@gail, exactly.
Here’s my scoop: I have three jobs. I spend every waking moment I’m not working doing calculus, and I still receive steady sixty percents on my homework. The reason is that I never took Pre Calculus, and though I sometimes am able to get the right answers, I don’t understand how or why. I will have to take calc 2 next semester, as well as a few other classes that need cal 1 as a prereq, and it will be the same deal there, except I’ll be taking five other classes on top of it.
In fact when I talked about how horrible my cal has been in this post, the majority rule was that I should drop it and take precal first (which is now what I want to do). I think it’ll be better in the long run to have a W than a string of C’s and D’s spotting my 3.4 average transcript, and an incomplete understanding of the subject.