<p>I've been debating between AB and BC for my senior year. I'm a very good math student. I took geometry freshman year, algebra II/Trig sophmore year and am currently taking math analysis. I haven't taken honors but I'm usually at the top of my class in regular. How much difference between the two should i expect? any opinions? and if you have any advice, please tell! </p>
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<p>BC.
AB is 3/4 of BC. Not too bad.
Personally, I found calculus to be easier than trig.</p>
<p>Anyone who is openly good at math should take BC.</p>
<p>will takin ab look bad if you’re going to bean engineer?</p>
<p>Nope .</p>
<p>I would take BC if you feel up to it. It isn’t much more than AB from what I heard</p>
<p>If you havn’t taken any honors math classes and your junior year math class was Math Analysis, I would advise against both AB and BC, although choose AB if you really insist. </p>
<p>At least in my school, Calc AB/BC is consisted of basically entirely accelerated honors math students who took either Pre Calc or Algebra II in their freshman years.</p>
<p>“At least in my school, Calc AB/BC is consisted of basically entirely accelerated honors math students who took either Pre Calc or Algebra II in their freshman years.”</p>
<p>So the people who start with Geometry at your school just take 3 years of math only?</p>
<p>They take regular Calculus, how do you even reach that assumption?</p>
<p>Take BC if you are good at math. It looks a lot better and some colleges don’t accept AB for math credit hours</p>
<p>Unless you fail it, I think that could be described as “hurting”. </p>
<p>And in response to your sarcasm, my school requires AB before BC, so most accelerated students do indeed take BC as a senior.</p>
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<p>Because at most schools there’s no such thing as regular Calculus. This is partly because Calculus is by definition a college level math class, so you should be able to get some form of college credit. The other reason is that you can’t get much more dumbed down than Calc AB. If what you’re taking is simpler than that, I would question whether you’re actually learning Calculus.</p>
<p>And I would suggest taking BC because it’s really not that much harder, and the schools that require AB before BC are really doing their students a disservice.</p>
<p>So your saying at most schools, where the majority of students takes Pre Calculus/Introduction to Analysis in their junior year, they all proceed to AB despite receiving B’s and C’s in a non-honors, non-AP math course? </p>
<p>And its unfortunate that you choose to generalize every point you have, Calc AB is a somewhat challenging course at my school, and the AB AP test is ridiculously easy for the majority.</p>
<p>If you’re at the top of your class definitely take BC. Over here AB is for the kind of smart, but not really type of kids since it’s just BC slowed down a lot. We have Calculus Honors which is for the un-intelligent but not really. And then there’s the lowest division of Regular Calculus. But, of course there’s a couple of people who never take Calculus ever.</p>
<p>^ What a coincidence TCBH, two posters in a row from schools that offer, gasp, regular Calculus?!</p>
<p>What ThisCouldBeHeavn said… But regardless I guess Pre-Calc classes at my High School were legit enough that you didn’t have to take all honors to take Calc BC. I started my Freshman year with regular (non-honors) Geometry and took Calc BC my senior year.</p>
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<p>Nope. Very few people take calculus at all.
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<p>It’s unfortunate that you’re incredulous that anyone could draw different conclusions from their personal experiences.</p>
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<p>Pretty much. There are a lot of people on here from NJ, so it wasn’t particularly unlikely.</p>
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<p>I certainly believe everyone can draw different conclusions from personal experience, but as you failed to notice, I was surprised that you believe that every Calc AB course is extremely “dumbed down” based solely off of your “personal experiences”.</p>
<p>In my experience with Calc this year, If youre gonna take it all, you should just take it for all you can. AKA take the harder one.</p>
<p>It’s not based on my personal experience, it’s simply a matter of the content of the course. Obviously any teacher can make the class superficially more difficult by requiring knowledge of arcane functions and increasing the algebraic complexity, but the course as defined by the College Board does not cover a lot.</p>
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