<p>I'm in AB, and we just finished Limits and Continuity today. I'm curious to see where everyone else is at. </p>
<p>BTW, we started school on the 19 of August. Are we moving slow, fast, or just right?</p>
<p>Seeing as we have only had one class of BC, and that was used just for giving out textbooks and calculators, we haven’t even started the curriculum. The thing is, though, that this course is taught as a continuation of AB so we basically just have to touch on the exclusively BC topics and do review.</p>
<p>For AB, that seems OK. Even though I took BC last year, I have a bunch of friends in the class and I visit the 4th period section often (I TA 4th period) and they’re currently on related rates, which is the end of chapter 2. We started school August 23rd. Do note that the BC class at our school moves faster than others, since the teacher leaves about a good 6 or 7 weeks for “AP Review,” to which he attributes his high-80-something percent pass rate.</p>
<p>We just learned the chain rule and derivatives of trigonometric functions in BC Calculus.</p>
<p>Started school on Aug. 18, we just finished up on the chain rule and derivatives, including product and quotient rule. BC.</p>
<p>Dudee, school started on the 7 and we haven’t learned anything! Literally! We spent the first for days “getting to know” our classmates. I have a feeling my teacher is lazy and we’re not going to come close to finishing</p>
<p>Ughh, we have only had one day of school (the 8th) and then a four day weekend (Jewish holidays). That day was spent by my BC teacher yelling at us and telling us that we would have to take Calc seriously or we would all get 1s (a lot of us are bright students, and she probably knows of how we never really had to work hard in Math B/Pre-Calc/AP Statistics, which means poor class grades but high test scores).</p>
<p>AHH it’s because of schools like yours that we have to take APs in May when school doesn’t end until the end of June for us.</p>
<p>school just started, and dude calc will be over for u quick if ur in ab. honestly, the curriculum is so overextended… for the bc curriculum, most schools culd do limits in a week, derivatives in a month, applications in a month, integration in a month, applications (of integration) in a month, DifEQs in 2 weeks, and series and sequences in 3 weeks. The curriculum shuld be done by february imo. u worry too much.</p>
<p>we learned chain rule and derivs for trig functions halfway through ab lol, right now we’re just reviewing worksheets on derivatives(also implicit) and some integration(we started the first of september), and my teacher is dedicating 3/4 quarter to taylor series</p>
<p>For my BC Calc Class, we just finished Polar Graphs, reviewing Volume of a Revolution right now.</p>
<p>I’m in AB and we’ve only been in school for a week.</p>
<p>We’ve been doing derivatives and definite integrals.</p>
<p>At my school, BC is to be taken after AB. So far it’s only review, but we touched on a new topic - inverse trig differentiation - today. </p>
<p>Just curious, what are your teacher’s pass rates? I’m not sure about AB at my school, but BC’s pass rate for last year was 33/34, with 30 being 5’s.</p>
<p>^^ Wow your class is fast. Did you guys even do limits?
^The pass rate at my school last year was 3/4, though there were only 4 people in the class. The year before that, there were a few more students and a 100% pass rate.</p>
<p>In AB, we’re doing derivatives of trigonometric functions.</p>
<p>Our BC class pass rate was 87% last year, which was the third highest (highest was AP Chem (1 class) at 91% and second was AP English Lit (2 classes, I think) at 88%).</p>
<p>Our AB and BC pass rates last year was 100%. The % of BC takers who got 5’s was 100%. The percentage of AB takers who got 5’s was 98% (the only student not to get a 5 got a 4).</p>
<p>Our school lets you choose between AB or BC as a senior, and I’m in BC. We started school the 26th, and we have a test today on the basics of derivatives.</p>
<p>Our school is small, so last year there were only 18 kids in BC, and I think like 15 got 5s, 2 got 4s, and 1 got a 3. For AB, I think most kids get 3s/4s…probably because the BC teacher is awesome. :)</p>
<p>^^That’s really impressive. Our school’s AB teacher averaged a single-digit pass rate the past 4 or 5 years (with like, 3 classes). This year, there are now 2 AB teachers instead of one. I guess the school got tired of the low pass rates.</p>
<p>^Single digit as in less than 10%??? That’s horrendously low, almost beyond belief.</p>