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possible at least, if you're smart and dedicated

>>4569326

Anything aside from Khan Academy and what's in the sticky that would help me? I've heard reading Euclid's Elements helped, but I think that's just for understanding math in general (though that still sounds beneficial)

>>4569302

I did it. Was forced to take sophomore geometry for a semester my first year of high school. By the end of the first semester of my second year, I was halfway through the AP Calculus book.

>>4569330
comprehensive textbooks with practise questions included are your best bet
most are downloadable, or you can buy, some are fairly cheap if you want a hard copy

I learned most of the stuff I'm researching outside of class. You're GOING to have to learn how to learn things without an instructor to correct your mistakes and force you to sit in lecture. The grades are just there because schools get thousands of applications a year and it would be horrible for them to sit with each student and evaluate their understanding of subjects and then judge them using only these "auditions" that gives a weak assessment of their studying habits (although if you find better ways, say publication or letters of req from people who are well known, to demonstrate your knowledge outside of grades, your grades won't hold much weight compared to those demonstrations). If you're just testing out of a class, you don't have to take those prereqs, just learn them by yourself (with textbook/online lecture of course).

>>4569337

Well that's certainly inspiring.

>>4569372

Right, though I do, and always have had a problem with focus. This effects pretty much everything save for vidya and the internet of course. I'd ask for advice, but I feel it would be out of place on /sci/,

im in trig right now, taking precalc at school at the moment, and I'd say you should be fine. if you are good at math, then youd barely even need precalc. it's really easy or it is to me at least. wish I would've taken honors or AP. bad choice of mine, you should be okay OP.

>>4569330
http://patrickjmt.com/

Think you'd need a general idea of the things in pre calc that would make understanding concepts in calc easier. There's so much to lnx and e that the intro to those in pre calc should help. And I guess the probability/combinations come in handy for power series and Taylor series. Honestly I don't think any of it is 100% needed, but depending on how good you are at math, it would help to have a good understanding of those before calc, especially if you intend to speed through it.