<p>If I were an average student in Pre-Calculus and got a C and was recommended for AP Calculus AB, would it be to my best interest to just take AB online and take BC at school. Yes yes and again yes I know that only one of those AP tests would be necessary, but I am talking about the class, not any AP test. I am saying would me taking AB online supplement me with the BC material seeing that I can work ahead in the AB class online and already be prepared for the BC material?</p>
<p>I think that would be too much for one year. Only students who excel and love math should even think about that. No offense but a C isnt a great grade in precalc and Cal AB just gets harder. It would just bring both of your grades down.</p>
<p>Ya...it doesn't seem liek a good venue for you to take Calc BC. If anything, you need to be taking BC as the webcourse, not AB.</p>
<p>well I had 5 AP's this year and this was my firs year takign AP...I am normally a straight A or A/B student, but precalculus with 5 Ap's for the first time was kinda odd</p>
<p>You can't take both exams in the same year anymore. </p>
<p>Yes yes and again yes I know that only one of those AP tests would be necessary, but I am talking about the class, not any AP test.</p>
<p>I stated that...I am talking about the classes, NOT exams</p>
<p>Given your grade in pre-Calc, and given the department recommendation for your placement, why do you think that BC is appropriate for you for next year? </p>
<p>Maybe I don't understand your plan, but you can't work ahead in the AB material as a yearlong strategy because BC covers considerably more than AB. </p>
<p>If you were in BC and felt that you needed extra help, I think that a better plan would be to get that help personally from the teacher or from a tutor.</p>
<p>ADad, I think he means taking BC in school, but then going ahead of what BC is doing through an AB webcourse.</p>
<p>smrtguy- that won't work all year.
AB will end, and you'll be left hung out to dry for the rest of BC.</p>
<p>if you really feel you need to double review to understand something, stick w/ AB.</p>
<p>just my 2 cents.</p>
<p>P.S. - if you really wanna take BC, then take BC w/out having the AB webcourse to kind of let you take a sneak peek at the next section (not that I'm against advantages, it's just that late in the year that crutch will slip and fall away from you, and you in turn will fall flat on your face towards the end of the year)</p>
<p>well at my school if you want to take BC you must do AB and BC and then take the BC exam, since my school is block</p>
<p>the average grade for BC is a 5 at my school</p>
<p>i'm taking ab and bc all in two semesters and it's kicking my butt. i got A's in all my math courses, so i probably wouldn't advice you to do both. AB is probably enough.</p>
<p>I skipped AB all together. The BC course at my school has a 2-month review of AB (since it's normally taken by those that took AB the year before) and I learned the whole AB curriculum at that time. I got HOW to do all the math, that part was easy. But the cramming of it all in two months left me with giant holes as to WHY it worked. When we began BC it became significantly harder (I have nightmares about cross section revolutions hahah). I had to go back on my own and relearn a lot of stuff. However, with a C on pre-calc, I would assume your grasp on trig/pre-calc material is not PERFECT. A lot of calculus has trig/pre-calc concepts so it might be hard. What topic does your BC curriculum start with? Cause I'm not sure you could start it right away without knowing any calculus. For instance, you can't just start on Taylor series without knowing how to differentiate.</p>
<p>well im in a predicament
in my (regular) math analysis class, i have one of the highest A's in the class. thing is i sorta blew my grade last semester by going down about 6% to a middle B. will taking AP Calc next year be a bad decision? also will taking a non honors math hurt my chances for getting a good grade in an AP class?</p>
<p>Have you discussed these questions with a math teacher and/or department head, who, one hopes, know you well enough to guide you?</p>
<p>they have said that its my own decision and they recommend taking a math class whether it be calc or stats.... so that didnt really help me</p>
<p>Hey, I'm sorry I haven't actually read all the posts on this thread, but my initial reactions to the thread title are:</p>
<p>I. It's not possible to take both exams in the same year.
II. You can take Calc BC and get a subscore for Calc AB.
III. The latter (dependent on your scores) can count as if you had taken both simulataneously - as far as college credit & placement go (which is dependent on the colleges' policies).
IV. It's possible to be enrolled in an Calc AB class and independently study the BC curriculum.</p>
<p>Take that for all it's worth. Good luck to the OP and anyone else interested in AP Calc.</p>
<p>-Jon ;)</p>
<p>Take AB in school and then get yourself an actual text book and teach yourself the BC stuff. You dont need an online course. You can just search online for additional sources for stuff you dont know. Then take the BC test at the end of the year.</p>