Calculus BC can be offered by schools that are able to complete all the prerequisites before the course. Calculus BC is a full-year course in the calculus of functions of a single variable. It includes all topics covered in Calculus AB plus additional topics. Both courses represent college-level mathematics for which most colleges grant advanced placement and credit. The content of Calculus BC is designed to qualify the student for placement and credit in a course that is one course beyond that granted for Calculus AB.

This course focuses on the techniques and applications of differential calculus and introduces integral calculus. The goals are to enable students to understand that differentiation is a study of the rate of change of functions and to develop and analyze mathematical models for solving problems. Additionally, students should learn techniques of integration and be able to interpret the meaning of the definite integral in several applications. Topics to be covered include limits, continuity, derivatives of algebraic, logarithmic, exponential, and trigonometric functions, applications of differentiation, Riemann sums, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, and techniques and applications of integration.