<p>So I'm just wondering if anybody else finds AP Calculus way easier than Pre Calc Honors. I have the same teacher again this year as I did for Pre Calc Honors (as did everybody who took Honors) and only like 2-3 people got an A in the class and a lot of people got C's and D's (I got a B personally) 2nd semester of Pre Calc Honors. Now in AP Calc we just had a test on Derivatives and Related Rates and a lot of the class got a 9 on the two released FRQ's that were on the test. I find Calculus to be extremely easy while I think Pre Calc Honors was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. Does anybody else have it like this?</p>
<p>Honors PreCalc is often harder than ABCalc, but easier than BCCalc. It’s the pace at which the material flows. </p>
<p>Well, BC Calc might be easier when I take it Senior year after AB because I will know most of the material anyways. At least I hope. Pre Calc Honors was like childbirth when it came to the difficulty level. For Polar Curves and Coordinates I spent like 10 hours studying the day before the test and still bombed it. And don’t even get me started on how horrible Static equilibriums were, I almost never cry but those made me cry.</p>
<p>AB Calculus is mostly learning derivative/integration rules and some applications, not too difficult. If you want a much more rigorous introduction, take real analysis.</p>
<p>No, I’m good I’m not math genius by any means. AP Calculus (AB) is the highest math class offered at my high school anyways. AP Calc BC is an independent study that you do after AB if you took AB Junior year. AP Calculus AB is a ton of homework (so was Pre Calc Honors though) probably like 1.5-2 hours a night.</p>
<p>It’s because of what classicrockerdad said. You learn about ten chapters worth of material in pre calc while you’re only learning 5 chapters in AP calc AB.</p>
<p>Really? My teacher said we are doing 7 chapters. We do an 8th chapter after the AP Test which is the beginning of the BC stuff. We have the Larson and Edwards 9th edition if that changes anything. And we did 13 chapters in pre calc</p>
<p>Semester 1 (Kind of hard, but not too bad)
Chapter 1 was like a review chapter of Algebra II topics
Chapter 2 was intro to functions and piece wise
Chapter 3 was primary and secondary equation functions and applications
Chapter 4 was polynomial functions
Chapter 5 was logarithmic functions
Chapter 6 was trigonometric functions</p>
<p>Semester 2 (The hardest semester of my life, got a C or worse on most of these tests)</p>
<p>Chapter 7 Analytical trigonometry (Trig Identities and Trig Equations, Establishing Identity proofs were really hard)
Chapter 8 Applications of Geometry and Trig (Law of Sin, Cos, etc, harmonic motion)
Chapter 9 Polar Coordinates (The worst freaking chapter of my life, so many things in it like all the shapes, the parametric equations, static equilibrium)
Chapter 10 Rotation of Conics (Another really hard chapter, had polar rotations of conics which were also really hard)
Chapter 11 Linear Algebra (Wasn’t that hard until the test when he gave us a partial fraction decomposition starting with an exponent that was like x^6)
Chapter 12 Numerical Sequences (Not that hard, but that stuff has always been a weakness so it was hard for me specifically but not hard in general, the proofs were killer though)
Chapter 13 Intro to Calculus (Limits, Derivatives) Saved my grade because I got 100% on this test.</p>
<p>Honors PreCalc is known to be the hardest class in my entire school. Almost all of us hovered in the high 80s. Meanwhile, all of us thought Calc AB was a cakewalk and got 5s on the test - so we’re not dumb, the class was just that hard.</p>