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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also perfectly acceptable option to do AB junior year and BC senior year (this is from multiple sources).[/quote]

My kid took AB as a junior and BC as a senior.  Because much of the material is the same/similar, he thought he got a good foundation doing it that way.  He is currently a Math/CS double major at William and Mary.[/quote]

Same. Our district highly recommends taking AB first, then BC. [b]Typically there is only 1 kid out of 40 that didn't take AB  first.[/b]  Because of that, BC is taught differently, with the AB portion "covered" as review the first 4-5 weeks, then moving onto the new material.  Unless you have a true budding genius on hand, most kids can benefit from doing it that way.  It's much better to have a strong foundation in Calculus if kid is headed into Engineering/Math/a major that actually uses it.    My kid is extremely strong in math but BC was the first they struggled with. Finished strong and got 5 on the AP test, so starting in Calc 3 this fall at uni.[/quote]

How do you know this?  Are you stalking the entire class?[/quote]

Because my kids took BC, and both had only 1 kid who wasn’t in AB the previous year.  Not stalking at all, and our district highly recommends an first.  So those that don’t do that are kids in calc their soph year—those really pushed ahead [/quote]

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