<p>I am a junior in precalc and teacher just explained difference between AB and BC. I know BC is hard but the teacher made it sound impossible. He said the students have to come in early before school to take the tests then have normal lessons, and even the smartest students barely pass. Also alot of homework is assigned every night and it takes hours. I consider myself a pretty strong math student and have had mid-high 90's in math all throughout high school. Is BC really that difficult? Or was the teacher exaggerating?</p>
<p>BC Calc is a hard work but if you feel confident, then you should not have problems. In addition, you can ask the teacher or fellow students for additional help. Math is fun if your heart is in it otherwise if you are scared it will overwhelm you. Go for it.</p>
<p>One more thing try BC first, if you find it overwhelming you may go back to AB. BUt I am sure if anyone put their mind in any subject, they can overcome the difficulties. Good Luck</p>
<p>Bloody challenging...for a non-math-oriented individual such as myself. My school has it so that you take Calc-Review and Calc (that is, I take Review on one day and Calc on the other); ironically, I'm doing worse in Review. For the first quarter I made B's in both, but I'm not sure about the second.</p>
<p>I really never had a problem with BC Calc and I took it as a junior. I enjoyed the class and our teacher was great. I truly believe that all AP classes depend upon the teacher. My AP Physics C class is almost impossible, but I believe that the material is also that difficult.</p>
<p>BC isn't difficult if you just work for it. Best of luck.</p>
<p>Its easy. I'm stupid at math. Take it. AB is not even a real college class because you're taking calculus I in two semesters in effect. You think you'll be doing that in college? No you won't. It goes too slow.</p>
<p>i just started BC today...not gonna be fun since I finished AP Calc AB last January. I don't remember ****. And my teacher guarantees his class is harder than Calc 2 at CAL.</p>
<p>I agree that a lot of it does come down to the teacher. Neither of my Calc teachers are particularly good...they act as though the subject ought to come so naturally to us.</p>
<p>BC is only hard if either 1) you are bad at math to begin with, or 2) you have a terrible teacher. I'm guessing the second one is the case at your school, because nobody has gotten below a 3 on the BC exam here in years - and this is a thoroughly average public school (average SAT of 1010, of course its probably higher among the calc class).</p>
<p>If you're good at math...it's not that hard.</p>
<p>My teacher last year told us the same thing about how there were 15 students initially in the class and 6 students dropped out.</p>
<p>But this year...there are 20 kids in the class with one drop out.</p>
<p>Mathmatically, the concepts in BC Calc are not that hard. It's BASIC calculus. I always compare calc to linear algebra and topology and chaos theory in the hierarchy of mathematics and suddenly, calc seems so weak.</p>