<p>Is it possible to skip to Calculus BC, without taking precalculus or Calculus AB? When I was in middle school I skipped Pre-Algebra and went to Algebra, I passed Algebra with one of the top grades (99.23%), while other students were struggling...anyways, it is possible or not. Another question is if only pre-calculus is skippable, I asked my math coordinator and they said "No, it covers trignometry".</p>
<p>The coordinator is correct. You need to know some Trig. before learning Calculus.</p>
<p>If you cover that trigonometry by yourself, then you should be okay. To skip without any self study is a bad idea.</p>
<p>So, if a buy a Trig textbook and self study over the summer; and upon returning to school I can ask my counselor to let me go to Calculus AB or BC?</p>
<p>At my school they would have wanted people to test out of the class they’re skipping, meaning take a final for that class and pass it. My precalc class also had a few other disjoint topics, like logic and vectors and such.</p>
<p>If you said to your counselor that you wanted to self study the required math over the summer, they may be more able to help you with what you need to do to do that.</p>
<p>As I am only a sophomore in Algebra II…I am to “supposedly” take Pre-Calculus, but I know I won’t need it, just as I skipped Pre-Algebra. I should talk to my counselor about it, it they do let me skip it, what should I skip to AB or BC? Which means if I skip to BC, Calculus III will be available.</p>
<p>Why is everyone so eager to skip multiple math courses? Is it some kind of race? Don’t you want to enjoy the courses and learn everything about each subject?</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s not a race going through math courses. Pre-calc is somewhat skippable. You’ll have to cover the trig by yourself, but I don’t see the gain in skipping pre calc. I feel like the jump from pre-calc to Calc was pretty big, and I don’t think it should be taken too lightly.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t recommend it. Algebra II is a very easy course. Just about every single person who struggles in Calc BC had a 90%> grade in Algebra II. You would be skipping geometry and pre-calc/trigonometry. Your best bet would be to take geometry and then skip trig.</p>
<p>No, its not a race; In my area, college fees are inflating. In the near future, I am going to be a Chemical or Computer Hardware Engineer. Advanced courses are a simplistic, I’m beginning to lose interest because of the " difficulty". Back to the question…so my best bet is to skip Algebra II and Precalculus? I think I can handle that by self studying. By the way, my math coordinator said pre algebra isn’t skippable, but I did and it’s a breeze</p>
<p>why on earth would you try to skip calc 1 before taking calc 2? skip precalc but dont skip calc 1.</p>
<p>^At my (and I think most) schools, Calc BC is Calc 1 and 2. You one or the other, Calc AB is slower paced and is just Calc 1, Calc BC is faster and is both 1 and 2.</p>
<p>So First of all I have to agree that Pre-calc is somewhat important because trig is unavoidable. But I believe if you have the right discipline that this will not be a big issue if you don’t do it. But my biggest concern is that you seem to plan on skipping calc AB before taking BC. Although they cover different topics I think that it is essential to get an understanding of AB before you do BC. People who get 5’s on BC do so because they already went through AB. You would have double duty and just because you understood Algebra 1, (which is a very easy course) does not mean you will understand Calc BC easily you will find that there is a whole different caliber of students who make it all the way to calc BC and that you will probably be the one struggling. I am not saying this because I am making a judgment call on your intelligence but rather to let you know what you are probably getting yourself into.</p>
<p>That’s odd, at my school AB is Calc 1, and BC is Calc 2. At my school AB is a pre-req for BC. So skipping AB isn’t even possible where I went to high school. </p>
<p>Personally I would advise you not to skip these classes. The key to math is a good foundation, once you have that foundation, building everything else on top of it is easy.</p>
<p>To QwertyKey:</p>
<p>Yes, same here at my school. AB is Calculus I, all they cover in there is a short review of PreCalc and Limits and etc…BC, on the other hand, is both I and II, but it is faster paced, as QwertyKey said. It all depends on the school, I’ll probably plan to just skip Pre-Calculus and go to AB, if AB is too easy; I should then move on the BC. But, why I want to skip these classes it because Geometry and Algebra were so simple, my classmates always stuggled with it, and a challenge is always great.</p>
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<p>Did anyone else laugh at this quote? I thought it was pretty hilarious.</p>
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<p>Funny, eh…It was a typo I meant “are simplistic”…</p>
<p>That isn’t the part that is funny. The part that is funny is calling advanced courses simplistic.</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>at my school AB is calc 1 and BC is calc 2, and you learn different things in both, and the administration heavily discourages taking BC without AB first. So some people have calc 1 as a “slower paced calc” and calc 2 as “faster”? dont make sense to me.</p>
<p>Calc AB and BC are terms made up by the AP system. They technically refer to exams, not classes. The BC exam covers all the material from AB, plus BC. How each high school chooses to teach it is up to the school, whether it is in one year or two (or semesters or however you choose to measure it). My high school only offered the AB exam, and as such, the Calc class only taught the AB material over an entire year. Nice, slow, and boring.</p>