BC Calculus Tutoring Hardest Course In High School
For what my opinion is worth, BC Calculus is the most difficult course you can take as a high school student. The entire curriculum of AB Calculus is only the core of this class, and many teachers justify increasing the average difficulty per question because of it. The AB curriculum is made more difficult by adding additional differentiation and integration techniques as well as adding an entire unit on infinite series, which turns out to be extremely elaborate and confusing. This is a class for those who are looking to pursue math and science in their future studies. A great portion of the credits in my degree in Physics and Applied Mathematics consists of calculus classes. It is probably my very favorite course to tutor next to the ACT.Â
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A dense class for heavy hitters
BC Calculus students experience a heavy workload with confusing topics for the entire year, punctuated at the end by the most difficult topic they've seen so far: infinite series.
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Frequent AP reviews are critical
There are so many different topics in this class, ad very little time is usually available to review at the end of April before the exam in May. As a result, reviewing as the year progresses is more important than another AP class.
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Earn two semesters of college credit
Nearly every school will give college credit for a score of a 4 or a 5 on the BC Calculus AP exam. This allows students really interested in studying math and science to jump right into differential equations as a freshman.