Help... Forced to Take Calc AB!

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Hi, I’m a rising sophomore and was just told my precalc class online is not ‘rigorous’ enough to let me into Calc BC, which is just ridiculous because the honors class here only covers one derivatives chapter at the end of the year that I could easily make up.

Anyhow, I have to take Calc AB next year, while many of my peers will be in BC. Should I plan to self-study BC if I do well in AB in the beginning of the year to keep up with my classmates’ rigor and such? How would I go about this, and is it hard/heard of? I’m afraid of doing the BC test, since if I do bad, then my target school (U of M) would not accept any AB subscore, but I want to do it. I would dual enroll after.

Also, I was planning to do AP Physics C, but now can’t because you have to be in BC. I could, however, try to study it on my own if I wanted to. My question is whether AB teaches the calc needed for AP Physics C or if it is self-teachable calc, and how far into the course I’d know enough calc to start studying.

Thanks all

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You’re a sophomore in Pre-Calc Honors AND AP Physics II, if I am correct. That is AMAZING! You can do AP Calc AB junior year and then AP Calc BC senior year. That seems simple.

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Closing thread. Just a variation of a theme. Update one of your older threads, but no need to start a thread with the same basic question. Asking how to accelerate your math sequence for the third time will not elicit different responses.