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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Precalc is not hard at all for mathy kids. Students that are at a level that leads to getting to Multivariable calc senior year should have no trouble with precal. 
OP does your student’s school have a group who progress to mulitvariable by senior year(ie BC cal in 11th), without taking summer math to skip ahead? Is that a path for the top students each year? If so, consider why your student was not placed on that path in 5/6/7th grade. Maybe they are not one of the top math students and would truly risk a poor grade by doing precal quickly in the summer. 
If no students in the school do that path then it is NOT needed because even T10 only expects the highest math path offered by the school. We know kids who pushed ahead when the school did not place them there and it was a mess. The ones placed in the track for Multi still did not all get into T10, though no stem kids got in to t10 without it. It is necessary from some high schools, but not sufficient. [/quote]

It is hard.  It’s hit or miss on who gets into what school.  [/quote]

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