<p>Should I be worried about this? I self-studied during the summer and so far I've learned limits (chapter 2) and derivatives (chapter 3) such as chain rule, implicit differentiation . Right now I'm half-way done with ch. 4 which has to do with "applications of derivatives." After this i will be moving on to integrals (chapter 5). This is all by myself, the teacher just started limits and is on chapter 2. I asked her about this and she told me to change to AB because she expects me to know the AB material. Although she doesn't know that I already know portions of it because of my independent study. I've heard that in BC, the teacher will teach the AB part first and then teach BC part so i shouldn't worry. However, I need more approval.</p>
<p>It’s not very hard. If you’re really struggling/scared, there’s a thread in this subforum called “guide to self studying BC while taking AB” or something like that, read it.</p>
<p>My son is in a similar situation in an IB program, and he was worried about it at first, but it seems to be working out for him.</p>
<p>Dude everyone in my school that takes BC does honors precalc the year before. You don’t need AP Calc AB as a prereq to do BC.</p>
<p>You shouldn’t be worried at all. You already know much more than anyone in my school taking Calculus BC knows. I’m going into the class having taken a regular Precalculus course which covered basic limits and an introduction to the derivative. My friend, who took AP Calculus AB as an 11th grader (first time in the history of our school), wasn’t even allowed to take BC because it would apparently be too easy for him.</p>
<p>Calc AB and BC are the same thing but in BC Calc there are two more concepts added into the lesson. So BC Calc moves a little faster.</p>
<p>It really depends on the way your school is structured.</p>
<p>Some schools offer AB, followed by BC. It sounds from what your teacher has said that this is the progression in your school, in which case it may be difficult to jump straight from precalculus to BC. (It’s interesting that your teacher is talking about limits from Chapter 2, though.)</p>
<p>Other schools offer AB or BC, but you don’t take both. In these schools, you’d learn all the AB material as you go before picking up the BC concepts. It doesn’t sound like this is your school from your teacher’s description, but clearly, if this were the case, you would be fine.</p>
<p>So it would be okay if i stay in BC?</p>
<p>If you have been doing alright on assessments and you self-studied you should be fine. Your scenario doesn’t make sense though, because AB is not a pre-requisite for BC. BC is a year long course that combines material from the college courses Calculus I and Calculus II. It’s like doing a condensed version of both within a year, but it doesn’t require you to know any calculus before enrolling.</p>
<p>Oh ok, thanks guys this makes me feel a lot better, and im actually doing really good right now. ^.^</p>