<p>The AP Cal teacher at my school yold me that he can help me study BC while taking AB in his class. My school only offers AB, but he said that I could take the BC test.</p>
<p>How hard is BC, if you haven't taken AB?</p>
<p>I did ok in Trig(no honors offered). I got As both terms.</p>
<p>i got fives on both exams. It is just more material about series, sequences, differentials, and some random polar and parametric stuff.</p>
<p>I'd say go for it.
I was without a Calc BC teacher for the 2nd semester (changed school), without any help, and still managed to do quite well on it (5s).</p>
<p>I am sure you can do it.</p>
<p>calc bc is really easy if you study enough for it.</p>
<p>i took ap ab last year, but i didn't take the exam. next year i'm taking ap bc, and will take the bc exam.</p>
<p>you learn this:</p>
<p>AB: limits, derivatives, applications of derivatives, integrals / anti differentiation, logarithmic functions</p>
<p>BC: applications of integrals, more anti differentiation, and blah idk what else since I haven't started to take the class. 2d stuff i am guessing, since its calc II.</p>
<p>Series and Sequences and Covergence/Divergence are a majority of it. Taylor series...all that stuff. It's just a lot of abstract stuff. </p>
<p>You probably did parametric/polar stuff in pre-calc, you just go a bit further. You also do some stuff with vectors...the easy part. </p>
<p>It's kind of difficult for me to wrap my mind around this type of stuff, so self-studying would not have been an option. However, some people are just naturally good at it, and can definitely pull it off.</p>
<p>super easty</p>
<p>I was in similar situation. I enrolled in AP Calculus AB class for two years (my school's in rural area so everything's really slow.. >_<) but I decided to take BC instead of AB. My teacher did cover some BC topics like polar, partial fraction, and some others but I had to learn series and rest of topics on my own.</p>
<p>In the end, I got 5/5. I think it was a smart move but not necessarily easy. Calculus BC is not very difficult exam but especially for FRQ, if you don't know what kind of questions they ask you and how to get the credits, it's pretty tough.</p>
<p>Just practice... and you'll be fine.</p>