So I skipped precalc and am not doing so great in College calc (teacher assumed we knew all of precalc, and everyone in class except for me and one other student, who she considered kicking out of the class for not having precalc.
She doesn’t know I never took precalc, because I didn’t want to be booted from the class, but needless to say I did poorly on first exam and not great on following exam, but I understand the material now.
This is a problem because the class only accounts for exams on the class grade, and only assigns around 6-8 exams for the entire course. ( I failed the first test)
My question is, should I transfer to another class, like AP statistics, where I would have a full year, as opposed to half year course??
Its frustrating because I understand Calculus now but I think its too late to salvage my grade and am worried it will shatter GPA.
I want to go into Computer Science, which I am taking AP computer science right now.
Which would be better to take, transfer to AP stats and get a good grade to get into a college, or continue and pass with poor grade in calculus??
A few questions:
–Why did you take calc without pre-calc? How did your school allow this? Andy why don’t you tell the teacher?
–Can you switch into AP Stat at this late date? You would have missed a good bit of the class already. Do you have a plan to make up the missed work?
–Have you sent in applications to colleges listing calculus? If so you will have to inform each school that you dropped the class or risk having an acceptance rescinded.
I wanted to get Calculus under my belt before college, but hadn’t been put into precalc the year before and the class filled up, my school guidance councilor put me in Calc. I have not yet submitted apps, which is why this needs to be resolved soon, I want to take Calc but I fail to see how my average would rise to anything decent by end of class
I didnt tell my teacher I had not taken precalc because she threatened to kick another student out of the class because he had not taken precalc.
Part of the problem is in my district, when NY Common core was implemented, the whole curriculum after 8th grade (Alg 1) was a mess.
Also as an addendum, she does not like me either, she told me that on the test my writing looked like “mad science” and she thought it looked disorganized, I answer the HW correctly now and answer questions in class, she just doesn’t provide ample opportunity for me to repair my grade, at least, in my opinion.
Seems like if you switch courses, you should switch to precalculus so that you will be ready for calculus in college. Otherwise, you will have to take precalculus as a remedial course in college before taking calculus that will be required for the CS major.
the other option, albeit a little off the rails, is to beg councilor to put me in AP Calc AB, I understand material, its simply the fact that the course isn’t long enough for my grade to be fixed, whereas if I switch it would be full year course.