<p>I am thinking about self-studying the BC portion of calc, but I do not know if I can really do it since I am stacked this year as of AP courses. I am currently in AP calc, but most likely we will cover all of the AB part and not even touch the BC part.</p>
<p>SO for the people who took BC, How many hours did you put in and how many topics are there to learn? How hard are they compared to the AB topics? IS the effort worth to waive calc 2 in college or should I just take calc 2 in college if needed?</p>
<p>I guess it would be a stretch seeing that BC goes through AB in a few months and then spends rest of the school year on advanced calc chapters. It will obviously be some hard work, but if you are so inclined, find a good used textbook on amazon and a review book and get cracking.</p>
<p>You would definitely need to put some work in, and do extra pratice problems. For example, BC Covers many more techniques for integration such as partial fractions, integration by parts, trig substitution, z-substition, etc. In addition, you’d have to study sequences and series.</p>
<p>It’s manageable, but you’d need to find a review book and figure out the topics that you have to learn by yourself and start studying</p>
What is that? I assume that do you not mean what most people call u-substitution because you say “many more techniques” in comparison to AB (AB covers u-substitution).</p>