How challenging is honors pre-calc?

<p>Algebra 2 honors was a joke, I had the teacher who couldn't teach well. I got low A's both semesters though but honestly her "practice tests" were the reason why. My homework was always BS. No one would understand those assignments. And I don't think I learned anything from that class, trigonometry which is what we learned last, yeah... I bombed that test. It was so hard I didn't get it. (The whole identities crap with the sin cos tan cos cot sec alpha x blah bs)</p>

<p>I honestly was better at math when I was a freshman. I had the best teacher ever and his tests were tough but I did well in his class second semester. At first I struggled but I got a tutor which helped a lot. But I was a freshman, I had less rigorous classes, I had the time to study.</p>

<p>I hear the teacher for pre-calc honors is better than the horrible one I had this year, but then I hear he's also not that good at teaching from the people who didn't have my teacher. </p>

<p>My math skills can be advanced if I get help, I use to be better at math but I went downhill this year. So will I struggle? Especially if I'm not good at trig and struggled with the identities stuff?</p>

<p>Also, I'm not going to be taking AP chem, because honors chem would take me hours of practicing problems which would hold me back with math. Decided to go with ap bio instead yayy</p>

<p>Precalculus will be different at every school, and it can be different with every teacher. At my school, I had a teacher who didn’t assign any homework and made the class pretty easy while still teaching us all the material. Other people tell me that precalculus is the hardest math class in the school, worse than AP calc, and that they get tons of homework. So it really depends on the teacher. Also, trig identities are very important to precalculus, so you will have to get good with those.</p>

<p>The way I see it, If you’re were great at AlgII, you’ll do even better in Precal. Although its more in depth, you have alot of the essential skills from AlgII so it’s pretty much just expanding your trig knowledge and stuff</p>

<p>Pre-Calc is mainly trig so if you are good with that, then you will be really good at precalc</p>

<p>Tl;dr read title.
Take the funniest joke you’ve heard. That’s how easy it is. </p>

<p>I took IB Math SL Acc. Yr. 1 (Pre-Calculus) this year. I’d say my teacher was pretty good but went fast sometimes. I thought it was pretty easy, but obviously it depends on your teacher. If you want, I can provide you resources.</p>

<p>it’s quite stupid to ask strangers to rate something entirely school-specific in a school that none of us attend</p>

<p>Material-wise, pre-calc. shouldn’t be too terrible, unless you are not a trigonometry person. But it’s really all up to what teacher you have. I took it sophomore year of high school and my teacher was comprehensive, but he enjoyed putting hard questions on our tests that required us to be creative and apply the information versus just spitting back the method he taught us.</p>

<p>It depends on your school. For me at my school, Pre Calc Honors was so much harder than ALG II Honors. Especially 2nd Semester. We got like 2 hours of homework every night.</p>