I am a post-bacc student pursuing the prereqs to pharm school. I am wondering what would be the best class to take in order to prepare for calculus. College algebra? Trig? The last "real" math class I had was pre-cal and that was 12 years ago. I was an A/B math student back in the day... Any recommendations are appreciated.
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Calculus prereq
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melhos said:
I would probably take precalculus since it contains algebra and trig. Hopefully, you'll be able to recall the algebra and trig fundamentals well enough to do well in precalc.
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PRECALC all the way. I took it as a prereq. for my calculus class and it helped so much!
My last algebra class was in 1972 (algebra II in high school). When I decided to get my biology degree in 2001, I took a placement test. I missed some algebra problems and didn't know any trig. They wanted to place me in college algebra. When I talked to the head of the biology department, he okayed me to take pre-calculus. This allowed me to brush up on my algebra and learn trig. My pre-calc class was 90% trig, but you needed algebra to solve problems. In fact, my school didn't offer a course called trigonometry, they just had pre-calc. Maybe it really was a trig course in disguise.
