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I am not blaming my college, I am blaming the high school. It must not be all me though if I talked to almost all the kids from my AP calc class, and every single one got a C,D in math. I am sure that I am to blame partway, sure(ill buy it), but my high school was a HUUUGE factor, and so was having money to buy books to prepare myself(hint: my parents didnt care(not educationally inclined), and I came from an area with zero jobs, in the boondocks). You probably aren’t going to understand because you probably(?) didnt go to school in one of the worst schools in the state.</p>
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Yeah, I bought these too. I have the trigonometry workbook for dummies, trig for dummies, calc for dummies, and calc workbook for dummies. I found that the calc wasnt advanced enough(?) for the lectures though…</p>
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I wish I knew about said club. I would certainly join it in a heartbeat.</p>
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I did this for math last year, and I got like a 40% on the test anyway because of the trig…, I think I could just have had a bad tutor or crappy with trig. It wasnt the calc material, I learned that 3 times. It was probably also a time issue(definitely- I have accomodations for that now…).</p>
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Yeah I did this, and the teacher fell asleep while I was talking to him(sitting up) during office hours. He was almost zero help(though a nice guy). The same teacher is teaching it this year, but there is one teacher with one of the other sections(its a hard guy). I am still on the waitlist to take it with him instead…, #2, so outlook is optimistic. I thought maybe I would have more luck.</p>
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<p>No *<strong><em>, Im *</em></strong>ed my school doesnt offer that. I wanted to do it at community college over the summer, but I didnt have the money… 
Kids and people like teachers dont want to teach me precalc and it ****es me off… ive been trying to go through the books- I dont know what im missing. I know all of the triangle soh-cah-toa stuff, but everything involving logs loses me or doesnt keep in my head(I went over it like 4 times, but sitting here right now, i dont remember any of it at all… and i remember going over it!). I just learned radians. Erh, Im trying to find the part that gives me practice manipulating functions with trig in it… or manipulating algebra with trig in it…</p>
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No one else learned it either. Mostly everyone got 1s. One person got a 2 though, and I got a 3(I was the only one to pass in a few years…). How I passed- the answer choices have a certain pattern, so you can make an educated guess each time even if you dont know it, and I tried really hard to understand the calc material and asked a lot of questions in class, and other people didnt.</p>
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<p>Well, we all had the same teacher 3 years in a row. (algebra3/trig , calc , AP calc). Before you say about the class that had trig in the title, we didnt get to it because the teacher got off topic, so the stuff never got learned. We briefly went over soh-cah-toa at the end of the year, so I know that stuff. Its everything else. The teacher knew this and simply avoiding assigning trig problems to the class(the class was 5 people). We also almost never got homework… We learned the calc concepts, but just skipped over everything trig related. Something makes me think the teacher just didnt like it or know it very well. The book was not an AP book- the school was poor. It was the same book as my regular calc class.</p>
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<p>But as a side note- I dont think im stupid or lazy. I really did give it my all(I didnt sleep!-). This is why I am frustrated. I truly enjoy engineering(not for the money, at all), and want to stick with it. I tried really hard and just failed any way. I thought that I thought of everything. I went to office hours and tutoring, but i just messed up anyway. Thats where I am running into problems. How do I make this time different?</p>