<p>Alright, what is the difference between AB & BC? I got a B in precal (i'm a sophomore) and signed up for AB. Do i take BC my senior year, or do i take calc2 at the cc?
Is there a difference is pre-requisites between AB/BC such as precal grade? PSAT Scores? ( I got B/B in precal & 61 on psat math). Thanks!</p>
<p>Usually AB gives you one semester of college credit (Calculus I) and BC gives you two semesters (Calculus I and II). For senior year, I would advise taking calc2 at the cc since you could take calc3 during the spring. There are no differences in pre-requisites between AB and BC, but schools might choose to put the stronger math kids in BC.</p>
<p>Calc AB and BC cover much of the same material (think of it as one covering topics A+B and one covering A+B+C). The only difference is that C, which is stuff like derivatives of parametric equations, series, and different methods of integration. I'd personally recommend BC, since it's hardly different at all from AB and if you take them sequencially you'll end up covering the same material twice. I switched from AB calc to BC halfway through the year, and I only had to learn one thing from the first semester that was different between the two courses.</p>
<p>But it's all up to you.</p>
<p>I took BC this year (I'm a senior), and I think BC's better cause well for one, it's cheaper because you're only taking one test (Instead of paying $82 for AB and then $82 for BC the year after that).
But some people think that the pace is quicker and they can't keep up, so it depends on how long each class is in your school (for me, we had math 2 periods a day, which is like 90 minutes).
Oh and I didn't even take precal, and it wasn't the toughest course I had this year.
I hope that helped, or at least made sense.</p>
<p>BC also has an insanely easy curve (40% get 5's) whereas AB has a much harder curve, where 20% get 5's.</p>