Should I take the Calc BC exam? or AB?

[5wa993r]

<p>So basically, at school I'm taking an AB only course. (BC is offered only as another full year course)</p>

<p>I was planning on taking the BC exam however, thinking I'd be able to selfstudy the BC material.
My close friend self studied the BC material in a week (!) and got a 5. (he had previously gotten a 5 on the AB exam.)</p>

<p>However, I talked to my calculus teacher about it and I feel like he's discouraging me against it.
In his words, "I'm confident that you can get a 5 on AB, a 4 if you have a bad day. But there's a much greater chance of you getting a 3 or even lower on the BC exam"</p>

<p>haha... but yeah now I'm worried.</p>

<p>things to keep in mind:</p>

<p>-I wanted to take the BC exam this year to basically force room in my schedule next year for stats
-I have begun reviewing for the exam, but am waiting to review more AB concepts before learning BC concepts (using Barrons)
-I have been cruising through the school AB course, but will require lots more review to be able to remember all of the AB concepts
-I am not going into engineering/anything that highly emphasizes the need for calculus. a 4 on BC and subscore would not hurt me at all.</p>

<p>Is it worth it to take the risk?!!
I have until this Friday to change from BC exam to AB exam</p>

<p>Has anyone self-studied BC within a couple months, while taking AB?
Give me your thoughts, please!</p>

[5wa993r]

<p>no one wants to help me out? ):</p>

[aoeder]

<p>Take the BC exam. Most colleges will grant credit for the AB portion (even if you do poorly on the BC parts) since there is a separate “AB Subscore”.</p>

[Pseble]

<p>I wouldn’t risk it. If you really want to squeeze room for stats, do both ap calc bc and ap stats next year. The BC questions might really throw you off and waste a lot of time. You may also need to distinguish if you need to do a BC technique for solving an integral and you might spend forever trying to do that problem that seems impossible with U-Sub</p>