<p>It really depends on your mathematic ability. Personally, Pre-Calc has been the easiest class I have taken in a long while, but I really enjoy math and am good at it. The most important thing you need in order to do well in this course, in my opinion, is algebra.</p>
<p>At my school people skip it and go straight to Calculus and my school is probably way less rigorous on average than the schools people here go to.</p>
<p>I found pre-calc easy, but trig difficult (not sure if trig is usually considered a subtopic of pre-calc, but they are separate in my school.)</p>
<p>I did better than most people in my class, but I’ve always done well in math, so it depends. Trigonometry was similar to geometry to me- I scored adequately in both of them, but didn’t excel as I did in algebra classes (straight 100s.) If you are a geometry person rather than an algebra person, you’ll probably do quite well.</p>
<p>Pre-calculus, though- functions, logarithms, etc. was a breeze.</p>
<p>Either way, don’t worry about it. It’s not impossible, and you can always do outside work to ensure that you fully grasp the concepts.</p>
<p>^I see what you mean, I always liked Geometry better.</p>
<p>For some odd reason, people in my school tend to get B+'s in pre-calc and manage to get A’s in AP Calc AB and 4/5 on the AP test. So, grade-wise it depends on your teachers.</p>
<p>So what this thread is telling me that the math course progressively get easier after Geometry? So if I got a B (final grade in Geo) and then an A (final grade in Alg. 2), Pre-cal might be a breeze for me?</p>
<p>Not necessarily. It depends on the person, what topics are covered, and the teacher.</p>
<p>i think the concepts are easy, but i had a former college professor as a teacher since i was in honors college precalc for credits and she made the tests IMPOSSIBLE. i am good at math and have always had 97+ but this quarter i will be lucky if i get a 91. plus the AMC high scorer in my class also has like a 90 so yeah my class was reallly difficult. but if you have a decent teacher you should be fine</p>
<p>The concept is prettty easy, even though I received my first B in that class hah. But only because precal was different from any other math class I took, esp the trigonometry stuff. But honestly if you received an 82% in Alg. II Idk man… </p>
<p>Because I got 96% in Alg II but 89% in precal but lucky one of my 89% was an 89.8% so my teacher rounded!</p>
<p>^ Thanks… -.- </p>
<p>Lets just say I’m going to fail that class lol.</p>
<p>I’m self-studying precalc this summer and would say that it’s not too bad, since many of the topics were covered in Algebra 2 (polynomials, logarithms, conics, sequences/series) and Geometry (basic trig). I found many topics in precalc fairly easy, and a lot of the rules in the polynomial topic are based on common sense (as in, if you think about it, it makes sense). I would advise you to get an intuition of how everything works (Khan Academy helped me so much with this) instead of just memorizing things that you’ll forget after taking the class, especially trig identities (know how they’re derived from each other). </p>
<p>In short, math builds on top of topics previously learned, so if you’re confident that you have a decent Algebra 2 background, it shouldn’t be terrible. If not, maybe review some of it over the summer and study ahead a little in precalc :)</p>
<p>I cool to see my thread again lol. Thanks for the advice Elf :)</p>
<p>I’m getting the same teacher I had for Algebra 2 for Pre cal. But since I might change schools, I don’t know. My Algebra 2 teacher was SCARY. His tests are SO tricky and about 80% of the class for a grade was on tests, so homework didn’t help much. And his class was so boring! You could hear the other teacher in the other room talk with clarity. But I still managed an A for both semesters. It really depends on your teacher to determine whether pre-calc is easy or not.</p>
<p>In my Algebra II class no one could get an A on a test. The test average was like a 70% My teacher made it so hard for me to learn Algebra II. Thanks goodness he doesn’t teach Pre-Calculus.</p>
<p>I think Pre-Calculus is either something you hate or love, or that’s what it seemed like in my class. Personally, I found it kinda fun and way more interesting than my Algebra and Geometry classes :).</p>
<p>^ Math, being, FUN~!?!? I actually liked my geometry class because we colored things lol</p>
<p>I though Pre-Calc was the easiest math class I’ve taken so far. It combines trig and Algebra II with stuff from geometry, so it’s more building on stuff you already know rather than learning completely new concepts. My class seemed incredibly easy to me, but I do know several juniors who averaged a B- and some seniors with senioritis that had a C average. I maintained an A+ the whole year with minimal effort.</p>
<p>I’m almost done with my Precalc jumper course my school’s offering. I dont know if its supposed to be this easy, but my teacher makes it really easy to understand so that the harder problems don’t seem so hard. I think if you had a good grasp in Algebra II Precalc really is easy. The concepts itself won’t kill you. And most of the problem solving is basically application of concepts in Algebra II. The only difference is its kinda like “Algebra 2 1/2”. It goes just a little step further, I think, in terms of the graphs and the identities. Oh trig functions…</p>
<p>I took Pre-Calc last year (my sophomore year). It was such a joke; 85% of it was just a review of Algebra 2, and the rest was really simple. I think I spent more time doing my other classes’ homework than actually doing math in that class. Trigonometric identities were pretty much the only part of that class that was even remotely challenging. They were a ton of fun, too.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>Yeah. When I asked someone what math class he/she is taking, that person says, “Hey, I’m taking pre-cal.”</p>
<p>The word “Pre-Cal” sounds so cool, so that made my expectations so high for taking this course. It sounds so exciting! i mean think about, “Hey, I’m taking pre cal!” instead of the usual, “Hey, i’m taking Calculus.” ← doesn’t sound as interesting</p>