<p>@ucbalumnus: I am not sure when you were in high school, but our high school is in Silicon Valley, full of CS/Engineering offspring, and BC lane here is intense - usually the parents have a career related to extreme math. We have 5 lanes of math, and for the AB&BC lanes, have a couple of created classes that aren’t even offered at other schools. My son was in the AB lane, which ended with AP Calc AB and he got a “C” in the class but a 5 on the AP test. One only needs to score 60% to get a 5 on the Calc AP exam. My son tested so he could have skipped a semester of Calc at university but we didn’t know what to expect from college and didn’t want him creamed. Plus, can’t compare high school math to college math - it depends on the rigor of the math curriculum at the school. </p>
<p>I would not advise a student to skip into Calc 2 unless he’s already taking college math in high school.</p>