<p>hey guys,</p>
<p>i just wanted to know if i should take AB calc or BC calc next year (my junior year). THe BC calc teacher is a really strict and hard but if i get through BC i take Multivariable Calc Senior year, which is supposedly looks good for college. Tell me what you think.</p>
<p>well, BC is like a full year college course, AB is 3/4 a full year college course or w/e, so if youre up to the challenge of BC, go for it!!!!</p>
<p>there really isn't that much more covered in BC than AB, just take BC, you get the AB subscore anyway</p>
<p>If the AB teacher is really good, take the AB class. I don't see why its worth dealing with a crappy teacher just so you can have a class that 'looks good for college". Plus, the crappier the teacher, the worse your grades (or if you're a super kid like all the CCers here, the worse you feel about the actual subject and yourself).</p>
<p>If the teachers are the same, take BC. Its the same as AB only you cover a little more. I don't know why they even diveded these classes.</p>
<p>If you have a pretty strong math background, then take BC. The material is a bit more than AB, which means the BC class moves along faster.</p>
<p>Edit: If the BC teacher is "crappy", then you might want to take AB, but from what the OP said, it sounded like the BC teacher is good, but just strict</p>
<p>I had the worst teacher possible for BC. Like the worst in my life. We didn't do anything in class. He never taught, he never explained anything. I'm not even exaggerating. But hey, all of us still did well, the concepts are pretty easy and can be self taught. Math doesn't really require that great of a teacher, just a good textbook and good practice.</p>
<p>Atomic, that's just you. Some people won't get math by looking at examples from a textbook. Need I remind you that the examples aren't EVER as hard as the actual problems! (>:( grr!) If the concepts are that easy, and I was in your position, I would have gone with the nice AB teacher and taken the BC exam.</p>
<p>Well he/she never said the teacher was a bad teacher, just that he was hard and strict. A harder teacher will better prepare one for the AP test. There isn't that much extra material anyway in BC. The BC exam is 75% AB and 25% BC. And colleges definitely like to see BC instead of AB if you have the option, so take it.</p>
<p>take BC calc, all the cool kids do it.</p>
<p>I would take AP Calculus AB, and do AP Calculus BC as a senior, that way you end up with more AP credits, you dont get AP credit for Multivariables.</p>
<p>uh...no offense, but what exactly do you consider cool. that comment that you made was not cool at all.</p>
<p>oboes thats like the worst idea ever</p>
<p>why?..you didnt put why..</p>
<p>Ahehe, oboe. I'll explain in atom's absense.</p>
<p>AB is the same as BC except BC covers a little more. When you take the BC exam, you're essential taking the AB exam + 1/4 extra whatnots.</p>
<p>So when you take the BC exam, you get credit for whatever you learn in AB. So your strategy... makes no sense and there's really no point. You don't get more credits.</p>
<p>o, I thought AB was 1/2 credit in college and BC is 1 full credit in college....thanks for your rude reply though.</p>
<p>Rude? Well how would you like me to put it? I have a problem with sugar coating. Your strategy is exactly what I said it was. And mind you, I never used the word 'stupid' which is a big step for me. XD</p>
<p>"it makes no sense and there is really no point"..thats insinuating it..thanks anyway though...</p>
<p>Also, in any case...yake which ever AP Calculus, but dont do it to take Multivariables as a senior, why not take AP Statistics as a junior and AP Calculus BC as a senior, that way you still get more AP credits.</p>
<p>What quite said wasn't rude, it was the truth. And multivariable calc is a great class, I would take it if I could but going to a college during the day to take it would just be more trouble than it was worth. Taking AP stats as a junior and then calc as a senior is a bad idea because then there's a huge gap inbetween calc and all the classes that were meant to prepare you for calc. Stats is still a good class to take though.</p>
<p>"well, BC is like a full year college course, AB is 3/4 a full year college course or w/e"</p>
<p>"o, I thought AB was 1/2 credit in college and BC is 1 full credit in college"</p>
<p>Depends on the college.
Cal Poly Pomona: AB = 1 quarter, 3 BC = 2 quarters, 4/5 BC = 3 quarters (first year series)
UCI & USC: 5 BC = 2 quarters (or 1 semester or something...it's not a full year)
Caltech: 5 BC + entrance exam = 1 quarter :p</p>