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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AP Precalc is a new money grab by the college board. It'll likely be very similar to the previous option, with the addition that you can pay to have your kid take a test to see whether or not the his grades were inflated.[/quote]

AP PreCalc is an absolutely ridiculous concept.  Remember the old days when AP classes were intended to be college level courses - not a class that basically every high school in the country routinely offers to most students?[/quote]

Some (most?) colleges probably do have a precal/trig class, but it's a remedial class.  What would a college do with a 5 on an AP Precal test?  Place out of remedial math?  [/quote]

It's meant to sweep kids who wouldn't take calc into being successful on the math track.  The new AP class can be taught with or without the extra unit...so there is some flexibility.   And for some degrees, (not comsci or engineering), the AP credit could satisfy a quantitative gen ed requirement.  But, as a country,  we should want to bring more people into math/engineering/science degrees...and we might need to help some kids get over the mental barrier that they aren't "math types."  So there's not really a downside to this.[/quote]

You explained the downside in your post - the new AP class can be taught with or without the "extra unit".  [/quote]

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