<p>Will a high school student who received a B in pre-calc normally be prepared to take Calculus I in college? </p>
<p>I was thinking yes until I saw how little credit colleges give high school foreign language (3 years in high school excuses you from 1 year in college).</p>
<p>yea you’re probably prepared…i know people who had Cs in pre-calc and pass their calculus class</p>
<p>Foreign languages are also a lot different between college and high school!</p>
<p>For example, the weekly requirement for a 4-unit beginning Spanish class here is:
-4 hours of class per week
-1 hour of tutoring
-2 hours of language lab</p>
<p>…And that’s really not enough (granted, any more than that would make it almost impossible to take the class because of time, but still…)</p>
<p>For the Spanish I/II class I will be taking this summer in Guadalajara, MX (meaning I will have a 24/7 language “lab”), I will have 80 contact hours per class (equivalent to 5 hrs/wk of class).</p>
<p>There’s really just no way that high school foreign language compares…</p>
<p>On the other hand, most collegiate calculus courses are 4- or 5- units and meet most days of the week but have no lab requirements (unless they’re applied courses), so, if anything, an HS Calc I AP <em>may</em> actually cover a little bit more than a college Calc I (i.e., you get into some rudimentary Calc II concepts)</p>
<p>It all depends how much you study for the placement test, and a bit of luck. I’d say probably not if you don’t have a strict no-calculator, repetitive-boring-old-problem style math class.</p>