<p>Why would it be instead of? Presumably the same people who would be in the Honors Pre-Calc class wouldn’t be the same as in the Calc class.</p>
<p>Like, my school math courses are weird in a way.</p>
<p>I made the quantum leap from Trig II to Honors Pre-Calculus. Which is now too easy. But from their, there is no Calculus class only AP’s.</p>
<p>Won’t it kinda make more sense to offer that instead of the Honors Pre-Calculus class.</p>
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<p>Linear Algebra, second half of Multivariable Calculus, Probability Theory (equivalent to Math 525 at UMich - same textbook even)</p>
<p>^I think I’ve proven my point.</p>
<p>Humanities easier to BS? Now THAT’S BS. </p>
<p>This question is very subjective. In my opinion, math/science is easier than the humanities. Writing papers is torture. I’d rather do proofs than write a paper.</p>
<p>^You’re an odd one.</p>
<p>A high school perspective: it depends on what you mean by the question.</p>
<p>I certainly think that it’s a LOT harder to become a respected scientist/mathematician because of the people you have to impress - in science/maths, the average guy on the street or the average college student thinking that you’ve got a point means absolutely nothing. If you publish a paper on something, the people you’re aiming at are professors/people with PhDs who’ve published papers themselves and generally people who are more well-known than you.</p>
<p>When it comes to writing a novel, you’re aiming for the general public. You don’t care if Professor X at University of Y thinks you’re a crappy writer, as long as it sells and Oprah likes it, you’re happy. And chances are, no matter how bad a writer you are, someone’s going to buy your book and think you’re great (and no matter how good you are, someone’s going to think you’re terrible). This doesn’t happen as much (at least, as far as I know) in the sciences/maths; if you wrote up something that’s logically sound, nobody other than the young earth creationists from BJU are going to unfairly criticize you.</p>
<p>In school/college, however, I think it could be the other way around, mostly because you’re trying to please one teacher. In science/maths, there’s no question as to what’s right and what’s not; you’ll probably never a professor/teacher that would give you a 30/100 on a paper that your teacher/prof gave you an 80 for. But when it comes to the humanities, this is VERY easy - I’ve noticed in essays that some of my teachers tend to ignore misused words and only target spelling mistakes, others are inconsistent in correcting grammar mistakes; one of my teachers is very lax when it comes to structure, but another would go crazy with her red pen if I didn’t write a five-paragraph topic-sentence-first essay.</p>
<p>That said, I’d rather write a proof than write a novel any day (I’m a maths/physics person). But I have never had to think anywhere near as much with the latter - I’ve spent hours on maths questions without getting anywhere while the most I’ve spent thinking about what to write in an essay was 40 minutes.</p>
<p>Here’s to hoping I didn’t entirely miss the point :P.</p>
<p>Completely agree with bigwill11205. Writing papers is torture. Especially when you have teachers who dock your grade to a 79 immediately if they notice just one grammar mistake - and then start taking off points (relating to the actual content and form of paper) from there.</p>
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<p>not to challenge Your Holiness, but more people in my school are in AP Calc than AP Euro, both fourth years of high school study in their subjects, suggesting the opposite to be true</p>
<p>The annoying thing about English courses, is that often times if your opinions don’t happen to coincide with that of your teachers’, you get heavily penalized. It’s as if THEIR interpretation is the ONLY interpretation. Which is annoying since English is supposed to be subjective. At least in math/science there are definites.</p>
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<p>I’ve found something similar with all of my English teachers. Regardless of the overall quality of the essay or project, they always find something trivial and irrelevant to pick on and end up taking a ton of points off for it. It makes it very hard to keep high A’s in English.</p>
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<p>There were more people in my AP Euro class (about 20, mostly 10th graders) than in my AP Calc class (4).</p>
<p>I spoke first, so I’m right</p>
<p>also, since you’re wrong, I’m going to challenge everything you say because I hate you for challenging what I said >:O</p>
<p>There were like 16 kids in my one Euro class compared to like 100 kids in AB + BC Calc.</p>
<p>I think like many have stated, it is easier to BS humanities, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re easier. Once you reach a certain level (above high school obviously), they become even.</p>
<p>In high school though, the history and english classes are considered jokes and math and science classes are considered the tough ones.</p>
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<p>we’re right you’re wrong end of story slashthread</p>