<p>I'm planning on taking math 2 some time in the future and I'd like to know your input on how to prepare for that. This coming year I'll be taking pre-calc, so I'll wait until I finish that course (or should I wait until after Calc BC?) to take math 2. Which books in your opinion are the best to prepare from? And also, should I skim a math 1 book as well?</p>
<p>Take the exam after pre-calc. The Math II exam focuses on Alg. II and pre-calc. The only calculus concept you’ll need on the Math II exam is limits. Don’t wait until after BC because then your pre-calc knowledge might not be fresh.</p>
<p>Math II is mainly algebra, and it requires very little pre-calc. The only pre-calc you need to know is how to work with radians. Limits on the the test is very simple, and you don’t need calc at all to solve them. Like they’ll ask you “what is the limit as x approaches 1 in (x/4)^x?” and all you need to do is plug x in to get 1/4. A lot of it’s probability, functions, inequalities, and equation stuff that you learn in algebra 2.</p>
<p>I never saw a limits problem on Math II, but they should be very simple (e.g. no L’Hopital’s rule involved). They might ask a basic statistics question, e.g. construct a linear or quadratic regression and use it to compute something…</p>