Can you also tell me more information about the courses, adv functions and cal? How hard is it and what I should expect when I take the course. I'm really stressed about it, and I want to improve, my goal is to aim 85% and above. Any suggestions?
Advanced functions is like university level grade 11 math, but on steroids - hence the "advanced" descriptor. You learn about quadratic and cubic functions, graphing and solving inequalities, transformations, real-life trigonometry problems and proofs (hard as hell for some people), the unit circle and special triangles, laws of exponents and logarithms, and a few other things. As you can see, most of this stuff you already have experience with, it's just more
advanced.
I think
Calculus is easier to do than advanced functions; the first few chapters minus the first (which is about the calculus theory - it's annoying) are all about applying rules, and this consists plenty of
algebraic manipulation. The techniques you acquire now, and in advanced functions, in theory, should make the manipulations and simplification steps easier to do. The hardest chapter in Calculus is optimization, but the good news is that on
our channel, we have over 15 optimization examples, and they cover the most popular ones taught in high school. Here's an example of that:
Calculus is coupled with
vectors, and if you've ever taken physics, there's a lot of overlap there. Vectors prepares you for linear algebra in university - if you were to ever take that course later on in your life. Vectors I'd say is on par with the difficulty level experienced in advanced functions. Luckily, we have videos mades for EVERY topic under the sun pertaining to both courses.
But then I found your website and it helped me a lot which I appreciate so much, wish I found out about it before I even started the course.
Glad it did what it was intended for! Normally we attract college/university students, so having high schools is a plus. I didn't realize you were in high school until you posted this, comes to show how much overlap in study material exists between college and high school.
Perhaps you could continue to study over the summer, borrow a textbook from the library or from your school, and practice each chapter. You can even us Biology Forums to ask questions along the way - we're open every day of the year
If you need one-on-one real-life tutoring, our company
offers that as well.