<p>From what our teacher has told us from the teacher conventions she goes to, apparently our school teaches BC calculus unlike most other schools. So I want to ask here how other people's schools teach BC calculus.</p>
<p>Our school teaches it in one year by itself. Our teacher tells us most schools out there usually have it as a two year course, or that that they have one year of AB, and one year of BC. How does your school do it?</p>
<p>my school doesn't have BC as a course. There is AB and then in the Spring you can come after school and learn BC if you want.</p>
<p>my school its AB first semester, BC the second
she has like a 95% pass rate</p>
<p>It was one year by itself for my son at his public HS and for my daughter at her private HS. At her school, the top students took it in the 11th grade; 12th at his.</p>
<p>My school has BC and AB calc for one year each. Some people take AB for one year then BC, some people just go from pre-calc to BC, and others go to AB and just don't take BC</p>
<p>Most people at my school take Pre-Calculus Junior year and then takes AB or BC senior year.</p>
<p>Nobody at my school takes AB AND BC Calc. Both are 2 semester courses and everyone just takes one or the other. Basically, AB is just BC but at a slower pace (and therefore some topics omitted). If you took AB then BC, the first half or so of the year in BC would all be a repeat of AB...</p>
<p>my school doesn't have BC, just AB as a 1 year course.</p>
<p>Some high schools offer only AB taught over a full year, some offer only BC taught over a full year (the first half covers ~AB), and some offer both AB & BC. Another way to look at it is to examine a standard Calc textbook with 16 chapters. The first ~7 chapters cover AB material and chapters 1-15 cover BC (and, of course, AB).</p>
<p>Note, that colleges typically teach BC over two quarters or two semesters, so AB over one year is definitely an AP Lite.</p>
<p>Our HS offers AB and BC. The stronger students (around 10-15 a year) take BC. Both are taught over the period of a year and start at the same place but BC is faster paced, to get in the extra chapters. There's a good record of the BC students scoring 5 on the AP exam, perhaps since it's a self-selected population ...</p>
<p>Jump from pre-calc to BC. Most people never take AB.</p>
<p>yup..our school does it like whitesox's school..whitesox, u got to gbn by any chance</p>
<p>Normally my school will do BC as a 1 year Course, but not many people are that strong in math so BC is a supplement to AB and would normally only be a 5 student class at best. But 100% get 5s. in BC.
For students in AB, it would probably be mostly 3s and a few 4s</p>
<p>My school has two general math tracks. Those who pass a test and start in 7th grade with Algebra I, can either take AB in junior year and then BC in senior year or just do one of the two classes. There also is just plain old advanced Calculus, but that's not a very popular class. There are maybe 15 juniors who, like me, are taking BC. There aren't that many juniors in AB either, since the vast majority of students are on the main math track where you take Pre-Algebra in 7th grade. They finish up with Pre-Calc in 11th grade and can either take AB or BC.
Overall, the majority of BC kids skip from Pre-Calc straight to BC. Very few do Pre-Calc, then AB, then BC.</p>
<p>Straight up. AB then BC. or PreCalc Honors then BC.</p>
<p>we don't :/</p>
<p>At my school people can take either AB or BC after pre-calc, but I don't know of anyone who has done both. There are usually two sections of BC.</p>
<p>Smarty99, no I don't go to GBN (Glenbrook North?), although I've gone to basketball games there.</p>
<p>At my school the entire honors math program is run by one teacher and he formulates his classes (other than honors geometry) to culminate in all the knowledge for BC Calc. Basically, though, the last quarter of pre-calc for us is derivatives (A topic) and we complete that by the end of pre-calc. We review that and than hustle through the rest during BC. For lke 3-4 weeks before the AP test we do a worksheet each day that is as long as a normal test we receive.</p>
<p>Breakdown of my school's scores over the past 12 years:
5's=66.6%
4'2=21%
3's=10.3%
2's=1.6%
1's=0.4%</p>
<p>So we don't do too bad.</p>
<p>EDIT: We average about 28 students in BC a year.</p>
<p>My School: "BC cal---whaaa?"</p>