<p>This is for ap awards. Do Calc BC and AB count as two different exams. I'm not talking about the subscore for AB. I took the AB exam one year and then BC the next.</p>
<p>Subscore does not count but if you took both tests over a period of two years then yes both count as two exams.</p>
<p>I’m not sure that’s correct…</p>
<p>If you took the AP Calculus AB exam and AP Calculus BC exams in different years, they count as 2 tests.</p>
<p>If you took only the AP Calculus BC exam, only the BC score is counted; the AB subscore is not counted as a test in determining AP Scholar awards.</p>
<p>I know the rule, but don’t you think its unfair? I mean at our school we have block scheduling, so I was able to take Calc AB first semester and BC the 2nd semester. I obviously took the BC exam, but I just as easily could have taken AB this year and waited until next year to take BC.</p>
<p>Unfair? For something as trivial as an AP award? Not at all.</p>
<p>^Yeah i guess you are right… and its not like colleges won’t give you credit for AB</p>
<p>Are you kidding? I think you’re lucky; I had to endure a whole year of AB and by second semester I would enter that class always with negative, sleepy thoughts. I would have self-studied BC and just taken it if my teacher wasn’t so excruciatingly strict (and punishing; near the beginning of the year, I went ahead to integrals (because we had been doing derivatives for who knows how long), learned the theory and how to evaluate basic integrals, and once my calc teacher found out he was furious and called me out in front of the whole class).</p>
<p>Alright man! I got it! And what teacher gets mad for learning something new? My original point here was that say you would only graduate with 7 AP exams (one away from national scholar), and you just instead decided to take AB one year and BC the next (allowing you to have 8). That would make you a national scholar (granted you do well on the exams). But obviously who would care for National AP scholar because, as cantconcentrate said, it is trivial. I guess as a soon-to-be sophomore i don’t know about what is trivial in college apps and what is substantial. #newbproblems :P</p>