AP Calc BC

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<p>Next year, I'll be a junior. I will be taking AP Calc AB. However, I heard others on CC say that AP Calc BC and AB overlap a lot; as in many of the AP exam questions are the same.</p>

<p>I'm thinking about taking the BC exam next year, while taking AP Calc AB in school. Would this be plausible? Our school doesn't have a Calc BC class (they are planning to make one by 2012, senior year). I don't really want to take BC as a senior, especially if a lot of the material is repeat.</p>

<p>Could I study BC (through PR, Barrons, stuff like that) while taking AB in class? For the AP exam, would I take BOTH the AB and BC exam, or just the BC exam?</p>

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<p>You can take the BC exam. BC is just AB + the last three chapters in the calc textbook. However, you cannot take AB and BC in the same year because AB and BC have the some of the same questions and three of the FR questions in both are the same every year.</p>

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<p>Alright, so collegeboard won’t LET me take both. So I just tell my school to swap my AB exam to the BC exam?</p>

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<p>^Yes, that sounds like a feasible option.</p>