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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You get an AB sub score when taking BC, because BC covers all AB material plus a little more.

If your kid needs to slow down and do AP+BC, that’s fine, but it’s a little silly to claim it’s because they want a strong foundation. Literally tens of thousands of strong students end up with a 5 after going straight to BC.[/quote]

You have NO clue how many of the BC 5s  skipped AB.

My kid got 5 on both.  So did another 30+ kids at our HS.  Because they require AB before taking BC.  The co rent of an is covered in 2-3 week refresher at start of BC. [/quote]

The majority of schools do either AB or BC, most students getting a 5 on BC don’t also do AB.

You are lying about the AB content being covered in 2-3 weeks. Then what, they spend one year on sequences and series, ie 2 chapters out of 10?

The BC class moves faster, it’s true, but not to the extent you claim. Plenty of students can handle it.[/quote]

I’ve heard AB and BC are the same content for majority of the year except maybe the last few weeks.  So BC goes slightly faster and more in depth, but the content overlap is the majority of the course [/quote]

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