<p>So, I'll be taking AP Statistics next school year, but I don't know anything about statistics since my ALG II teacher skipped it.
I'm still trying to get a little preview of it by watching videos online. We will have a BrainCamp with my AP Stats class to get a head start for the course.
And also, I forgot all most of the things I've learned in my ALG classes.
So my questions is: How hard will I suffer in AP Statistics next year, and what should I do to learn all the things I have to learn before the taking the course?</p>
<p>AP statistics is not a difficult course. I don’t know why your teacher would have been planning on doing statistics in Algebra 2 since there is so little Algebra in Statistics. The only algebra you will need is being able to solve for a variable. If you can’t do that I would be more concerned for your other math courses like calculus. If you do anything over the summer then you will be far more ahead than you need to be. If your teacher is the one running the braincamp then ask if she can get through the first two chapters because all that is is mean, median, and mode type stuff.</p>
<p>You don’t need to know any background on statistics to take it. Most of it is pretty self explanatory, the only thing that you might need from Alg II is probability, but even then it’s pretty basic stuff. On the contrary, it can depend on the school, at my school the course itself was tough, but the AP test was relatively easy ( I consider myself far from a wiz at the subject, but our teacher prepared us well) It does require a large amount of work and practice though. If you have some time over the summer, maybe watch some youtube videos starting with the basics. Otherwise honestly no summer prep is necessary. Ask your teacher if you want some advice, but in my class we didn’t have summer work for AP Statistics at all.</p>
<p>Of course, algebra and calculus have lots of applications in statistics. AP Statistics doesn’t go that in-depth.</p>
<p>Most of the background you need in AP Statistics is familiarity with algebra, and basic counting/probability (you probably will have seen this in an algebra 2 course).</p>
<p>Everyone is right about it not being the hardest thing in the world, but don’t get cocky like I did. It was easy, but I screwed up a lot of things on the ap exam. </p>
<p>Trevor Packer, College Board’s head of the Advanced Placement department tweeted this today: Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor · 10h
AP Statistics free-response #5 required students to distinguish a 2-sample t test from a paired t test; 46% of students earned 0 on it.</p>
<p>So it obviously isn’t as mickey-mouse as it seems. I was on of the 46% who got zero points, since I started with the wrong test.</p>
<p>I learned absolutely nothing about statistics before coming in, and it was my easiest class. I was taking a trimester of logic and set theory at the same time as we did the probability unit, so that helped a bit, but honestly I say you’re fine.</p>
<p>@Chromium How can you even remember what you did? I just looked at the question and I don’t even remember it being on the test, haha.</p>
<p>@LAMuniv I remember thinking that I was doing the wrong test, then 2 days later there was a big discussion on here about the right test. But I got my scores back early from my college, and I apparently made a 4 on the exam. O.O</p>
<p>@Chromium congrats on your score! I’m jealous that you already know…</p>