<p>I wasn't really sure which forum to place this in, it's a very confusing website.</p>
<p>Anyways, I have a situation. While in High School in Florida back in the late 1990's in my freshman year we had block scheduling, the first half of the year I was placed into a consumer math class and aced it. For the second half of the year I was placed in Algebra I. I completely bombed the first semester with an average of like 12. I didn't understand it, it made little sense, and our teacher wasn't exactly of the highest quality. The school transferred me out of Algebra for the final nine weeks and into a PE class. They had my parents sign a waiver claiming that the consumer math class would be used in place of an algebra credit.</p>
<p>Leaving school in 2001, I never gave it a second thought and didn't go to college right away, I went to work. I'm now 31 years old and in college. I have a very hefty student loan debt, I've been doing very well in most of my classes, but I can't kick the algebra at all. I'm not even anywhere close to college level algebra either, which is the terrible part! I have to get through two remedial algebra classes until I can even attempt college level.</p>
<p>I've tried to take algebra twice so far in the college that I'm in, each time I did fairly well for the first couple weeks, then I became extremely lost and withdrew both times.</p>
<p>I virtually have straight A's aside from Algebra and I continue to avoid math all-together. I'm currently right at 40 credits and none of them are in math. I have a transfer agreement currently set up with the University of Houston, but I'm terrified that I'm going to end up having to drop out due to algebra. I don't believe that I'm learning disabled, I just can't seem to learn the material. There are times where I'll try to study for hours upon hours and when I finally learn the system in which to use, they give me a question that's similar but completely different and I fail and fail hard.</p>
<p>How can I learn this?! Is there any kind of disability test that I could take to be exempt from this? I've even tried to go so far as to just take math for liberal arts to get past community college but because of the remedial classes I can't do anything.</p>
<p>It's very frustrating to me, I'm not a stupid person but I just can't learn this math!</p>
<p>Thank you for your time,</p>
<p>OneLoneStarTexan</p>