<p>I need to take Math II in October because it is required by some of the schools I would like to apply to. Only problem is that I have not taken precalculus. I have had a flat 100 average in Honors Algebra I, Honors Geometry, and Honors Algebra II and Trigonometry. My school does not offer electives and these classes were what the school makes you take. I will also need to teach myself how to use the graphing calculator because it is not allowed until senior year. Will I be able to teach myself enough precalculus over the summer to score well on the test? If so, any suggestions on how to do it (books, strategies, etc.)?</p>
<p>Take an online course for precalc maybe?</p>
<p>@swag87 do you know of any good ones?</p>
<p>VHS, Keystone, Just a Simple Google Search should do it.</p>
<p>There isn’t a whole lot of new material in pre-calculus (perhaps some stuff on matrices, trig, logs, which you probably covered in Alg. 2), and if you are doing well in algebra and geometry, you probably don’t need to spend money on an online course.</p>
<p>Khan Academy is actually pretty good If you need to start from the basics of any topics</p>
<p>@MITer94 @ETonly thanks for the advice!</p>
<p>You need to know how far in depth you need to go. Precalculus means different things according to different instructors; heck even within our own school different precalculus teachers have different syllabi for it. I’d use a book like Schaum’s Outline of Precalculus, and also you can try educator.com, its precalculus course is pretty in-depth.</p>
<p>@Mathematical thanks, I’ll check it out!</p>
<p>@dreamchaser50 You should also check out PatrickJMT and maybe ProfRobBob on Youtube. I know for sure PatrickJMT is really good.</p>
<p>@Animefan1998 thanks, I’ll look them up!</p>
<p>I suggest you take a Math II pretest to figure out what it covers that you don’t know yet. My son took Math II after Alg2/Trig and did well. His Alg2/Trig course covered logs and trig including unit circle and identities pretty well. I don’t know how much there is on the test related to vectors, matrices, series, and sums. He had seen a lot of those in physics (vectors), programming on his own (matrices), and a math circle (series and sums). So, you might not be as far from ready as you think.</p>
<p>@Ynotgo thanks for the encouragement! I definitely have a decently sized portion of the test to learn.</p>