<p>@Da- only because of the power reducing you have to do…takes forever lol</p>
<p>I took the AB exam this year, and next year I plan on self studying B/C while taking AP Stats 
Sound like it could work?</p>
<p>Definitely. (well, assuming you’re decent at math, of course)</p>
<p>You should be able to cover all of BC except polar calculus / sequences and series in 2-3 weeks. Polar Calc / Seq and Series should take another 2 weeks. </p>
<p>Overall, Calc BC takes approximately 25-35 hours TOTAL (including practice problems / learning material) to finish learning. </p>
<p>If you find yourself bored in the next few days / during summer, I encourage you to pull out a calc bc review book and start learning BC while calculus is fresh in your head.</p>
<p>more sites:</p>
<p>ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE SITE:
[Khan</a> Academy](<a href=“http://www.khanacademy.org/]Khan”>http://www.khanacademy.org/)</p>
<p>[AP</a> Central - AP Calculus BC Course Home Page](<a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>AP Calculus BC Course – AP Central | College Board)</p>
<p>[AP</a> Calculus Other Stuff](<a href=“http://homework.zendog.org/calcotherstuff.html]AP”>http://homework.zendog.org/calcotherstuff.html)</p>
<p>[Calculus-Help.com:</a> Survive calculus class! - Calculus-Help.com](<a href=“http://www.calculus-help.com/]Calculus-Help.com:”>http://www.calculus-help.com/)</p>
<p>MIT Open Course Ware - Calculus</p>
<p>Kentridge High School: [Kentridge</a> High School AP Calculus Homepage](<a href=“http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/DavidWright/calculus/index.html]Kentridge”>http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/DavidWright/calculus/index.html)</p>
<p>Alvirne High School : <a href=“http://homepages.seresc.net/~sray/alvirne.html[/url]”>http://homepages.seresc.net/~sray/alvirne.html</a></p>
<p>AP Central: [Page</a> Not Found](<a href=“Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board”>Supporting Students from Day One to Exam Day – AP Central | College Board)</p>
<p>AP Calculus at BHS: [AP</a> Calculus at BHS](<a href=“http://www.batesville.k12.in.us/physics/calcnet/]AP”>AP Calculus at BHS)</p>
<p>Mr. Calculus: <a href=“Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos”>Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos;
<p>Calculus-Help.com: [Calculus-Help.com:</a> Survive calculus class! - Calculus-Help.com](<a href=“http://www.calculus-help.com/]Calculus-Help.com:”>http://www.calculus-help.com/)</p>
<p>White Station High School: <a href=“http://www.mecca.org/~halfacre/MATH/calc.htm[/url]”>http://www.mecca.org/~halfacre/MATH/calc.htm</a></p>
<p>Mr. Robert’s: [Mrs</a>. Roberts’ Calculus Page](<a href=“http://mrsroberts.com/MrsRoberts/Calculus/calculus.htm]Mrs”>Mrs. Roberts' Calculus Page)</p>
<p>Doug’s resources for AP Calculus teachers: [AP</a> Calculus Stuff](<a href=“http://www.dougshaw.com/ap/]AP”>http://www.dougshaw.com/ap/)</p>
<p>Wow, this looks really helpful. I wish I would have had this thread for guidance a year ago.</p>
<p>Here’s something that’s worth pointing out for self-studiers. The AP exam doesn’t test hard examples of integration techniques. Instead, they combine easy examples with challenging applications. Even for an “easy” textbook like Larson/Edwards, the problem sets generally are beyond the scope of what’s on the AP exam. Instead, expect to see lots of problems that require little calculus and lots of understanding.</p>
<p>Of course, even the hard AP problems become easy after you’ve done a few practice tests.</p>
<p>^Very true. I took the AB exam and I found that I had to do very little as far as rigorous calculations, but I had to understand the concepts. The FRQs are what really test the application of the material, but the computations are not challenging at all.</p>
<p>^ agreed 100%</p>
<p>understand / apply >>> computation / calculation</p>
<p>i’ll try to bump this every 1-2 months, so it remains accessible to people who haven’t seen it</p>
<p>Hi, I’m taking calc AB, but i was just wondering when i should start learning BC topics?</p>
<p>I think I’m just going to take the AB test. (I have AB as a class btw.) Self-studying BC sounds too dangerous to me. I could just see myself getting a 3 thus receiving no college credit.</p>
<p>^The AB subscore is commonly accepted as an equivalent of the AB test. The BC topics aren’t difficult either; they’re just more scattered.</p>
<p>you should definitely try to learn them as soon as you can possibly learn them. Right now, you should learn / review the precalc topics that i mentioned. do this ASAP. </p>
<p>after you finish learning derivatives in calc ab, start learning how to differentiate polar / parametrric functions as well as l^hopital’s rule. after you do these things, start learning series ASAP. </p>
<p>after you finish learning integrals, start learning all the integral stuff i mentioned. </p>
<p>so, basically, definitely definitely start early. for now, the only thing you can do is to learn precalc / series. as you learn more calc ab. start learning the calc bc topics ASAP. Use either your review book or textbook. If you’re confused, seek help and don’t forget the importance of doing / practicing problems!</p>
<p>Okay. Thanks a bunch! :)</p>
<p>bump. …</p>
<p>hi again! 
I just started school 2 days ago, and it looks like the BC classes are almost done with the first chapter (Limits), while AB has barely even started…You said to start BC topics right after integrals, so around when will we learn it? December? etc?</p>
<p>it highly depends on the pace of your school.
the BC topics that are NOT in the AB curriculum are parametric/polar functions, l^hopital’s rule, differentiating parametric / polar functions, and a lot of integrals stuff. </p>
<p>For now, you definitely could start learning BC material. Get a review book or go on one of the websites I posted and start learning parametric / polar and series for now. After you learn the “derivative” in Calc AB, start working on l^hopital’s rule and differentiating parametric / polar functions. Pace yourself, and starting early DEFINITELY helps since you’re not too busy right now. Oh, and don’t forget practice problems. Good luck :)</p>
<p>out of curiosity, when did YOU start learning the BC topics?</p>
<p>I started in September (with the basics). However, because I wasn’t good at planning, I had to cram all the difficult topics (Series and Advanced Integrals) at the end, right before the exam. SO start early, with the topics you can do by yourself right now, such as series and polar/parametric functions (you may know these already from precalc). You can cram it all at the end but that’s not as fun.</p>
<p>K thanks! I hope i can keep up with my AB class while doing this.</p>