Originally Posted by nicoledad
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 ?
Go to the College Board Web site.

AP Calculus AB - One Semester/Quarter of college calculus. taught over one year of H.S.
AP Calculus BC Two Semesters/Quarters of college calculus. taught over one year of H.S.

This is the way college board expects them to be taken. The BC test has two parts and one gets two grades, one for the AP part and one for the BC part.

In our school district these are taught as an EITHER/OR. I have heard of school's that offer them instead as a two year sequence. But no H.S.'s that I know of do it that way. If my son was to take AB next year, and then take BC the following year he would spend a semester repeating the first semesters topics.

Last edited by bluemagic; 03/09/15 01:22 PM.