<p>OKay, I'm debating between should I do Precalcus class during the summer. I already took it this year and I end up with a bad grade. I wanted to start my CCC with a Calculus on Fall session. You think it's a good idea to take it during summer to review and all?</p>
<p>same exact situation as you, did you take the placement test to see if you are eligible for calc without taking preCalc? even though i did bad i know this stuff pretty good (if i wanted to i could have had straight a's but felt no need...i know that if i took precalc in summer over it would be easy...but are you aiming for an a? reconsider about that</p>
<p>I got in Calculus, but I wanted for an A as well. Plus I don't want to go to Calculus knowing not much. Better be prepared for it through.</p>
<p>oh hey was the test easy to get into calculus since you did bad in pre calc?</p>
<p>i mean is it the basics or is it things your learning now?</p>
<p>i dono but if i get in i wont retake it ill just study my ass off and im sure ill be fine</p>
<p>Taking Calc my senior year in high school next year and even if I pass the AP exam I'll more than likely take Calc 1 in CC just to be extra prepared. I dunno, I'm just super careful not to jump into Calc 2 without fully grasping Calc 1.</p>
<p>precalc is just algebra review and trig functions. If you feel good about those, you can move on to calc</p>
<p>well I found precal easy, but is there more into it?</p>
<p>im not worried because i feel that regardless of how much pre calc i know calc will be new and i can learn it without fully knowing precalc</p>
<p>Which leads me to believe that pre-calc isn't exactly an accurate name for the class. My friend who is a math wiz tells me there's only really two things that carry into calc from pre-calc which is the unit circle and something else I forgot.</p>
<p>If you're comfortable with algebra and your trig identities (at least the basic ones, you don't need to memorize the half angle formulas or anything), you'll be fine.</p>
<p>And aren't they most likely to review over that stuff in calc anyway? So when they do, just study over that stuff. I think the jump from calc 1 to calc 2 is a lot bigger than from pre-calc to calc.</p>
<p>I'm taking calc 1 this semester, so I have no idea what the jump to calc 2 is like. It's really the first math class where I find myself going "well, wow. that's pretty clever/useful/neat/awesome" which is saying something considering it's an 8am class and I feel like death every time I wake up that early.</p>
<p>mattn, is this your first year in CC? What's your major?</p>
<p>2nd/last year. My major's Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, but I'm going to UCLA for my alternate major English (which I'm changing to anthropology). So, anthropology, final answer. </p>
<p>I left high school two years early and put off math a semester little, so that's why I'm on a weird pace.</p>
<p>Calc 1 is easy. PreCalc was harder than Calc 1, i took the PreCalc that was 6 units so it was Trig with PreCalc- anyways, Calc 1 is easy.</p>
<p>I got a 98 in Calc 1- highest in the class. The jump from Calc 1 to Calc 2 is is like jumping across the grand canyon.</p>
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<p>You took the CHSPE right?</p>
<p>Yep (10char)</p>
<p>oo i took that too lol </p>
<p>i took it in 2001- it was SUCH a joke. Dont know if they made it any harder nowdays, i sure hope so.</p>
<p>Precalc gives you techniques that you need to deal with all sorts of things in calc 1 and beyond - mostly beyond. differential equations (basically calc 4) is where EVERYTHING from the past comes back to haunt you: precalc, trig, calc 1, 2, 3... if you are just going to take calc 1 and 2 then you will have no problem getting by without a good mathematics foundation, but if you plan to progress further into multivariable calc. and diff. eq. then its a good idea to remember all the old stuff, or you will be forced to learn it again as you go along</p>
<p>I took it in 2006. It was still painfully easy then. I don't know how they get away with calling that a high school equivalency, but hey, it got me out.</p>