<p>I have ap calc ab on my schedule for next year(11th) and I'm not sure I'll have difficulties because I'm coming from Trig honors instead of precalc honors. Did anyone else do the same and if so how well did they do in the class. I'm getting a tutor for the remaining summer so that I'm not behind when I start.</p>
<p>trig honors is fine. You will only be behind on limits and then maybe if the pre calc class is really good they will have covered basic idea of a derivative and integration. Just use khanacademy to cover anything you didn’t learn, please do not waste your parents’ money on a tutor.</p>
<p>Alright thanks!</p>
<p>In my school students take honors trig before AP Calc AB! I did the same and my grade was slightly higher in calc than in trig and I scored a 5 on the exam. My top two suggestions are PatrickJMT and GetaFive youtube videos. I used them both as tools to prep for the exam and as extra explanation on material that I didn’t understand… It’s much cheaper than a tutor. :)</p>
<p>Thanks again, I’ll check them out! </p>
<p>You’ll be fine. I’m taking into the fact that you probably took Algebra 2. You’ll be fine skipping Precalc, especially for Calculus AB. Precalculus can cover some things like polar coordinates that show up in BC. If you’re taking honors math with an 85+ then don’t stress. Good luck.</p>
<p>Actually, thinking about it, AB should review precal for maybe 2 weeks. They’ll go over all the trig you need to know. Sometimes trig classes teach things that aren’t needed for calculus. It’s a Trigonometry class I mean, not a ‘Trig for Calculus’ class.</p>
<p>The standard track at my high school was pre-calculus to AP Calculus. I wanted to skip a year ahead in math, so I took a trigonometry course at the local community college in lieu of pre-calculus. I actually found that a class focused solely on trig was a much better preparatory course for calculus than pre-calculus was, which only focused partially on trig.</p>
<p>I know this is an old thread, I’m just putting my experiences on this out there for anybody with similar concerns. I’m in AB, we reviewed Pre Calc for 2 days then started limits. Limits lasted for 2 weeks then we started derivatives and related rates stuff towards the end of Chapter 2. We are almost done with Chapter 3 which is stuff like Derivative tests and extrema and we just started something called optimization. I know the next chapter we do is integrals. It seems like a lot of schools I hear about on hear teach math a lot differently than mine.</p>
<p>In Algebra 2 we only did unit circle at the very end of the year.</p>
<p>There isn’t actually a course called trig, Pretty much the whole 2nd Semester of Pre Calc is trig.</p>
<p>So far in AB, the only trig you really need to know is the unit circle, and trig identities. Plus when we did related rates it helped to know volume and area formulas, similar triangles, so-cah-toah (Or however its spelled) and basics learned in geometry. But I think for AB (Probably not BC since I hear Polar Coordinates is in BC) being good at Algebra is probably the most important thing. Granted we are only on Chapter 3 of 7 of AB curriculum right now, but unless Integrals is much more trig involved than derivatives are (which they could be I guess) then I don’t think knowing more than the unit circle and trig identities is that important. (If you are taking AB)</p>
<p>I went from alg. 2 to calculus senior year</p>
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<p>Plenty of people at my school do. But them again we count trig and precal as the same class. </p>