p>Taking AP Chem and APUSH in school, self-studying for Psychology, and possibly Music Theory and a few others (easier ones like HuG or APES)</p>
<p>So classes for 2, self-study for like 1-3.
Calc AB would also be self-study on top of these 1-3.</p>
<p>I think you can handle adding AP Calculus to that load. Much of your decision should be based on what kind of a math student you are. Calculus deals more with conceptual topics rather than just plug and chug. That was my main challenge to overcome as I took it this year. I was the kind of math student where all you had to do was show me the process and I could plug in the numbers and figure it out. I had to train myself to solve word problems, which I wasn’t used to doing very much of before. AP Calculus is riddled with word problems, especially considering that the whole second half of the test consists of them. If you’re ok with working with concepts rather than straight computation you should excel at AP Calculus. This is mainly because you’ll find that the computations for AP Calculus (especially AB) are not rigorous at all. It basically comes down to whether or not you understand which concept to use for a given problem. I hope that helps. :)</p>
<p>Hmm. I’m more of the plug/chug type, but I’ll take a look at it and see how I’ll do.</p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>