02-29-2012, 07:36 PM | #1 |
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Help me pick the right class! -Math
Hey so im a sophmore in highschool and I have an important question:
I'm in honors trig/pre-calc right now and its fairly easy i have a 92% in the class. Should I take AP Calc AB or AP Calc BC next year? My thinking: 2 years of calc is better than just going to BC. I mean, what would i take after calc BC if i took it next year. Im in alot of other APs and theater and golf is very very time consuming. |
02-29-2012, 07:39 PM | #2 |
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Re: Help me pick the right class! -Math
Take BC.
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02-29-2012, 07:41 PM | #3 |
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Re: Help me pick the right class! -Math
Wouldnt it be better to have a 5 on AB and BC so i have 2 creds for college?
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To be specific: BC = AB + more shit |
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02-29-2012, 07:50 PM | #5 |
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Re: Help me pick the right class! -Math
Well then i should be good since im taking AB + Physics C: Mechanics + Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism (yup they are separate classes) + more easier APs
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02-29-2012, 07:55 PM | #6 |
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yay physics
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02-29-2012, 08:26 PM | #7 |
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Re: Help me pick the right class! -Math
One thing about taking BC - depends how easy math is for you - there will be certain things that you'll be expected to know. ie you may have to self-study a lot of topics.
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02-29-2012, 09:47 PM | #8 |
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Re: Help me pick the right class! -Math
Take intro to negative bpms and basic bpm gimmicks
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02-29-2012, 10:54 PM | #10 |
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AB isn't worth it imo. Just take BC - it'll really help you get a feel for what the pace and load of first year university math (MATH 100/101) is like (except BC has to skip some stuff).
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02-29-2012, 10:58 PM | #11 |
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take bc at school and take diff eq & multivar calculus at a local college
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02-29-2012, 11:09 PM | #12 |
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Re: Help me pick the right class! -Math
Well... seeing all the comments for BC without any real evidence of pros to it as i see my cons still outweigh it (i literally have so many after school activities #derp).
If i take BC junior year ill have nothing for senior year which is gonna kill if i don't take a calc class before college. Ill just take BC senior year so ill be straight up prepared right when i hit college. Every kid at my school said our Calc BC teacher will fail you if you take it before AB first anyways.... |
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It's also foolish to take both AB and BC Calculus throughout high school since you will be covering the same material twice. Any BC Calc teacher who fails you because you haven't taken AB is foolish. |
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02-29-2012, 11:25 PM | #14 |
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no pros to taking bc?
it gets you out of basic math courses in college (usually 2 semesters worth or something) bc is just ab+a bit new material and the material is SUPA easy if you actually do homework bc is also better cause you take 1 class and get 2 AP scores (ab sub, bc score) and you can't use school activities as an excuse if learning ab took 30 minutes everyday, bc would take 33 minutes everyday, it's not any harder than ab, and ab is a waste of time it's like 4 chapters in a calc book - that's ab bc is like 11 chapters, but a lot of the shit is overlapping if u dont take bc, ur choice but you're wasting a year if you take ab (studiez have shown that kidz who took bc soph/junior year at my school have gotten into schools berkeley & higher. mit included) |
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lol "i have so many after school activities"
sack up, BC that shit |
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If you take AB junior year and then BC in senior year you will be incredibly bored for months in BC as you do the same exact material for a lot of the year. Is there really nothing you could take senior year after BC in junior year? Talk to the department maybe.
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Take additional math courses at a local community college or fill the spot with another tough science course or sth similar
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02-29-2012, 11:34 PM | #18 |
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Re: Help me pick the right class! -Math
Conversely, you can say that there are no pros in taking AB.
Also, c'mon, unless you have Reach's schedule, you'll undoubtedly have enough time to study for BC (Considering you have time to study for AB) and to be completely honest, I barely opened up my textbook in that class. If you still go for AB even after all of this discussion, I don't know what to say... |
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bc junior year ap stats senior year (if u already took it then dont take math in school senior year) take differential equations during school year with bc, if you cant do it, do it over summer. if you dont have time, just take bc junior year, dont take math at school and instead take differential equations & multivariable calculus at a local community college. then proceed to discrete math, linear algebra, the good stuff |
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**** i miss college
but post-college is still awesome |
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