@ttb1263 alright I’ll think
@skieurope lol alright I’ll write more clearly on college confidential then.
its not that i can’t write its just that I thought college confidential an informal place
@DadTwoGirls interesting
“the only math thats really insanely hard is combinatorics”
“…see if I can go anywhere cool with it”
and as for that statement that was an understatement and I just said that mindlessly
@skieurope also I took psat and I did alright I think, I got a 1480 on one of the practice tests they give out for free
@skieurope @DadTwoGirls @ttb1263 heres the real reason no bs, I wanna skip precalc because I dont wanna take the teacher, her pass rate with an A is 30 percent and she fails 10% of the kids in her class she lets you stay over lunch if you need help with concepts but most of the time people do garbage in the class because the quizzes/tests have too many questions too little time, the final will drop your grade 5% and she wants the homework exactly like hers and it has to be correct or else you get NO credit. I will literally fail if I don’t skip this, is this
As someone advanced in math, getting an A without extra help should not be a struggle for you. And if you cannot easily get an A, skipping should not even be a consideration. The probability that you will “literally fail” is zero. And if you are expecting a class with 30% of the class gets an A, that speaks to huge grade inflation at your school. Additionally, circumventing a challenge will do you no favors in college admissions.
When you get to college, you may be faced with a less-than-stellar professor in a required class with no options to bypass. Welcome to the real world.
Bottom line, you have not given a valid reason.
I’m confused. You think math is so easy that you can just skip over a fundamental course in the standard math sequence and learn Calc without the fundamentals, because it’s not hard.
Then you don’t want to take PreCalc because you’re afraid the teacher is too hard and you will fail the class?
It’s fairly obvious that the unanimous advice is not to skip PreCalc. If you’re already made up your mind that you’d going to skip it, then continuing to ask, fishing for someone to agree with you, is rather pointless. Just come back in a few years and let us know how it worked out.
From experience, we won’t need to wait a few years. If such a user returns to update, it is in a few months with a thread titled “Help!!! I’m failing calc. What do I do?” Or in July with a thread called “Help!!! I got a 3 on the AP exam? How can I contest?” ?
@RichInPitt the teacher and the course material itself have nothing in common, if we had a teacher for precalculus that would have not given us 15 word problems to do in 13 minutes it might have been maybe a bit more tolerable, and maybe not spending around 2 hours everyday perfect your math homework to look perfect. Again, let me repeat what I said earlier "she lets you stay over lunch if you need help with concepts but most of the time people do garbage in the class because the quizzes/tests have too many questions too little time, the final will drop your grade 5% and she wants the homework exactly like hers and it has to be correct or else you get NO credit. "
@skieurope and no its not that there is super inflation is my schools, its that it is precalculus honors not regular, with regular most people would getting around a C- on average.
what experience do you have or is it just a prediction ?
I think the other respondents on this thread will tell you that I have a lot of experience on these topics. What I said may (or may not) pertain to you. None of us know you IRL, so cannot predict for you.
We saw it the first time. So none of us know the teacher, therefore it’s a one-sided story. But a teacher that offers extra help is not a negative. As for how she conducts tests and homework, as I said before, welcome to the real world. Wait until college when weekly problem sets take 10-20 hours it complete and the median on midterms is a 60.
I understand your point of the real world but do you have any specific cases that are skipping precalculus and the aftermath of doing so. If so, can you post them here
Is everything on this quiz easy for you to solve correctly?
http://www.math.buffalo.edu/rur/rurci3.cgi
I did the curves and factoring one and I got an a 7/10 I only missed some mainly because I didn’t know how to solve it, but I can learn
@m8thical. Take the Pre-Calc. You mostly seem worried that you will not get an A in the class. Don’t stress. In my first Calc class in college the professor would give a passing grade (I repeat passing) to anyone with a score of over 80%. His reasoning was if you’re going to be an engineer you need to really know the math. I still have bad dreams about taking that final…Your math ability in college will thank you for the depth and strength you develop in high school.
If you are not easily getting all of the questions in all of the topics correct, it is really a better idea to take precalculus.