<p>I am senior this year and I am already taking Calculus AB and I was thinking about taking the BC part of the exam. I already have decent knowledge on all the topics covered in both exams and other things such as first order differential equations and some applications like Work and Force (pretty much everything before multivariable calculus). So if I were to study engineering(most likely chemical) and do well on the BC part what it be a good idea to skip Calculus 2 or would it be better to just take the AB part and take Calc 2?</p>
<p>depending on the college you go to, you may not want to skip calc 2 as it would be more in-depth than calc bc... it would probably be in your best interests to have a bc background anyway, though. you should probably take bc and, depending on whether or not the school you pick lets you skip their calc 2, go from there.</p>
<p>Honestly I would just take the AB and get out of Calc 1 which is pretty much cake if you feel you could pass the BC. There are some things in Calc 2 that I have a feeling you will not know or not know well. But I am going to a pretty tough school, so it also depends on where you are going to school.</p>
<p>Take BC, review the rest of calc 2 over the summer if it sucks, and start with Multivariable.</p>
<p>a 5 on the BC exam is only about a 50%. I suggest doing BC if you've done even a few days of studying calc 2.</p>
<p>Take the AP, heck take any AP you can get. Taking Economics, Statistics, Physics or any other basic level class will free up your schedule and save you serious dollars.</p>
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<p>I was highly skeptical when I read this, but I looked up a little about the scoring, and in 2003, a possible total composite score of 108 was achievable. A score of 64/108 or higher resulted in a five.</p>
<p>Still, being slightly familiar with how AP exams are graded, I can assure you that a 59% on the AP exam is not comparable to getting, for example, just under a D-. It's curved heavily, yes, but the AP BC exam isn't a cakewalk. If you know the material for the BC Cal exam and score a 5, you're probably in pretty good shape to skip college calculus. I did, and I had no trouble with any subsequent courses.</p>
<p>I wouldn't recommend just walking in and taking the thing, though. You could probably pass the bar exam with a fifty percent score-- doesn't mean that if you don't know the material beforehand, you're going to breeze through with no problem and pick up half the points. You'll just fail it spectacularly and get a 7%, or something.</p>
<p>there is 60% overlap between AB and BC. so you have to make up that 40% of the coursework that you missed out on by taking AB.</p>