Am I prepared for calc bc?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I want to skip precalculus next year and take calculus, I already reviewed things in pre-calculus like more logs, polars, decomposing rational equations, some function concepts, more trig equations and formulas. I now started studying out of a calc ab/bc book. So far I know how to differentiate: product rule, quotient, chain rule and how to graph a function while finding the relative minimum and maximum. I'm also doing integration right now, with u-substitution and how to find the area of bounded function. Do you think I could survive Calc bc next year, this is all prep i did. What do you think I need to prepare more of?</p>

<p>Also I will be taking these courses this year in 10th grade:
ap computer science
ap world history
and maybe calc bc.</p>

<p>Do you think i'm prepared for calc bc and it won't be too stressful? What more do I need to prepare on?</p>

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<p>I am also planning on skipping pre-calculus, although I have not gotten that far. At my school, if you take the sequence of Honors Algebra I (8th), Honors Geometry (9th), and Honors Algebra II (10th), you skip pre-calculus. I really have no idea why. But, you do have to take AP Calculus AB to take AP Calculus BC, with no pre-calculus. What I was thinking of doing was taking pre-calc. over the summer online, moving straight to AP Calculus BC my Junior year, then taking AP Statistics my Senior year. I have heard that the first semester of AP Calc. BC is just a repeat/review of AP Calc. AB, as some schools offer AP Calc. BC as a 1 semester course. Also, you get an AB subscore on the BC exam. </p>

<p>If you feel like you can do it, and you have prepared enough, talk with your counselor to see if you can go straight to BC.</p>