Judge my fate

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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Hi yall! First post ever here

I’m going into my junior year, scheduled to take 4 APs:

APUSH
AP Bio
AP Calc BC
AP Physics C: Mech

I’m pretty much an A+ student, but this is my first time taking any APs, ever. All of my previous classes (“Honors” sciences) have been pretty much Regents-based (I live in New York) with some additional material.

Also, I have not taken any chemistry class yet, nor have I taken pre-calc.

How screwed am I? And how should I approach each class?

And if I post a discussion like this, do people even come across it?

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What was your math sequence that allowed you into BC calc without precalc?

Physics C is very calc heavy.

This seems like a big jump to me to go from 0 APs to 4, especially since you have some of the most challenging AP courses in your schedule.

If you were my child, I would encourage you to put off AP physics until senior year.

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Taking calculus without precalculus, unless your lower level math courses were accelerated to include precalculus material, seems like a very bad idea.

You may want to try the following quiz to check your knowledge on precalculus topics you need to know for calculus:
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/rur/rurci3.cgi

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Oh geez

I took the Math 2 SAT II back in December and got 800 self-studied (though I felt that test was much, much easier than most of the practice problems I’d faced before), so when I prepared for that I must have absorbed a little precalc?

I don’t really want to change my schedule now since school starts soon and I really have interest in those topics, but I’ll keep you in mind and time-manage well as I study!

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To jump to calc I did have to test out of the precalc BC final test (which oddly only covered the “A” portion of calc? they had done all of precalc in the first half of the year and had gotten over it).

I got an 85 which was not too bad, although I struggled a little on those real-world word problems where you have to apply derivatives.

I seem to have aced the Greek letters quiz on your site, but I have the rest of my jumbled precalculus knowledge to sort out this week…

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I would take Honors CHemistry (why didn’t you take it last year?)
I also would think hard about doing two lab sciences at once…what scienes have you taken?

APUSH
AP Bio
AP Calc BC
AP Physics C: Mech

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My original plan was AP Physics and Honors Chemistry, but the scheduling didn’t work. Still liked science, and Bio was able to fit.

I did take bio and physics (both honors) last year together with labs - which was kind of okay - but are AP labs much harder? Or is it just that they will take up so much time?