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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AP pre-calc is a fraction of the material of a current honors ore-calc class in any major district and definitely private school.  It's a super dumbed down class.[/quote]

You keep posting this yet my kids teacher that teaches both AP Precalc and AP Calc, really likes the AP Precalc curriculum.  I don’t exactly know why, but certainly it’s not because the kids are learning less.[/quote]

I think what’s going on is that private schools are telling their parents that they teach beyond the exam, without telling them that the AP curriculum itself also goes beyond the exam.

Only Units 1-3 of 4 are on the exam, which is a little counterintuitive but makes sense if, as the College Board itself says, the whole point is not college credit but to provide curriculum support to school systems like DCPS that don’t have the resources of MCPS or Sidwell. At a school like JR where there’s a sizable cohort of students going on to Calc BC and school goes on for more than a month after the AP exams, teachers are very likely to take advantage of that optional fourth unit. [/quote]

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