Well, it depends where you want to start off from. If you want to place in higher math, then you can have it kick off from the College Algebra section.
I was just reviewing the lower math because I might decide to start from the bottom and work my way up...although I'd really like to place high up.
I'm not exactly sure about
all the topics covered in the college algebra content. I did do a search and I found these topics that it hits:
Functions
Exponents and Radicals
Complex Numbers
Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences and Series
Matrices (basic operations, equations, and determinants)
Factorials
Here's a study guide I found:
http://www.jccc.edu/home/download/5016/8-1699-C.pdf
It doesn't look that hard to me if I could learn it, but I doubt I'd do well on it now if I took it.
After that it progresses into Trigonometry. Here's a post I found concerning it:
Quote:
Do remember you only need to worry about the trig portion of the exam if you are trying to place into calculus.
For trig, one of my favorites is this: YouTube - Graphing a Trig Function that covers which covers graphing trig functions very clearly. I read this in a book, my husband explained it to me, but it was this video that made it very abundantly clear to me. And you WILL want to understand this frontwards and backwards, as there were several questions that required you to be very familiar with this. How to draw/identify these functions including shifting them up, down, shift them, and extending or compressing them, and knowing where key points on the wave are in radians.
I don't remember the others I watched. Trig I also just read some overview pages. If you understand the six functions and how to get them from a right triangle (SOH CAH TOA, etc.), graphing the functions based on a unit circle and modified (2 sin(x) + 1 or whatever), basic properties of special angles (30%, 45%, 60%), how to convert degrees to radians and back, and how to apply that knowledge (along with the pythagoreum theorm) to simple word problems that make you calculate angles and/or distances between two points...if you know all this, then you're in good shape for placing into Calculus.
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I'd like to know how hard learning this Trigonometry would be.