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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, this is probably right. In my DC's BC class, several kids took AB Calc last year. Some are doing well; some are struggling.

For the OP: what does your DD want to study in college? If she is going STEM, then AP is probably a good idea, if she's doing humanities, why not let her take regular Calc (still pretty impressive) and give her the space to do great things on her tough AP's in humanities?

FWIW, a friend's child spent three weeks struggling in AP Calc AB after Honors Pre-Calc this year, then dropped to regular Calc with Applications and is much, much happier. This person plans to study humanities, so this was the perfect level for them.[/quote]

Op here. Are you sure it was honors pre-calc. At our school this is considered one of the hardest math classes and feeds into calc BC. I’m surprised that someone coming out of honors precalc and not regular precalc found calc AB so hard. [/quote]

Different PP, here, but last year when my DC was in AB she thinks about 30% of the class decided to drop down to calc w/Apps, and thinks very few would have come from regular pre-calc since regular pre-calc students usually continue to Apps in the first place.  But so much is school dependent.  The calc AB teacher wasn't great and the students weren't that motivated.  She's in BC this year and finds the students much harder working, but is disappointed that it actually doesn't feel like repeating a class, it's moving very quickly and requiring a lot of work to keep up.  Anyway, the comparison between AB and BC at our school is all I can really speak to.  Also, it sounds like the distinction between pre-calc classes is school dependent.  Honors pre-calc was known as a bear at our school but this year things were reworked and my second DC isn't being worked nearly as hard.  And who knows, although my older DC was worked harder in pre-calc it was partly a confidence killer for older DC and others.

Your DC can always sign up for the harder class and plan to re-evaluate quickly in the fall, but senior year does have plenty of other time demands.[/quote]

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