<p>I posted this in the AP section, but I wonder what feedback this would get from the college section.
I got an A in Calculus I from a community college; should i still take the calc AB test? I'm taking 7 other AP tests and I don't know if I should spend time preparing for this. Would it look better to colleges if I had the score for calc AB?</p>
<p>Well Calc AB is one of the few AP tests you can any resemblance of credit for. A 4 or a 5 on the AB test will let you take 18.01A (6 weeks of single variable review and then multi-variable the rest of the semester and IAP). In terms of credit it is probably a good idea.</p>
<p>Not sure how the adcoms look at AP scores in the decision process.</p>
<p>hm… but would getting an A from an accredited community college already give me the credits?</p>
<p>You could try to transfer the credit, but it would probably be easier to take the calc BC test if you wanted credit. You should take a look at the 18.01 OCW page or at the AP syllabus to see if you’ve covered all the topics. This is really the only way that you can get credit for math - they won’t give you transfer credit if the material doesn’t line up (if you’ve only done half the material, for example). Otherwise it’s just as easy to take the ASE in the fall, if you haven’t forgotten everything.</p>
<p>More info on transfer and AP credit policies for 18.01 and 18.02 can be found [url=<a href=“http://www-math.mit.edu/academics/undergrad/first/]here[/url”>First Year Subjects]here[/url</a>] on the math department’s webpage.</p>
<p>From someone having taken the AP Calc BC test, and am currently taking multivariable calc at a college.</p>
<p>Calc 1 is not exactly like AB. the difference between AP Calc AB and BC is difficulty, and they throw in series, and a lot of other stuff. So AB still gets through integration, and all other sorts of stuff.</p>
<p>I am not sure how far you got in your Calc 1 class, but I have a feeling AB will have more information than you. I am sure you would be able to teach yourself all the additional material, but what I would do is find out exactly what the AB curriculum is, and study what you have not learned.</p>
<p>I was enrolled in an AP calc AB class, but I decided to take the BC test, so I took 2 months of studying and I got a 5 (obviously not just for that class, lol, but try to start now, and study for it. You have a lot of other AP tests so try to rank which ones are important to you, and try to study for all of them, focusing on your important ones.</p>
<p>If you are proficient in calculus, you shouldn’t really need to prepare much for the AP test.</p>