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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, would you mind explaining the difference between Calc AB and Calc BC?[/quote]

OP here, not the PP you're referring to but basically the AP people divide Calculus into 3 parts, the A part, the B, part, and the C part.  You do them in that order.  The AB Calc exam is based on just the A and the B parts, and generally gets you out of one semester's worth of Calculus.  BC tests you on B and C, although you have to study the A part too in order to understand the B and the C.  It gets you out of the whole first year of calculus.  So AB is basically at college level class at a high school pace, like many other AP classes that are half speed (e.g. you get a semester's credit for a year), whereas BC is a college level class taught at college speed.

Someone can correct me if I've got that wrong.

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Thank you! We just got results from AP Calc AB - a 5. Makes me wish DC had taken AP Calc BC, if it's true that the elite colleges are much more impressed by AP  Calc BC. It's a little late now, unfortunately....[/quote]

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