This is a tricky judgement call that only you can answer, but at least IMO this is the way the mental calculus works for me at least.

I'm not going to buy and rent unless there's marked appreciation over the next ten years, and I don't care too much if I pay 5% over current market value when I'm going to see average appreciation of 3-5% a year for the next ten.It's the same calculus that Blackstone group used when they bought up all the foreclosed houses in 2012, and it paid off royally for them.

Theoretical math and calculus is far and away different from understanding how the world works.  

Fortunately, I excelled in my major even though the calculus courses ate me alive.You just have to find a way to shorten the path of the formulas given to you.

Calculus or trigonometry may seem irrelevant, but it really develops your algebra skills - which are very important in investment analysis. 

Question for you as someone who has passed, would you say that the test in general is more logical and the correct answer will jump out at you given their good study habits or is the test in general more "tricky" like some of those pre-calculus tests we all remember and the first gut response answer may not be the correct one based on a small detail.My favorite example is: Your driving a bus with 10 people on it, at the first stop 7 get on and 4 get off. 

(Economics tell me fewer LTRs equals higher rent prices.)For some people, the calculus might lead them to say the intrusion is not worth the small exacerbation of the housing affordability problem in Denver.

The stuff that's hitting you now sounds like calculus.

I am a spreadsheet and math queen (youngest person in my school district to take Calculus in high school). 

There is so much data out there, every time I came across new or different data my calculus changed.