<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I took AP Calculus AB in 10th grade and got a 3 on the AB Test. I have since taken Calculus I and II FOR LIFE SCIENCES at a community college. This is a different approach to Calculus, similar to the Engineering/AP calculus, but you just assume a lot more. I am planning on taking the AP CALCULUS BC exam this year. Am I prepared to take it?</p>
<p>BC was a joke. I left the book at school all year long, last year. My BC teacher was masterful at teaching BC Calc and AP Stats.</p>
<p>BC really is a joke. It's like 3 more chapters than AB, and the material isn't complex. Once you get series and sequences, you're good to go.</p>
<p>I wouldn't exactly call it a joke... I found it easy, but not everyone did.</p>
<p>I didn't take BC in high school, but I took the B and C equivalents at my university. B is all integration, and C brings in some 3D graphing, partial derivatives, and taylor series, infinite series, etc... so If you know that material, I think you'll do fine.</p>
<p>not bad...do those 3 chapters in like a month and you are fine.</p>
<p>On the AP Calc BC test, on average, about what % of the questions do you have to answer correctly to score a 5?</p>
<p>just curious, thanks.</p>
<p>something like 70-75%? i cant remember exactly but its around there.</p>
<p>Calc BC is not easy. I've always thought math was easy, including missing only 1 question on the math SAT, but BC calc is not easy. . . I'm not saying it's that hard, but it's not a joke as previously suggested, unless you are a genius (which many people on this forum may be) or maybe if you have a really easy teacher (in which case you're probably not being prepared very well for the exam).</p>
<p>Just my $0.02</p>
<p>I think it's significantly faster than AB, although I personally never took AB.</p>
<p>Nah, its higher, around 85%+.</p>
<p>And for those who think BC is hard...good luck w/ multivariate calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra. I thought BC was a joke and expected multivariate calc and beyond would be about the same...WRONG!!!</p>
<p>It gets WAY more abstract after BC. To me, the jump from BC to beyond was harsher than if you jumped from Algebra I to Calculus.</p>
<p>I thought 65%+ was a 5 on the BC. I thought I had read that quite a few times on this board.</p>
<p>Wanna know what's a joke? AP Stats.
I've heard that if you've taken Calc AB you've covered 75% of what's on the BC test (actually, they use a lot of the same questions on each test, which is why you're not allowed to take both the same year)</p>
<p>Maybe it was just my Calc teacher being hard on us, because his curve worked against us when we did take AP practice tests in April...</p>
<p>Pearlinthemidst: I am pretty sure AB and BC are just arbitrary names made by the College Board and have no relevance to content... aren't they?</p>
<p>A = Derivatives
B = Integrals
C = Advanced stuff, like Taylor series and arc lengths</p>
<p>So AB has the basic derivatives and integrals, while BC takes that and adds the "C" equiv.</p>
<p>But then BC people don't learn derivatives?</p>
<p>Just blame the Collegeboard for not adding the A. Probably because they wanted to save $$$ on not having to print out an extra "A" on all those AP exams.</p>
<p>You're supposed to have learned them from AB already. It's like 3 college classes/semesters. You can't take B and C unless you took A.</p>
<p>Actually, the "AB" and "BC" indicates what one concentrates more on. I remember derivs were covered really quickly, while our class did integrals and series, arclengths, etc. much more. That's my hypothesis, I guess it makes some sense</p>
<p>BC covers all of AB.</p>