This may be two dumb questions but how can you take BC without taking A? Also if you had A before why would you repeat it ?
My understanding is that AB covers the first semester of Calc over one full year of high school, and BC covers the first two semesters. I can't in a million years imagine a scenario where a student would take BC after taking AB, but fwiw, our school district suggests that as an option for kids who take AB as juniors (or before). Considering the ability level of the kids who are going to be placed in order to be able to take any Calculus class as a junior or earlier (and I have one), why on earth would the school a) put them in a slower-paced Calc class and b) suggest they repeat a semester's worth of material?
polarbear
ps - just to be clear, you can take BC without taking AB in our district - it's just written into the curriculum that it's ok to take BC after you've taken AB.
