<p>You can most certainly self-study the AP Exam and do well. </p>
<p>Wow, your school sounds terrible. Mediocre instruction in alg/geo/precal could be detrimental, so you might want to brush up on those before going on to calculus. What trips many people in calculus, and especially the AP, are not necessarily calculus mistakes, they are algebra mistakes. If your school really is that bad (sounds bad), I’m wondering what kind of instruction and training you got in the previous math courses. </p>
<p>MathProf- How many years have you been teaching and have you been successful in helping kids pass AP Calc?</p>