<p>I am coming to Berkeley as a freshman in the fall. Besides my IB tests, I am taking AP Calculus BC and AP French. My AP French score should be pretty good because I like French and we have been preparing a lot for the test. However, I am expecting that my AP calc. score will be pretty terrible because I have a horrible teacher who hasn't taught anything.<br>
At my school we had our AP pre-registration sesssion where we filled in all our information and I said that I wanted my scores to be sent to Berkeley. Nothing bad will happen if Berkeley sees my AP calc score and it is really bad, right? I don't want to not send any of my scores because I want them to have my French score. What should I do? Just send my scores as is?</p>
<p>Well nervousnelly, my Calculus AB teacher was probably worse than yours. My teacher spent the first SEMESTER on chapter TWO (differentiation) because the majority of the class didn’t get it. When you ask him questions, he does his trademark “Lick the lip” routine and cooly continue on. I studied by myself and I got a 4. It shouldn’t be too hard if you just try!</p>
<p>Though AB is not the same as BC, it shouldn’t make too much of a difference.</p>
<p>ya castel, that is pretty bad. my teacher does do the “lick the lip” and he doesn’t answer your questions and he looks at you like your stupid. but its almost over so i’ll live.</p>
<p>my AP calc BC teacher is a physics teacher. she tries hard, but sometimes we will ask a question and she’ll try to solve it, then get totally lost and stare at the board for like 10 minutes. that’s about the time i throw my friend’s binder across the room.</p>
<p>what is the major differance between IB and BC. I’m a senior in high school and I’m curently teaching myself Calculus BC to take test becouse my high school calc teacher dosn’t know ANYTHING about calculus BC.</p>
<p>IB, as I was recently educated, is another form of AP, and offers similar but slightly different curricula. In the math realm, they do a little more for sure, because they actually offer 3 levels. But instead of just doing an AB and a BC, which both have a ton of overlap in terms of AP exam content, the IB-ers do: precalculus, something like AB, and then a third level which includes BC topics like infinite series and then a peek into vector calculus type stuff I think. </p>
<p>And no, I know at least a few who had this AP Comp Sci teacher who taught nothing, ended up with 2’s and UC Berkeley didn’t care…just wouldn’t give 'em credit for it. Plus, if you don’t think you understand the material, you obviously shouldn’t try and skip it in Berkeley anyway (sort of the bread and butter of anything in science or engineering).</p>
<p>I got a 1 in the AP Physics exam because he spent about a semester and some more on material that was suppose to be on the test, however the parts that he speed right through ended up being on the test. We were horribly unprepared. I also got a 2 in Econ and I still got into Cal.</p>
<p>Although the AP score will not hurt you, I advise you, if you are seriously considering going to Cal (and think you will take math in college), to put a lot of effort into your current math class. Math at Cal is quite challenging. I got a 5 on BC and barely, BARELY managed to get an A in Math 1A, after an insane amount of studying. You need good high school preparation if you want to survive Cal math.</p>
<p>Edit: Oh… nevermind. This thread is from forever ago. xP</p>