<p>I was just wondering about the differences between AP Calculus AB and BC.</p>
<p>I think I will take one or the other next year, but how challenging are they?<br>
Do people usually take AB before going into BC?</p>
<p>Go straight to BC.</p>
<p>Yeah go straight to BC. I’m in AB only because my school doesn’t have BC (which doesn’t make any sense, but i digress). BC is everything you learn in AB plus some extra information, like parametrics and polar coordinates.</p>
<p>What should you know going into AP Calc? (Either AB or BC)</p>
<p>Make sure you’ve covered an ample amount of trig. Calculus involves a lot of relationships between the six trig functions you have probably been exposed to so far. </p>
<p>Also, many Pre-Calc classes do limits. I suggest knowing limits pretty well, before entering either class, as teachers tend to zoom right through them, which can bite you in the butt when they come up again later in applying differentiation and integration.</p>
<p>At my school, if you get an A in honors Algebra II/Trig, you can skip pre-calc and take Calc AB. That’s what I did and I’ve thought it’s been very easy. Limits, which I was first exposed to in this class, are really simple. They just have a lot of rules to remember. </p>
<p>I have an A in the class without any background in pre-calc so you should be fine.</p>
<p>I went from Geometry into Precalculus and got 100% on both semester finals. You should be fine. The U.S. math system is pretty much memorization of methods and regurgitation on test day.</p>
<p>^ Very true.</p>