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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depend on your school, in our school
Low math track kids take Calc AB then done 
High math track kids take Calc BC directly [/quote]

Ditto. Seems like a waste of time to take Calc AB and then repeat the same curriculum during the first semester of BC[/quote]

Does it?  Do you also think there is no value in re-teaching addition year after year with more depth and complexity thrown in?  Or do you think that we should show you addition once in your high powered rigorous preschool and call it quits?  Math is learned through practice and struggle with concepts and problems.  You can take Calc AB after being a Prof for many years and should be able to get some new insight from it. [/quote]

Sued you can retake all the math classes multiply times for practice, but it won’t look good for college, that’s what OP is asking [/quote]

Almost every class reviews and extends previous class.

Skipping a class and the taking AB and BC is no worse than not skipping a class and taking BC.
Colleges don't care about hyper acceleration because they like teaching their elite college versions of courses, not students skipping them via watered down basic courses. The few students who actually studied advanced calculus at the elite college level are identified not by their coursework but by extracurricular mathematical achievement. [/quote]

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