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<p>This may be particularly true if the student attended a high school that had the two year freshman calculus plan (AB one year, the rest of BC the following year, instead of teaching BC in one year at college pace immediately after precalculus).</p>
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<p>On the other hand, from what I remember of when I was in school, honors math courses in college tended to be populated mainly by those who were a semester or year ahead in math, so an honors sophomore level math course had mostly freshmen in it.</p>