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- AP Precalculus. It’s the talk of the century. People are saying its a joke, others are saying its way too easy. The real answer is: AP Precalculus is a joke.
Out of the over 200,000 students taking AP Precalculus, 175,000 took the exam, with 75% of them scoring a 3 or higher. A 75% passing rate on an AP exam is already high, and is actually the second highest pass rate among AP math exams, right behind AP Calculus BC with an 80% passing rate. Now the thing about AP Calculus BC is that the threshold for that class is already high, with most of the people taking that class being geniuses. But the thing about AP Precalculus is that not everybody in that class are geniuses. What does that say about the exam?
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What do you guys think about AP Precalculus?
It's goofy
I got a 4, but unfortunately our teacher was teaching precalc for the first time, and also absent almost everyday towards the end of the year. But the calculator section really tripped us up since our teacher never taught us how to be efficient with it or calculator questions to practice.
Yep, that also happened at my school. The class was pretty much self-taught, because the teachers we're given little material to teach it and they didn't know how. I can also agree with the calculator section being hard 😂
AP addition and subtraction when?
Lol
Imagine an AP arithmetic class where you just added, multiplied, subtracted, and divided big numbers by hand
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I took AP precal last year and I got a 5. I took algebra 2 pre AP the year before that and I found that algebra 2 was much harder than AP precal and AP precal was literally everything in alg 2 except trig and easier. I am now in calc bc and getting cooked
Yep, AP Precal doesn't prepare students for AP Calculus BC and it's just a re-run of Algebra 2. 😔
From what I heard, the AP Precalculus course was taught by the AP Calculus BC teach as well at a school I went to. She prepared each student very well, with a 100% passing rate in her 5 bells she taught it. However, there was extreme rigor in the course. She purposely added calculus concepts into the notes for each unit to prepare the students for Calculus AB and BC. That way, when it came time for the exam, each student already knew how to apply the calculus concepts as well, like finding a secent line.
Along with that, I believe that the course prepares students well for future math classes. Many students know going into the course that they will be taking a Calculus course in the future, which is why they are taking the course. Providing the foundations of difficult concepts and applications, and simplifying them into more comprehensible units allows students to take the fundamental math study skills they have learned, and use it for the future.
Harvard doesn’t accept any AP credit at all. I know someone who is going there. They want you to take a bunch of AP classes to get into the school, but they don’t give you college credit for any of them. I think this is the same at a bunch of other top colleges
the thing is ap precalc is standardized while normal/honors precalc isnt. since non-ap precalc varies a lot from school to school it can be hard going from it to ap calc or college level math so ap precalc would help mitigate that issue
AP Precalculus has the potential for alot. Precalculus is a course that many colleges have and sometimes perquisites calculus (even if you took it already as credit form). Although my school doesn't offer AP they offer DC/DE precal and from what I heard its the hardest course in the school. I feel like it should be as difficult to the point of many college (800-1400) take the credit compared to the only 400 that currently do. Good video. I also never heard of precal AB/BC.
@@studded8054 Yeah I totally agree. Precalculus honors I heard had more rigor and difficulty before it was replaced with AP Precalculus. It is definitely useful but I think the college board is making it easier than it should be. And most people haven’t heard of the AB/BC because it’s new this year. But yeah it’s different across schools.
@@mathvise My school had up to calc 3 and precalc DE was the hardest. Gotta be some kinda middle ground between honors and DE that majority of colleges will accept.
I don't think College Board not giving credit to students to who took Precalc before it was AP is all that crazy. I haven't heard them do that before so I don't think they have any kind of precedent for doing that. It definitely sucks that the course and test is not to regular AP level but if they don't already have a precedent for giving students credit for taking classes that later became AP I'm not mad that they didn't
I decided to take AP Calc AB instead of AP Precalc this year bc I actually want to challenge myself
my brain turned off in the first 10 seconds
I took AP Precalc at my school and honestly there was only 1 hard unit and that was it. And I thought I did bad on the exam but no I somehow got a 4. So yeah I agree to your point.
its not about rigor, its about making college board money.
Good point! I'll be expanding on this in my next video..
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are passing rates not determined by percentiles in the us? Also, perhaps the passing rate is high because they understand precalculus is very useful in other fields of study, and dont want people to feel threatened by a big scary maths course.
ok nvm after watching this video it is a joke, wtf usa
@@alyme_r Yeah lol, the USA is a bit different. They have seperate percentages for a 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 but I focused on the the percentage of people scoring a 3+ because a 3 and above is passing.
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