<p>Your school is doing it properly. Calculus BC approximates a one year freshman calculus course in college. Students who are advanced in math should be able to handle that. The other schools are doing a disservice to advanced students (especially the top students who are two years advanced) by forcing them to take calculus at half speed.</p>
<p>When I was in high school decades ago, the only math course available for those who completed precalculus in 11th grade or earlier was calculus BC (in one year).</p>
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<p>The high school may be double-dipping by having you take the AB test one year and the BC test the next year, counting it as “two AP tests taken”. However, colleges will not give you any credit or placement for AB if you get credit or placement for BC, assuming you get high enough scores (according to the college’s standards) on both.</p>
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<p>Calculus at community college would be like BC in pace and difficulty, unless it is “calculus for business majors” or something like that.</p>
<p>It’s not calculus at a community college, it’s a program that our school has that allows us to get credit at our local community college for a few classes. The community college calculus class we have is much easier than Calc AB.</p>
<p>We have 3 classes, 30 kids each. If you get an A in pre-calc you probably take BC - precalc honors is a filter because they only let like 5-7 out of each class of 30 to get As. </p>
<p>Our teacher finishes the normal calc textbook (Kennedy) by December. Then we go onto Stuart (he says it’s the college textbook). He does a lot of Physics C stuff because it relates and because most of the kids in the class are juniors so it’ll help them in Physics as seniors. It works out, we had 100% passing last year and only 2 kids got a 4 out of the 90 kids taking it, so it was good. </p>
<p>After calc, you can take multivariable calc and then if you’re still not out of high school, you can take Stanford EPGY math. </p>
<p>The calc class itself is difficult in terms of work-load (2-3 hours a night) and questions but has a generous curve - the average score in the class is the cut-off for an A. For example, second semester last year, the average score in the class was a 65%, so 65% and above was an A, 40% and above was a B, and 20% and above was a C. This might seem crazy to many people, but the questions on his tests get really tough. </p>
<p>But the teacher’s policy is also that if you get a 5 on the AP, you get automatic A’s both semesters, so 88 kids got automatic A’s and 2 kids didn’t… basically, he makes you suffer, but it is fine in the end.</p>
<p>@debate95 That description sounds so much like my calculus teacher last year. It almost makes me wonder if we’re talking about the same person. (Except AP grade changes aren’t allowed anymore for us, so he’s been trying to make the class easier apparently. )</p>
<p>Our school basically lets anybody take BC Calc after pre-calc if the student wants to do it. It works out in the end because we have a really good teacher with a 95% passing rate for BC last year and 100% the year before.</p>
<p>There are about sixty something juniors & seniors taking AB and forty taking BC. Sophomores or juniors who take precalculus/limits honors end up in BC. People who took precalculus honors take AB, but some of them who get A+ in precalc honors can appeal to the math department to enroll into BC class. </p>
<p>Our school (public) BC average has been 4.1 and class average has been B.</p>
<p>My hs taught ab and bc students in the separate classes starting at the same time. Both taught the same material at nearly the same rate (staring from pre calc review) and at the end ab class did very little but start reviewing the ap exam while bc class was still learning Taylor and mclauren and polar stuff.</p>
<p>Don’t let a guidance counselor cheat you out of bc coming from precalc, you can do it if your precalculus was solid. I think there’s very little in bc that is it already in ab.</p>
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