<p>Which is tougher? (Both honors, by the way)</p>
<p>What makes it tougher? etc....etc..</p>
<p>Thanks! :)</p>
<p>I am in Algebra II now and making a B... :( :( :( :(</p>
<p>I have things like</p>
<p>“PreCal is death”</p>
<p>and</p>
<p>“PreCal is a killer”</p>
<p>Pre-Calc is not that hard. </p>
<p>And this comes from a intended English/Creative Writing major who has sworn off math as being the spawn of Satan. </p>
<p>I also have a not-so-into-teaching teacher who basically gives us a few base notes and lets us loose. It’s not bad.</p>
<p>I personally disliked Algebra II more than I dislike Pre-Calc this year. Dunno why, really. Just don’t really like Algebra concepts…</p>
<p>Pre-Cal is harder. I took Algebra 2 last year, and now I’m in pre-calc, which meets every day this semester. I think one of the difficult things from Algebra 2 for me was all of the all of there graphs and equations for certain things on the graph.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s necessarily death or a killer, and my pre-calc teacher is the hardest teacher I’ve had, but a lot of the concepts are difficult to understand. My only advice is if you take it is to definitely ask lots of questions when you don’t get anything, or else you’re screwed because when you learn new things, they usually require to go back to the other things you learned at the beginning of the year.</p>
<p>PreCalc is pretty easy, it’s Trig you gotta watch out for</p>
<p>Pre-Calc comes after Algebra II, so I think that would make it “harder” but really, I think they’re about the same level of difficulty. My entire class thinks pre-calc is really hard, but last year when I was taking (I’m 1 year ahead of the norm) no one complained that much.</p>
<p>Trig ruined my life. :O</p>
<p>I’ve seen Pre-Calc ruin lives… </p>
<p>then again, I’ve seen Alg II do nasty things to people as well…</p>
<p>Trig takes some getting used to.</p>
<p>Ugh, it scares me how people say Precalculus is a killer. I’m in Algebra II right now and I hate it. I have to take Precalc over the summer (a regular course), and move on to AP Calculus BC next year. Is this worth it? Will I just be stressing myself out? Anyone want to comment?</p>
<p>^ In the same situation, except I think that Algebra II is really easy. I feel like we learned it all in 8th grade o.O</p>
<p>Depends, a hard Algebra II makes an easy Pre-Calculus.
An easy Algebra II makes a hard Pre-Calculus.</p>
<p>I got into a tough Algebra II that covered pretty much all of the Trig that the rest of the class did not cover. So I sit back in class and dream away.</p>
<p>If you had a good Algebra II class (meaning a class that was substantially hard, and you did relatively well in it) and already know trig, then precalc will be a breeze. I honestly can’t remember actually learning anything in precalc; it was a lot of trig.</p>
<p>I am not sure if my Algebra II class is actually hard or if I’m just really dumb and slow at math. Or maybe it’s both, who knows.</p>
<p>^ LMAO, same here. Then again, somewhere around eighth and ninth grades I lost a lot of background.</p>
<p>i heard pre calc is way easier than algie 2</p>
<p>Pre calculus seems to vary quite a bit. At some schools it is very challenging whike at others its a manageable course. It depends on the difficulty of exams and quizzes. Some precalculus classes will consist of hard word problems and difficult concepts. In other cases, it may be simplified and not as extended.</p>
<p>For instance, at some schools you will have to prove trig identities and learn to solve complicated functions and interpret “tricky graphs”</p>
<p>At other schools, you will simply have to know these concepts. </p>
<p>I agree with sonofschool64, in his comparison.</p>
<p>precalc has vectors AHHHHHHHHH.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, vectors, polar coordinates, and I think a little bit of limits and derivatives.</p>