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I'm a retard and I need to study math starting from basic algebra all up to integrals and trigonometry in two months.

But I'm afraid to skip any of the easy subjects because since I didn't do jack shit in school I'm afraid I'll miss something important that'll fuck me later.

But I'm also afraid there's no time for me to not skip anything.

what do

>> No.7897095

>>7896954
Start studying and stop making useless threads.

>> No.7897099

>>7897095
This.
Get on Khan Academy and start doing his babby slow paced videos.

>> No.7897113

>>7897095
I do study. It's just that I can see that by the pace I'm moving I won't make it in two months, especially since things are going to get only harder and slower.

>> No.7897121

>>7897113
Those concepts are covered in 3 years of 1.5 hr classes.

~35 weeks of class * 3 years * 2 meets a week = 210 classes you need to catch up on.

That's about 340 hours of class.

You have 60 days.

Average person has 16 hours in a day subtract 1 hour for meals.

If you study every day you could do it.

Instead of looking for easy answers. Just more.

>> No.7897122

>>7897121
*just study more

>> No.7897163

>>7897121
Where I'm from these concepts are studied from 8th up to 12th form. This is 5 years of cramming.

We had approximately 6 classes of 45 minutes a week. That's 162 hours a year, 810 hours over 5 years.

Plus all the homework which accounts for another 300 hours or so at least.

Yeah I'm fucked. Thanks for making it ever so clear.

>> No.7897169

>>7896954
>from basic algebra all up to integrals and trigonometry in two months

I'm just going to break it down to you. Unless you are a Terence Tao tier genius you won't. If by basic algebra you mean shit like x + x = 2x then you won't.

Retards do learn these subjects but they really take a long time to swallow them and that is why school mathematics advances so slow. Very few can actually swallow the thick cum of mathematics' cock and be able to go for round two in a few hours.

If you need this for university, just drop it and apply again for next semester after you know all this shit.

Just keeping it real m8.

>> No.7897387

>>7897169
Well I don't literally have to learn it for the first time. I remember parts of it. So far it has been going easy but I'm still moving slowly cause I haven't deared to skip anything.

Algebra is a bitch and I do careless mistakes tho :(

>> No.7897416

>>7897387
When you say you remember parts of it you mean you did this in school?

I don't see how someone could forget something like mathematics.

>> No.7897570

>>7897416
You haven't been into a shit school then mate.

I barely graduated.

>> No.7897681

>>7896954
>>7897163
>>7897387

swede here
>very barely pass math 2 for social science students which is as basic as algebra gets
>five years later decide to be engineer and do math 3 as a 10 week program
>have to learn fractions, powers, roots, algebra, logarithms, basic geometry, all that curve shit, integrals and basic trig
>studied erry day and got a B

protips:
>learn fractions, arithmetic order, parantheses and laws of powers WELL
>learn this: x^-1 = 1/x^1
>get someone to explain how f(x) relates to f '(x) and F(x)
>pay attention in class
works in sweden

>> No.7899615

>>7897121
>>7897163

The estimations are nominal and not realistic.

For your time in class, multiply it by a percentage of what you think on average your efficiency was. i.e. you're not learning 100% of the time in class but rather 75-85% of the time. Time talking to other people and general free time shouldn’t be counted in the calculations.

For your number of classes per week, subtract the number of days that you might have missed or when you may have watched some shitty educational video about what you’ve already learned.

Taking from an existing example form >>7897121 for comparison:
1.5 hr classes * 85% = 1.275hr/class
(~35 weeks of class * 3 years * 2 meets a week) – (~39meets/yr) = 201 classes you need to catch up on.

That's about 256 hours of class.
This isn't the end all be all method but at least it's more realistic.

Adding in the homework time would be beneficial in the estimation too.

Then account for dumb shit that they may have taught you or time taken to learn something that doesn’t pertain to your situation and your total hours of class just keeps going down…