<p>What classes should I take in my junior year? AP Stats or should I take Pre-Calculus and AP Calculus.</p>
<p>Your school would let you take Pre-Calc and AP Calc at the same time? That doesn’t seem to make much sense.
ETA: I’m currently a junior and I’m taking PreCalc and AP Stats this year. Next year I’m taking AP Calc.</p>
<p>I took advanced pre calc as a junior and I am now taking ap stat and ap calc bc as a senior</p>
<p>It depends on what your own intellectual interests are, as well as your long-term academic needs and possible career goals.</p>
<p>Could you explain in more detail about why you’re asking this question? Not trying to be rude, I just want a gauge of things like, if you like math, if you’re thinking about a math or science career, what your school requires for graduation, your current performance in math, etc. etc. Give a better sense of where you’re coming from, if you don’t mind.</p>
<p>Pre-Calc followed by Calc, unless you know 100% for sure that you will never want to go to a school that requires calc to get the degree you want. Once you get off the calculus train, it is hard to hop back on.</p>
<p>I had a B in the class and was doing allright, until i got a 47% on my last paper, dropping me to a C. I work very hard in the class, but teacher is a very hard grader. She says that the class will get harder next semester. I’m a junior and i’ve had a 3.93 until this year, with a C in AP english, a B+ in AP science in honors math, and A’s in all the rest. I want to get into a high tier college, but i’m afraid this english grade will destroy everything. What do I do?</p>
<p>^ The guidance that seems reasonable to me is that if you can’t get at least a B in an AP class, you’re better off dropping down to the next level - that an A or B in a non-AP looks better than a C in an AP.</p>
<p>Sorry, let me clarify that, i would take Pre-Calc my first semester than I would take AP Calculus in the second semester. I want to know this is because i want to know which class will help me on the SAT/ACT more. I’ve heard some peoe say that there is a lot of Stats on the SAT, but i’ve also heard that there is a lot of Calculus too.</p>
<p>Take pre-calc as a junior and AP calc as a senior, it will be more useful in the long run.</p>
<p>Calculus…on the SAT?</p>
<p>skip pre-calc and Calc AB, then BC as senior. I took AP STAT as soph, then pre-calc and now calc BC. stat teach ok, pre-calc (the class thought ourselves), had to do some catch-up in the beginning of BC.</p>
<p>Precalc—> Calc. Silly.</p>
<p>@Qazhby: All the math skills you need for the SAT Reasoning Test were learned prior to junior year (algebra I, geometry, some algebra II). It’s all very basic material. So if you’ve finished Algebra II, then the math courses you take after won’t help or hurt your SAT score.</p>
<p>However, Precal is definitely necessary for the Math II Subject Test.</p>
<p>My school has block scheduling, so you can take all of pre-calc the first semester and all of calc the second semester. It’s the exact same thing as taking them two different years, except it’s better because you remember more.</p>
<p>So, what should I take? Haha</p>
<p>I would take AP Stats and Pre-Calculus Junior year if that possible.</p>
<p>Eh, i just feel like if i do that then over the summer i would forget what I learned in Pre-Calc, so then i wouldn’t do so good in AP my senior year.</p>
<p>“i would forget what I learned in Pre-Calc”</p>
<p>Which would mean you probably didn’t really learn it.
But I haven’t used most of my pre-calc stuff in calculus, at least not yet. Just the simple conceptual stuff - I’ve never had to know any random trig identity.</p>