Should I take AP Calculus AB or BC?

logical123
Sun, 01 May 2011 16:57:11 +0000

BC. AB and BC are taught in the same class at my school, and BC, for all intensive purposes, only covers one more broad subject: sequences/series/sums. If you can deal with slightly more difficult problems on topics that span both AB and BC (like, take BC class, but before signing up, test yourself and then take either AB or BC), then BC all the way. You can get basically all of the series questions wrong and still have a 4 or 5, if you do very well on everything else.

Oh. And LaGrange error bound. Which no one ever remembers.

Calc is easy. Just don’t think of calc as math and algebra, think of it as ‘fake’, in that it’s all pretty abstract and just rules (‘tricks’) coupled with intuition.