<p>Some schools offer AB and BC as a 2-year sequence. You take AB, and you cannot take BC until you have taken AB.</p>
<p>Others offer them as alternatives. You either take one year of AB, or you take one year of BC. You cannot take both, any more than you can take Honors Algebra II and college prep Algebra II.</p>
<p>It’s not clear which kind of school the OP goes to.</p>
<p>Congrats on doing well in calc AB, loltired. A standalone BC class is a very different beast, however. (Moreover, it worries me that you’re offering yourself as an example of how sophomore year calc is totally fine, yet you’re spending three hours a night on homework. That’s just wrong.)</p>
<p>Sorry, that post probably sounded a bit pretentious.
Well, the amount of time spent on homework is totally up to each student in my class, but my teacher always says, “You get out of this class what you put into it.” The other juniors and seniors are balancing harder AP classes and other classes than I am, so I probably have at least an hour of extra time to do calculus homework.</p>
<p>But you’re definitely right. My sister took BC Calc her sophomore year and ended up passing the class with an A+ and getting a 4 on the BC exam, but she never understood the material. She went on to MVC her junior year at a different school, got a C, and had to retake AB/BC Calc her senior year. She took Calc I and II again in college, so she basically spent 3 years learning the same material, more or less.</p>
<p>No worries. I was being a bit of a d*** with the “that’s just wrong” comment too. Putting in consistent extra time is the exact right thing to do with material that’s pushing your limits.</p>
<p>Ok, so I talked to my math teacher and he said that it would be OK if I took pre-calc over the summer because then i would remember a lot of the stuff once i jump into Calc BC the next (he teaches pre calc). Though he said this, I have been advised by multiple students at my school that pre-calc is very rigorous and i might do badly. I don’t know what to think at this point because the advantages of taking pre-calc in the summer is that i will have a lot more time to do the work and study and i will go straight into calculus. The disadvantages are that it may be too rushed and my grades may suffer. Anyway, Calc BC is like the most accepted level of math that most people in my track go into, they skip Calc AB.</p>
<p>AP Stats is going to be a cakewalk for you. Worth taking, but it won’t satisfy you. </p>
<p>That means if you knock out calc next year you only have one year of worthwhile math left. Then it’s either spin your wheels for a year or do DE, if that’s possible.</p>
<p>Really not adding up. Do you have a specific reason you have to finish calc by end of next year?</p>
<p>I said this a while ago, but if you think you’re good at math, take it! I took Pre-Calc the summer before freshman year and then took BC. Both were a cakewalk for me because math easily clicks for me.</p>
<p>I guess that taking pre calc in the summer doesn’t really do much for me because it would just open up a period senior year for AP ENVIORNMENTAL. But since I want to go into medicine, I don’t think that environmental is that important.</p>