<p>I am self-studying, so I just want to see what the pace are.</p>
<p>In Calculus BC, we are finishing chapter 9 (Sequences and Series, Tests for Convergence, Power Series, Taylor Series, Maclaurin Series, etc.).</p>
<p>AP English Lang&Comp - there’s no set curriculum. So pretty much, in my class, we just write essays (Definition Essay and two timed rhetorical analysis essays) and rhetorically analyze essays by well-known writers.</p>
<p>@314159265</p>
<p>Isn’t that like the last chapter of AP Calculus BC? The Exam is still in May…</p>
<p>the last chapter for Calc BC is polar and parametric functions.</p>
<p>@jerrry4445</p>
<p>I thought those topics were prerequisites in many prep books like PR and Peterson’s. Isn’t there a topic on the integrals of parametric?</p>
<p>they are, but you have to learn how to do calculus involving parametric and polar, such as finding the area of a polar function. There was a FR question a few years ago that involves a polar function. And last year, Number 3 on FR is a parametric problem.</p>
<p>For this year’s FR for BC, I feel that it will have polar, but I hope not. It is one of the most difficult calculus concept in Calc BC.</p>
<p>In Calculus BC we are just finishing section 3 in chapter 9 which deals with Taylor’s inequality. We should be done with the entire book before our Spring Break (beginning of April) which leaves us with about a month of prepping for the exam.</p>
<p>To be honest, chapter 9 is probably the hardest in the book. It envolves a little more conceptual problem-solving which tends to make things more difficult. If you buy Princeton Review’s Calculus AB/BC preparation book and go through the entire thing you should be in pretty good shape for the exam.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>But isn’t that part of the intergral and derivative chapters? Because I am self-studying right now and I am only covering all the AB topics right now and some easy BC topics like L’Hospital Rule.</p>
<p>Are you asking about chapter 9? You may be learning term-by-term differentiation or integration, which incorporates a function’s series. That’s the easy stuff though, and i don’t think it’s commonly tested on the exam especially on a free-response question. Last year’s “chapter 9” free-response question was very tricky. They always have a free-response that uses the skills learned in chapter 9 so I’m just making sure i know it like the back of my hand.</p>
<p>Our BC class just finished parametric and polar functions, but we have not yet done sequences and series.</p>
<p>no I think Enigm4ticAn0maly is speaking of chapter 9 in Stewarts Calculus while lemone is thinking of the PR book</p>
<p>I have one other question, did you guys stress a bit on the Rectangular rules and trapezoid rules? I am self-studying so I like to know what to prepare for the Exam.</p>
<p>by rectangle, you mean left-hand and right-hand, right? yeah, you have to learn that for the exam. Same for trapezoidal. It’s not that hard. you just find the area for each rectangle and add them up. trapezoidal - use area formula of a trapezoid. I know there’s another equation for trapezoidal, but it doesn’t help much for me on FR.</p>
<p>AP Calc BC - just finished up Polar/Parametric functions.</p>
<p>We’re going to do about a month of multivariate calc and then a month of review. :)</p>
<p>In BC, we are currently on volumes. The pace of the other classes sounds incredible.</p>
<p>I`ll catch up within a week…</p>
<p>Yeah, we use the Larson, Hostetler, Edwards book. We test on chapter 9 (Sequences & Series and whatnot) on Wednesday. One more chapter (conics, polar, parametric) left! After we finish the book, our teacher launches into a 2 to 3 month long AP Review session until the AP test (we don’t do any multivariable calculus).</p>