HELP! Self-Teaching myself Calculus in one week!

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<p>Help!! Apparently I need to know all the material in Calculus A in one week! I wasn't aware of this fact, and now I'm obviously freaking out. I will be tested on this stuff. So any good book I could buy or online resources?? Any general advice? I'm a fairly good math student so this shouldn't be impossible. Topics include: limits, derivatives, applications of derivatives, integrals, and applications of integrals. Thanks for any help :)</p>

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<p>Why do you need to know A? Are you jumping from precalc to AP Calc BC? BC classes should still go over the A stuff, they just cover more than the AB classes.</p>

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<p>Apparently my Precalculs class is more advanced meaning they do 3 quarters of Precalculus and 1 quarter of calculus. Therefore, my class already knows that stuff, and yes i'm taking Calculus BC</p>

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<p>How far did you get up to, lol?</p>

<p>My precalc class taught me enough to 5 the AB test (happened to alot of people in the class, although we were a pretty self-selecting group). We were doing integrals of trigonometric functions or something similar near the end.</p>

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<p>yeah, so I took a online course to skip Precalculus (EPGY) and they only did the normal stuff, basically a rehash of Algebra 2 w/ trig. Now, next week I have to take a final so I can successfully have skipped the course. And for the program that I am in they are quite stringent on passing (above a 90)</p>

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<p>Anyone know how tough it'll be to transition from precalc (all the basic stuff, barely touched on derivatives and functions) to BC? My precalc teacher was pretty bad and we pretty much went slower than all the other classes which made my teacher really cram a lot of stuff into the last two months. Should I pick up a calculus book and start getting my feet wet or do you guys think I'll be fine?</p>

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I'm going from pre-cal to BC... because the BC teacher still has to go over the AB stuff.</p>

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<p>It depends on your ability to intuit the principles of calculus. If your teacher doesn't cover Calc AB, I would imagine it you would need above average intuition to understand Calc BC. By understand, I don't mean, necessarily, to do well or get an A in the course, I mean to really feel the mathematics and understand it in a practical way.</p>

<p>I think that it would be relatively easy to work the problems, but more difficult to develop a natural feeling for calculus.</p>

<p>Just my 2 cents.</p>

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<p>"Anyone know how tough it'll be to transition from precalc (all the basic stuff, barely touched on derivatives and functions) to BC?"</p>

<p>We literally didn't touch on derivatives and just did Calc AB+BC in one year (the class was called Calculus BC). So I don't know how to answer this question. Is it a class like mine, where the objective was to cover Calc AB + BC in one year, or is it just that you're literally skipping Calc AB and going right into integrals?</p>