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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BC calc is really ABC calc (in other words, it has one additional component, the C).  One takes only one or the other because most of what is covered in BC would have already been covered in AB.  [/quote]

Most people would take one or the other--if you feel very confident and strong in math then go straight to Calc BC.  If less so, Calc AB.  But you *can*  take both sequentially.  My kid took Algebra 1 in 7th but didn't quite feel confident to take AP Calc BC their junior year when it came up in their sequence and they had a lot of other AP classes.  So they took AP Calc AB.  But they ended up really loving calc, so they took AP Calc BC their senior year instead of their plan of taking AP Stats.  The first semester was basically the exact same as Calc AB but on a faster pace, the second semester was new content.  But my kid found it worth it--they got a review of Calc AB content and went beyond.  They took linear algebra as their first real college math class in college and did well.[/quote]

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