<p>Hi! I am planning to study calc bc over the summer. I have an old textbook and the kaplan 2012 ap calc review book. I was wondering if this review book is good or not. Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>The review book is fine, but you shouldn’t try to learn Calc BC with just the review book (it’s called a “review” book for a reason). But with your other textbook and the internet, Wikipedia, other people to help you, you should be just fine.</p>
<p>AP Calc is not to be taken lightly. Unless you’ve had AB before, BC will be a huge pain.</p>
<p>Why would you self study calculus?
If you are going to self study, do it on something easy and useless like enivronmental science or something.
If you are planning on learning higher level math in the future, your cursory knowledge from self-studying will hurt you in the long run. Take a calculus class and learn instead of trying to pass a test that is incredibly easy. Unless if your high school does not offer calculus (highly unlikely but possible), you should never even consider self studying this. It’s possible, but do realize that there is more to calculus than what you need to know for the exam.</p>
<p>After taking BC calculus, I think it is very doable to self study. Once you have derivatives, integrals, series, area, and motion problems down, you have already done much of what is on the exam. Heck, you could even just look at old FRQs on AP central, they don’t vary much really year to year.</p>
<p>If you’ve done well in AB (e.g. 4 or 5), self-studying calculus BC should be very easy. I actually self-studied algebra and made my way to major math competitions (MATHCOUNTS, USAMO, etc.) and 5’s on the calculus tests. You don’t <em>need</em> a calculus course to pass the exam.</p>
<p>However, just like Enmity said, there is a lot (a lot!) more to calculus after BC. I took multi-variable calculus last year, most of the course involved generalizing derivatives, integrals, Taylor series, etc. to higher dimensions. Still, you learn a lot outside the BC curriculum, e.g. Lagrange multipliers, curl, divergence, Stokes’ theorem.</p>
<p>are any of your parents teacher or professors from a college. I manage to take CALTECH calculus 2/3 which is quite hard in high school. I finish CAL BC in Sophomore years and I got a 5 because i went to a private schooll… Most people would procrastinate and digress from their study when done alone.</p>
<p>Good luck</p>
<p>I am self studying calculus bc because i have to take it online next year. I was trying to get a head start lol</p>