<p>Hey guys,
I'm going to tell you right now that I am not by any stretch of the imagination a "math person". I am a junior in honors calculus with an "easy" teacher and I'm struggling. I have a good grade now due to homework and test corrections, but I am so bad at the actual math. I have a tutor and I study for hours and still struggle on the tests. I know I will need to take a calculus class in college for my major (general biology), so I'm wondering, should I take AP calculus next year and struggle then, or should I take honors statistics next year, and grapple with college calculus?
Any help is much appreciated.</p>
<p>Take stats, if your struggle with calc tests you will probably struggle with the AP calc test and end up getting a low score/having to take calc in college anyway.</p>
<p>Good point, and thank you for responding, but do you think just experiencing the rigor of the class itself will help me have an easier time when I take calc in college? I mean in college, it would technically be my second time taking that level calc class.</p>
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<p>So just to make sure, honors calc/stats is not AP level? So you are taking a year of calculus but no AP test? And the honors stats you might take is not AP level either?</p>
<p>Yes, trying AP Calc, even if you do poorly, will help you in college calc because it won’t be completely new like it is to most people. Stats will be no help for calc, though I would think you would need some sort of stats class for biology, depending on which kind of biology you do. I recommend calc if it’s AP calc versus non-AP stats, personally, though if you have a bio class you want to take or something you could do that instead too.</p>
<p>I would take the AP test, but I know there is no way I would get more than a 3 even on a good day. Next year my options are AP calc ab or honors stats (AP stats will not be offered)</p>