HELP!Math: 9th grader in desperate need for advice!

Jacobtess
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:45:49 +0000

Hi Guys, I’m a freshman in HS and lately, my favorite subject has become math and bio, albeit is used to be English (Slight preference for math over bio). I’m in all honors courses, and plan on taking the most AP’s and electives possible over the course of high sschool. However, one mistake which I enormously regret is not taking the Math 9 advanced class in 8th grade. Now I’m learning algebra which is very easy, but I hear from my fellow peers in advanced math (geometry; they took algebra regents already), that geometry isn’t too much of a challenge. I wish I was in that accelerated course, but I recently heard of a possibilty of learning geometry during the summer (3 hours a day), and then taking the Regents in August. Is this possible (assuming my school will give credit) from a state/legal point of view? Will I be able to take the Regents in August? How hard can it be to teach myself Geometry in 50 days? Is it worthwhile? If so, how can I teach myself (which books, what topics etc.) Please, I need counsel, and I beg of you not to poke fun, this is a serious question.