<p>Ok so at my school the math goes like this</p>
<p>geometry
algebra II
precalculus
AB/BC calc Statistics</p>
<p>and i'm going into 11th grade so I would be taking precal. But I took a CBE(credit by exam) test for precal during the summer which I thought i miserably failed but ended up passing with a 99 for the first semester and a 90 for the 2nd. </p>
<p>The thing is I barely studied the trig identities and paremetric functions and the rest of the hard stuff. So I was wondering if going into BC calc would be too difficult? And is it possible to take AB junior yr and then BC senior? I want to take BC calc senior to take Physics C with it. So could anyone just give me advice and if taking both AB/BC in diff years would be ok?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Some people say it’s pointless, but I took AB last year (junior) and am taking BC this fall (senior). It’s very doable to go straight to BC without AB, kids do it all the time, but there’s nothing wrong with doing both if there’s not an alternate math you want to take instead.</p>
<p>I’m just worried BC calc will be too difficult for me because I didn’t take the precal class. I don’t really know the stuff from the 2nd semester well which is basically a bunch of the calculus stuff</p>
<p>I would suggest going into AB junior year, then BC senior year. For BC, it goes at a faster pace than AB so if you don’t really know much from the second semester of precalculus, then you would probably struggle a lot.</p>
<p>Here is a page from a university detailing expectations of what students without AP credit should know before enrolling in a calculus course. An on-line placement test is included. You can try the placement test; if you get green on most areas, you are ready for first semester freshman calculus. AP Calculus BC approximates the first and second semesters of freshman calculus at a similar pace to what you will find in a university, so if you get green on most areas, you should be ready for AP Calculus BC.</p>
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