Advanced Placement
Advanced Placement (AP) Program
This 2011/2012 school year BFS offers three Advanced Placement courses for high school students: AP Calculus, AP Language and Composition, AP World History and AP Biology. Advance Placement courses allow students to earn college credits while still in high school. Most universities and colleges honor the Advanced Placement credits. Students must receive teacher approval before enrolling in all AP courses.
General Rules
Tests are given for college credits in May of each school year.
Parents are responsible for paying the fees for the Advanced Placement Tests.
AP Language and Composition
AP World History
AP Biology
AP Calculus
An Advanced Placement course in calculus consists of a full high school academic year of work that is comparable to calculus courses in colleges and universities. It is expected that students who take an AP course in calculus will seek college credit. Broad concepts and widely applicable methods are emphasized. The focus of the course is neither manipulation nor memorization of an extensive taxonomy of functions, curves, theorems, or problem types. Thus, although facility with manipulation and computational competence are important outcomes, they are not the core of this course. Through the use of the unifying themes of derivatives, integrals, limits, approximation, and applications and modeling, the course becomes a cohesive whole rather than a collection of unrelated topics.