<p>my school goes from math analysis to ap calc ab
they teach ur precalc in it with other math stuffs in there
its supposedly better for us or something</p>
<p>yupp… kids in my calc class skipped precalc. the only things i had to remember from precalc was stuff like sin(pi/2) for quick calculation.</p>
<p>I know of someone who went from Math B (required class in NY) to AP Calc BC</p>
<p>? at my school honors math analysis is precalc and parts of calc AB.</p>
<p>These are the worst types of threads. There was no such thing as Precalculus at my school. It was all called Math Analysis.</p>
<p>On a separate note, I’m taking Math Analysis next year :)</p>
<p>^ True? I hope so, we have no precalc at our school either. Just math anal.</p>
<p>our equivalent of math analysis or precalculus is IB Math HL 1. Which I know everything in. But they won’t let me skip into HL 2 or SL 2, so eff my school. I’m taking Calc BC from precalc w trig at my local community college.</p>
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<p>So why are you taking math in high school…?</p>
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<p>^ Because my school will not count CC courses as HS credit, and I’m trying to get my IB Diploma. Might as well take the math class that has topics I know really well.</p>
<p>isn’t math analysis = precalculus? o_O</p>
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<p>Why don’t you change schools then? Your IB diploma gets you what?</p>
<p>IB Diploma at certain colleges gives me sophomore status, at places considered my safeties. The other schools in my county really have no good AP programs.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of a school that gives class standing for having an arbitrary diploma. If you’re interested in science and math and you’re taking a class that’s multiple levels below your knowledge, your school clearly doesn’t have a good program.</p>
<p>It doesn’t, and my county doesn’t really. The class might be multiple levels below my knowledge, but schools in this county never move you up a math without having the prior “math background”. That’s why they put me in pre-alg 7th. It’s not the best, but the school that I technically would be going to has a worse program. I really shouldn’t have slept on my TJHSST entrance test, because scores in the 90th+ percentile probably would put me in.</p>
<p>yeah you cant complain. its your own fault you didnt get into jefferson dude.</p>
<p>Yep. Though asians with lower scores than I did got in, so I’ll always be a tad bitter.
I’ll just kickass in my math classes from here on out and take linear algebra, diff eqs and multivariable at NOVA.</p>
<p>I skipped from Algebra 2 to Calc AB and finished top in the class both semesters. It can be done, but I definitely recommend cracking out a pre-calc book over the summer and just skimming it over.</p>
<p>how do asians with lower grades than a black guy get into a selective school?</p>
<p>isn’t that the exact opposite of affirmative action?</p>
<p>I have no clue how… it legitimately happened though. Of all the times I’ve been to Jefferson, I see NO black people. I’m not sure how it occurred.</p>
<p>They chose 1 kid from our county. Who was Asian, but not even that smart.</p>
<p>well in my school pre calc is called math analysis so its the same thing and my school if u do math analysis u can go ap calc</p>