<p>The thing is that I had Calc AB in HS and did pretty well in the class but ended up getting a 2 on the exam. I have sent the scores for a regrade but don't know if they'll change tho I'm pretty sure I did well on it. My adviser for college assigned me to Calc I saying that if I get a 4 or higher I could move to Calc II since I got a 100% on the placement test. My question to you guys is whether I should stick to Calc I, which I know quite well or change my class to Calc II since I can? I'm decently good at grasping math, what's your advice?</p>
<p>I’d say take Calc 1. Although you may no Calc., you may not know it as well as an one would going through an entire college course. You don’t have much to lose, and you have an A and a mastery of Calc. to gain.</p>
<p>What was your grade in the class? I’d say take Calc 2 if you had at least a B.</p>
<p>I had an A+ lol</p>
<p>Its very possible that your grade was inflated. Generally an A would be more than enough to translate to a 5. Maybe you just had a bad day. Anyways, Calc2 doesn’t rely too much on Calc one. You just have to know what a limit and derivative is and the most basic differentiation rules of course.</p>
<p>No, I worked hard for that A. Mostly everyone had low B’s and high C’s. Only 3 people had an A. Do I only need to know limits, derivation and rules of differentiation rules for calc 2? What about Taylor series and L’Hospital’s rules etc. Also I do know that I didn’t bomb the exam.</p>
<p>You need to know a thing or two on polar coordinates also. Taylor’s are a good chunk of calc 2.</p>
<p>No taylor series are taught in Calc2 or 3 depending on your school. L hopital’s rule are used sometimes, if at all. For me, Calc 2 was mostly about integrals. ie integration by parts, u substitution, trig substitution, basic diff eq, area under a curve, volume of rotation; look familiar? But then again, you may have one of those A hole professors that give you some random problem involving finding the area under a trig curve only given the curve’s inflection pts and some other vague stuff. But that is rare. I’ll say this, if the calc2 professor at your school is one of those people that demands that you know everything from previous courses, make sure that you are good enough to pick up on calc 1 stuff like snap.</p>
<p>You need to know how to take integrals to do calc 2. So if you choose to take it review integrals.</p>
<p>haha integrals are easier than differentiation and it seems I had a good calc teacher in HS because I know almost all the stuff CoffeeBreak is talking about. Btw is buying the books recommended or should I just download it.</p>
<p>I like textbooks. Staring at the computer for a long time strains my eye.</p>
<p>So should I stick to Calc II?</p>
<p>whats the difference between Calc 1 & 2 vs. Calc AB/BC</p>
<p>I always thought AB = 1 and BC = 2 + 1.</p>
<p>idk, I hope Zairair is right.</p>
<p>Stick to Calc II.</p>