r/Precalculus

Hello. I recently took the aleks placement test. I got a 51 the first time. I then completed all the modules and assignments they gave me in the "prep for pre calculus" course. And then I watched maybe 2 organic chemistry tutor videos on trigonometry and then took the proctored test. And then I somehow managed to get a score of 79. Which placed me into calculus.

Which is great and all. But I havent even taken pre calculus. I hardly know anything about trig and complex natural logs.

Do you have any advice on what I should do? Im already behind in my college journey do to some stupid decisions when I was a little younger. So I dont want to drop the course as this placement allows me to get a semester ahead.

If you were in my situation what would you do?

I thought about just spam watching a bunch of YouTube videos on pre calc to prepare myself but they all seem a little different in the material they consider to be pre calculus. Is there any you personally reccomend?

Or on the other side of the coin, am I just being paranoid? Is calculus 1 really all that hard? Am I gonna be fine just winging it?

i'm going to be a senior this year, i'd initially applied to take pre calc senior year but i'm reconsidering. should i take ap statistics instead? i'm not exceptionally strong at math (some As, mostly Bs, two Cs last year in junior year algebra 2 w/trig) and am planning on applying for pre-med tracks at universities soon. i could also ask to take both classes.

Man, right now I'm in my 4th semester of a mechanical engineering degree. I love solving long calculus problems and reading about the masters who created the formulas I use, but I have a funny difficulty remembering basic, fundamental math rules. Like, a few minutes ago, I was searching on YouTube how to do fraction subtraction because I simply couldn't remember how to do it without a calculator, hahaha. Sometimes I feel like my brain goes full speed recording new, interesting info while erasing the old stuff in an exponential way. Just curious if this situation applies to any of you too.

so basically i took an online course for algebra 2 over the summer, but the thing is i most definitely did not learn enough, like my skills especially in logarithms, factoring and trig functions are absolute trash. I basically just did the khan course for it and now i am terrified that I will be really behind for precalc help what do i do!? resources and just like the most important algebra 2 topics for precalc would be helpful!!

So I'm taking a placement test at this new school I'm going to for precalc and I need to score well enough on it so that they put me in AP Calc AB (for college purposes) and I want to review but my precalc course ended like 3 weeks ago...

Does anybody know of any websites with question banks that cover all of precalc? Ones with difficult questions that actually make you think would be helpful

hello! im currently a rising senior in high school. i was doing algebra 2 all of junior year, but i wanted to skip ahead to calculus in my senior year, so i decided to do precalc over the summer. unfortunately, i didnt anticipate how packed my summer schedule would be when i decided to do this. i have come home everyday exhausted from volunteering, doing summer jobs, and interning. i havent indulged in any of my hobbies in weeks. i have barely started my summer homework.

... which has led me to this situation. i did great in algebra 2! it was a lot to memorize but i really enjoyed it and i had an A+ in the class all year around. because id say i have a solid algebra 2 foundation, is it possible for me to be able to study precalc in 10 days? if a put in hours of work everyday?

on the first day of school ill get an entrance exam where i will need to score a minimum of 85/100 to get into the calculus class. i had 1000 mandatory precalc math problems to do over the summer. will i be able to do it all or am i cooked?