which is harder?
(usually)
for eg. Calc BC in AP and Calc 2 In community college
which is more accelerated/EASIER TO GET an “A” in .
(i know it varies from school to school)
<p>in my own experience calculus classes at community colleges are a LOT easier. It also depends on your math teacher for calculus, my school's math teacher is extremely difficult to work with.</p>
<p>the real question is, which looks better on a college app?</p>
<p>I took community college courses because I couldn't take AP's. My calc classes were extremely challenging, but they were also meant for students enrolled in 5 year engineering programs - not typical comm college classes. </p>
<p>I would have rather been able to stay at a high school and take the AP course because it would have been less lonely. But you'll have that.</p>
<p>community college courses are MUCH easier in my opinion</p>
<p>Again, that depends on the community college. My courses were mainly taken by 5-6 year course engineering students enrolled in partnerships with bigger universities. The learning environment can be much more difficult, also.</p>
<p>I dont know exactly what you're going into or what level of math is required in that field. But look at it this way, in the end you are going to have to take Calculus at high school, a community college, or whichever college u plan on going to after graduation. Take it at the community college if you think it might be harder. If you don't do as well as you expect to at a community college, what makes u think u would've done any better at an expensive university? The way I look at it is: if I'm worried about keeping my GPA up when I'm taking calc-based physics at a community college, then I shouldnt be going into the best engineering school in the nation. i'm going to end up taking this class somewhere and I'd rather do it before i make a full commitment into a career field. If you can, talk to some people who took Calc at the community college and transferred elsewhere and see how well it prepared them for the next level.</p>
<p>i take online community college courses in replacement of the APs that aren<code>t offered at my high school. it might work for those who don</code>t have flexible schedules.</p>
<p>I took Calc. at a junior college and found it covered the same, if not more than what is on the AP curriculum (for example calc. 2 started with series, ended with vector calculus -- gradient, tangent planes, etc.). Since you can take AP Calc. in one year at my HS or Calc. I & II in one year at the JC, I went with the JC classes. It all depends though. In general, I have found that the JC classes require more independent work whereas HS classes have a lot of review and homework. If you are good figuring things out on your own and don't procrastinate, I'd say the JC class is better.</p>
<p>Jc's are so much lieneant. They dont really care. If your trying to make yourself look good, take the AP course only becasue there is the test to prove it... But if you dont have that option go the the Comunity college class. It wont look bad because it is still a "COLLEGE LEVED" class!</p>
<p>Like most others are saying, at my community college the classes are much easier than AP!</p>
<p>JC's are more leniant when it comes to harping on students to do their work -- you have to be very self-motivated.</p>
<p>Those that take the CC classes - do you then sit for the AP exam and do well? If so, you should be covered for any lack of rigor in the CC.</p>
<p>I've only taken one community college course - Introductory Psychology. It was by correspondence and was much easier than any AP I've taken. It was even easier than most honors classes. All I had to do was read the chapters assigned for each test, make an outline of the key terms, go to the school on a Saturday of my choice to take each of four multiple choice tests and ... voila ... easy A. I never even watched the online lectures and finished the course last fall before November. The only downer is that some colleges may not accept the credit.</p>
<p>I didn't sit for the AP exam. I didn't see the point in paying the money.</p>
<p>I think the vast majority of CC classes do not prepare you to take the AP exam. You would definitely have to do a lot of self studying.</p>
<p>I don't know about math, but I took AP Bio in HS. I didn't take the AP exam, because let's face it--when you do not feel prepared and your final exam in a class (for the actual course, not the ETS AP exam) is a crossword puzzle, it's a waste of money to take the AP exam. I took Bio. again in college, and it was wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy easier.</p>
<p>Community college courses that I took were much easier than the AP versions at my high school, particularly ones in the humanities/social sciences. The hard sciences tended to be similar in difficulty, though still easier.</p>
<p>lol, a crossword as your AP Bio final, that is too funny...</p>
<p>A CROSSWORD PUZZLE?! HAHAHAHAHAHA CC ppl have good metaphors</p>
<p>For science and math courses my CC was much harder than the AP classes. Outside of science and math they are easier because there is less of a focus on projects and homework compared to High School.</p>