<p>I'm a soph in pre-calc honors right now (have A's). I'm not a math person, though, and I would probably consider math to be my weak point.</p>
<p>Just wondering how hard calc BC is compared to calc AB and whether I should take it as a junior. Thanks for any replies =]</p>
<p>I’m in the exact same position and everyone has advised me to take BC calculus. So I guess that’s what you should do too</p>
<p>Hmm I see…</p>
<p>I wonder how conceptual BC is?</p>
<p>I think it’s a tough course, but colleges love it.
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Reply to mine too please!</p>
<p>Don’t take BC first.
Since you are only a junior you can take BC as a senior. I think that taking AB really lets you get a firm grasp of the basics of calc.
I am taking AB as a senior. At my school the make u take AB first.</p>
<p>I took AB soph year and BC junior year and there are a LOT of kids in my class this year who skipped AB and did BC. I would advise against it, pretty strongly considering a lot of them dropped out and/or are failing.
Heres the deal: BC is pretty much AB on high speed crack for the first half of the year, then you get into totally new stuff (partial fractions, integration by parts, series, polar, etc). It sucks to learn AB so fast (in a few months over what you would normally learn in a year).
Again it depends on who your teachers are, how good you are at math, etc. But I wouldn’t do it…you have plenty of time to take BC as a senior and you’re already accelerated in math anyways…GL!</p>
<p>That’s a good point. At my school you can only take one or the other, but if you are given the opportunity to take AB first then it will probably benefit you in the long run</p>
<p>that’s kind of weird.
at my school, I haven’t heard of anyone taking Calc AB one year and then BC the next. Usually, juniors in BC (like me) complete the class and then move on into either AP Statistics or Advanced Topics, both of which are the highest math courses offered at my school.</p>
<p>If you sign up for BC, you won’t regret it.</p>
<p>yeah, really dont worry about the difference, since its pretty insignificant.</p>
<p>i took ab last year (and am taking the bc test on wednesday) since bc isnt offered here, and i felt that the ab class went severely slow. so you might wanna just think about it on a personal level, that if you cant handle the faster pace of bc, then just go for ab</p>
<p>Wow, alot of differing opinions. For the ones who are taking BC as juniors, would you guys consider yourself math types?</p>
<p>And, is the second part of BC (the stuff that’s not part of AB) alot harder?</p>
<p>At my school, the strongest math students generally take AB as juniors and BC as seniors. I took AB as a sophomore and BC as a junior. No one, to my knowledge, has taken BC without taking AB.</p>
<p>Taking BC right away is certainly possible, but it will probably require a lot of motivation and interest on your part. BC covers AB material but at a very quick pace. I wouldn’t worry so much about the second-half of BC; it follows naturally from the first half. Your main concern would be making sure you don’t get lost during the first half, which would hurt you later on.</p>
<p>In short, it is entirely possible but I would predict that it would be very challenging.</p>
<p>I am by no means a math type. My real passion is in all of the social sciences (Psych, Sociology, Philosophy, etc.). Still, I feel confident in my abilities in math and I want to show colleges that I am willing to challenge myself, so that’s the reason I took BC. BC is tough, but it’s worth it. I know a lot of students who decided to take BC and then dropped it because it was too hard. </p>
<p>I would sign up for BC and get a feel for whether you’re up to it. Remember that you can always drop down into AB if you feel stressed, but it is MUCH harder to move up from AB to BC.</p>