<p>How hard would it be, in theory, to self study AP Calculus? The reason I ask is because my Calc teacher is a notoriously bad teacher, as I've already witnessed first hand. He talked about limits for three minutes before going on a winded tangent about how his three year old son learned how to ride a bike till the end of class. </p>
<p>I feel like I'm gonna have to do a lot of self studying on my part - and I was wondering how difficult that would be.</p>
<p>How strong is your math background? How were you at precalc?</p>
<p>I am not a math person. And unlike those on CC who claim they aren’t “math people” despite the fact that they are in Calculus III as Sophomores, I am actually not a math person. I averaged an 85 by the end of the year in Precal, and that was with pretty consistent studying and note taking.</p>
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<p>If you think you’re capable of self-studying, you should be able to deal with this.
It would look better to colleges if you stayed in the class. (Speaking of which…your college professors will have been trained as researchers, not as teachers, and some of them won’t be good at it. And they won’t even make an attempt to lecture on everything they want you to know…they just assign homework on it, and then they give you a test.)</p>
<p>There is plenty of online help. One of my personal favorites is khanacademy</p>
<p>AP Calculus AB is actually super easy. I self-studied it in about a week. Now AP Calculus BC is a different story…</p>