<p>How hard is it to self study Calc BC while taking the Calc AB course?</p>
<p>I self-studied Calc BC in a week (along with doing all my other homework, reading The Great Gatsby, and studying other APs). It's extremely easy to self-study. I got no help from my AB teacher and still understood most of the material. I thought I understood Taylor Series but was, well, disappointed on the FRs (one of them anyway) on the AP exam. But, apparently, almost no one else knew what to do, either.</p>
<p>The only problem with self-studying BC is that you either have to wait until your class covers all the prerequisite AB material or study ahead in AB to be able to get to BC in time. I would guess you're smart enough (since you want to challenge yourself) to do this.</p>
<p>I obviously can't yet say for certain what grade I got, but I'm guessing it'll be a 5.</p>
<p>If you have any more questions, just PM me or ask here or w/e.</p>
<p>I did the exact same thing you did prosperous (using both the PR book and CTY online). The 2007 AP Calc BC exam turned out to be very easy. The FRQ for 2007 were not hard, they just required you to truly understand calculus (unlike the old FRQ where the format was the same every time and you could just memorize the question format). As long as you understand the material (use prep books solely for practice tests, NOT to learn), you will get a 5. I am positive that I got a 5 on my exam.</p>
<p>What books/materials did you use, iin77? Do you know anything about the Arco brand books? </p>
<p>Thanks for both replies, I feel more confident about doing this.</p>
<p>I used the AB book for my BC studying. The only thing that wasn't in it was vector function analysis/derivatives. There was only one question on the exam over vectors, anyway, and I already knew how to do it from precalc.</p>
<p>The book is Single Variable Calculus, 4th Ed, James Stewart. I just used that w/ the list of concepts you need to know on collegeboard.</p>
<p>Dunno anything about any other calc books.</p>
<p>I want to do the same thing posperous, so I can't really help from experience. . . but I'm having trouble finding review books- there's several recommended on this site.</p>
<p>It seems like it wouldn't even matter if you did a terrible job of self-studying, because you get an AB subscore anyway. That's why I don't understand why everyone who took the AB class doesn't just take the BC exam, there doesn't seem to be any "risk" to it, nothing to lose at all. (Unless there's a college that takes the AB exam scores but not AB subscores, but I've never heard of that)</p>
<p>I was able to review the entire Calculus AB and BC curricula in three weeks, so if AB is already over it is approximately two and a half more chapters of Stewart's book.</p>
<p>If you are interested in the book Calculus (5e) by Stewart (the one iinn77 posted), I am selling it. It is useful for college calculus as well . Message me if interested.</p>