<p>Get excited...</p>
<p>How tough is this class at your school?</p>
<p>What is everyone doing this summer to prepare for the class?</p>
<p>GetaFive.com and Ms. Roschan’s are both great websites to use for video lectures.
Khanacademy and PatrickJMT are good for specific examples and work great as a supplement.
Barron’s and Princeton Review are great books because Princeton Review gives the easy questions that model the test difficulty, but Barron’s throws in more complex problems where you can develop your knowledge of concepts.
@151Andrew151 AP calculus AB is not difficult and BC better models a college level course (although slightly weaker version).</p>
<p>@jimmyboy23 I agree completely! I used GetaFive for AP world history and found it super helpful. I definitely love Barron’s, PR, and Khan academy. </p>
<p>Hmm I’m just doing Coursera’s Single Variable Calculus course to prepare for this. <a href=“https://www.coursera.org/course/calcsing”>https://www.coursera.org/course/calcsing</a>
So far it seems to be pretty good.</p>
<p>Taking this next year</p>
<p>Should I bother doing some Calc stuff over the summer to prep for the course or would I be fine coming in with just precal knowledge?</p>
<p>@Zeppelin7 I have the same question…A few weeks before school starts I will review trig functions and how to calculate area under a curve</p>
<p>The teacher will almost definitely skip the review of functions present as the first chapter in most textbooks. Know those and the unit circle and you are ready for Calculus.I went into AB after an abysmal year of learning nothing in precal. It was tough not knowing some trig info and it definitely helps to know that and logs and exponentials down pat.</p>
<p>Some resources I am using to review calculus before college and will definitely help in AP:
■■■■■■■■■■ (for the overachiever it provides all solutions for your textbook s you can do even problems as practice)
<a href=“Lec 1 | MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007 - YouTube”>Lec 1 | MIT 18.01 Single Variable Calculus, Fall 2007 - YouTube; (MIT lecture; unhelpful for AP unless if you just love calculus; too proof-based for AP)
<a href=“MIT 18.01SC: Homework Help for Single Variable Calculus - YouTube”>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL21BCE50ABFF029F1</a> (this is MIT as well but all they do in these videos are practice problems and applications; much more helpful for AP calculus)
<a href=“LearnAPCalculus - YouTube”>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnELSn4D5cn73PmtrtaTXhA</a> (Princeton review lectures; I believe this is an absolute must for review before a midterm, final or the AP. Put it on double speed though)
<a href=“http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/”>http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/</a> Good concise notes if you don’t like your textbook’s examples
The others I posted about before</p>
<p>I also found Khan Academy to be very valuable towards the end of pre calc, so maybe it will be good for the beginning of calc as well</p>
<p>Does anyone think taking the AB class (my school doesn’t offer BC) and self studying the extra topics for the BC exam is feasible?</p>
<p>depends on what else your doing. It’s about 5 chapters worth of information so it would be like studying an additional course during the spring (you can’t really start before then because you don’t know integration yet).</p>
<p>@jimmyboy23 hmm not sure what you mean by “what else you’re doing” - as in other coursework? In any case I heard the big extra topic is series/Taylor series - is that true? Thanks for your help :)</p>
<p>What I meant was really anything that is significantly time consuming like other APs, work, and sports. Series is the biggest topic in the BC curriculum, but polar/parametric curves are also big and you will get about 5 multiple choice on advanced integration techniques.</p>
<p>I just took the BC exam and the absolute best thing to do to prepare is to look at all the college board released previous free response questions. Do them all and don’t cheat it out. Grade yourself honestly based on the rubrics and learn where your errors lie most often. If you don’t understand something completely the best site in my opinion is Khan Academy.
After awhile you will be sick of FRQs, but you will see patterns among them. For example there’s ALWAYS a FRQ about parametric/polar. There will most likely be a taylor/maclauren series FRQ as well.
Doing these FRQs will also make the multiple choice questions seem like a breeze!
BC was easy to those who did well in AB because it was just a continuation with very little new material after you get the hang out integration and differentiation in AB. Also AB had a lot of limits, and they rarely showed up in BC.</p>
<p>Calculus is considered the toughest AP at my school mostly because Calc AB is taken everyday 1st semester, and then we take BC everyday 2nd semester. So it’s nonstop calc every morning and loads of book work. But it is worth it! Idk what colleges you are looking towards, but a lot of schools accept a 3 on the BC exam for college credit as well as a 3 on the AB sub score. </p>
<p>I"m worried for this one. Due to block schedule, I have the class august-december only. In addition, my AB teacher was gone for about a month of our four month class period (right after the rest of the class finished the basics so right when I woke up from my 2 month nap) and therefore my class is in general very iffy on calc. I did manage to pull a 5 on the practice AP test we used for thr final, but I chose to save money and not take the AB test and rest on the BC test to get me credit. How much material is added after AB and is it retainable?</p>
<p>Just had my first BC class and I already have three hours of homework. What a great year we’re all heading into. </p>
<p>Bc is much harder. We had like 10 hours of hw the first week total. IMO the class is much harder than the exam at my school.</p>
<p>Despite also having 3hrs initially for hw too, my teacher goes through every single problem in the textbook and vets them so often times we only get 7ish problems per section, and even then homework isn’t taken up so that’s nice. Plus my teacher’s pretty chill and will blow you mind like everyday. How are your guys’s teachers?</p>
<p>same here; class much harder than exam</p>