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Full story is kinda TL;DR. To put it short, was a horrible student in high school, not SDN standards of horrible, but actually horrible. Now I'm a very new freshman at a CC. Literally didn't even apply to school until today and my late track classes start later this month.
Somehow I managed to test into pre-calculus despite doing poorly in high school/being years out of a math class/not studying for placement testing at all... I know how important it is to do well in your classes (BCPM especially) and I'm worried that my weak background in algebra will impede my ability to do well in pre-calc/calc + chem and physics.
Would I be okay taking pre-calc while I concurrently self-study algebra or would I be better off taking algebra as a refresher this semester and pre-calc next semester?
Guh, I don't remember trig beyond SOH CAH TOA either. Adding that to the list immediately. I've been using Khan along with some old textbooks actually! Hopefully that's enough.
That's why you become a non-traditional student. Take stats instead of calc, however, calc wouldn't hurt. If you do well in it at least. Especially if you do poorly in it in a CC then I would get out of that asap. But I'm not sure how CC's work.Full story is kinda TL;DR. To put it short, was a horrible student in high school, not SDN standards of horrible, but actually horrible. Now I'm a very new freshman at a CC. Literally didn't even apply to school until today and my late track classes start later this month.
Somehow I managed to test into pre-calculus despite doing poorly in high school/being years out of a math class/not studying for placement testing at all... I know how important it is to do well in your classes (BCPM especially) and I'm worried that my weak background in algebra will impede my ability to do well in pre-calc/calc + chem and physics.
Would I be okay taking pre-calc while I concurrently self-study algebra or would I be better off taking algebra as a refresher this semester and pre-calc next semester?