<p>I got a 4 on BC and Ab subscore, so I can skip calc 2. I self-studied BC. However, do you think I should skip calc 2 and go straight to calc 3? Or should I take calc 2? How much of calc 2 carries over to calc 3?</p>
<p>Wow your school lets a 4 on the AB pass you out of Calc2? </p>
<p>Anyways, yes just about everything in Calc2 is used in Calc3. You'll be doing a lot more integration (including polar and parametric equations) and then into partial derivatives. At least thats what we did.</p>
<p>cal 2 has pretty much nothing to do with cal 3. Cal 3 is like cal 1 plus z-axis</p>
<p>Id start from calc 1 and get the easy A's. The AP credits do not give proper prerequisites. AP classes are jokes and to easy.</p>
<p>No, starting from calc 1 would waste time that you could be using to alleviate your class load. You earned those credits and you have the right to use them to take less hours.</p>
<p>I'm a little hestitant about advising you to skip Calculus 2 since you scored a 4 on the AP. However, if you didn't really study too hard and found the exam easy, go ahead and skip Calculus 2.</p>
<p>Just be cautious, Calculus 3 will carry many of the Cal 1/Cal2 concepts over such as series, convergence, integrals, vectors and differentials--make sure you have a STRONG grasp.</p>
<p>auscguy I'm not sure where you went to school but in calc3 at my school we used a lot of concepts from both calc1 and 2. We integrated polar and parametric equations, solved related rates problems, and solved partial derivates for example. Though we did do some non-calc concepts as well.</p>
<p>You need the second half of single-variable (I think that's what a lot of people call Calc 2) for multi-variable (I think this is Calc 3). I will note, though, that I thought multi-variable was much easier than the second half of single-variable.</p>
<p>I think that what you should do depends on how comfortable you are with the material that you're considering skipping. An AP test is just how you did on one day. Do you feel like you know the stuff pretty well and could apply it?</p>
<p>I don't remember using much Cal 2 in Cal 3. However, the next class, Differential Equations used a lot of Cal 2 integral rules...partial fractions, integration by parts, trig subs, etc. If you can remember and are good with those then go ahead and skip it. Fortunately I had an easy going DE teacher who made his tests simple (nothing deliberately tricky).</p>
<p>If your going to be an engineer then take calc1-3 in college otherwise the answer is no</p>
<p>Retaking calc 1 isn't necessary. You could get through calc 2 without taking 1 in college.</p>