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Holy crap, 5 calcs?

I think I hate calc because it's so... incredibly... boring...

Differential Equations, though. That's some good times.

Discrete math is fun with matrices, without the fun.

But no, you haven't experienced pain and suffereing until you've taken CSE 350 at the University at Buffalo. Algortihms. Ever wondered how to solve Hanoi's Tower in constant time? Neither have I, and that's why it sucked.
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My son got a 4 on one calc exam (he took that last spring) and is taking the another calc exam next week. Obviously he's hoping for a 5 on the next one. Damned things are expensive at $85 each and he's taken english exams as well.

I assume they'll let him know during freshman orientation in early June, but I'd prefer he take one lower just for reveiw. Of course, I suck at math, so I would always play it on the safe side.

Thanks for the link. Something to reveiw ahead of time.

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I'm not exactly looking forward to taking DiffEq when I get back to Georgia Tech from CP, but if I want to enjoy any of my college years I better make the most of it. As an Aerospace Engineering major, I've got three more years of classes based on Calc 3 and DiffEq. So for those of you dreading Calculus, think of me and my agony when I'm taking high-speed aerodynamics and fluid dynamics.

OldCPer, I got a 5 on the Calc BC exam my senior year. This past Fall, I took Honors Calc 2 and today I just took my final for Calc 3. At my school anyways, college calculus is a huge step up from HS/AP calculus, even though it may cover the same topics. I would strongly recommend that he take the highest course he is able to. If he doesn't, he (like me) could end up thinking that the material is easier than it really is or that he already knows it and not take it too seriously. I breezed through all math I took in High School, and then I finally realized how stressful math can be.

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OldCPer: the $85 is much less than the equivalent tuition at UM. An in-state student in their first two years pays $25 per hour to sit in one of my lectures (assuming tuition goes only to pay for instruction time---obviously not true.). After the first two years, they pay $33/hour. Out of state students pay $78 or $87 per hour.

Despite this, there is something to astrosgp's advice. Really, it boils down to Ian's comfort level. Either strategy can work for a student.

Try P-Chem and Thermal Physics back to back in the fall lol thats what i have so ill have more partial derivation than the law should allow lol....gotta love the 8 million variables that go into gas laws and kinetics
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He's "breezing" through calc 2 right now, but that's what I'm afraid of. He's going to find calc 3 at the college level a bit more difficult, and he won't have Mr. Cotner to joke around with. Of course, if he manages a 5 in his AP test next week, I guess he's got a good handle on it.

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From my experiences with AP Calc, the best way to decide is to speak to either an advisor or a math prof during orientation. They can ask your son some questions on what he learned and determine if it would be better retake a course covered by AP credit. If your son does well on the AP test, than I think he should go for the more advanced class, the AP test is pretty good at covering what you would learn in a college calc class. It's only if he scores somewhere in the middle that I would reccomend maybe retaking calc 2.

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*** This post was edited by Coasterfan 4/28/2004 5:15:22 PM ***
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Calc is certainly fun and at times difficult to handle. College calc is no different, but the degree of difficulty depends on where you go. A lot of schools are easy, but at Case I hear it is insanely hard from those who got a score of 5 on the BC exam. Chemistry, though, is the hardest subject in college based on average GPAs. Try taking inorganic and organic chemistry plus their labs in one year. I would not recommend that to anyone.

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Swim4life said:
I honestly think I am one of the only people that enjoy calc and analytic geometry.

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I like all those classes too :-) I am at the University of Glasgow in my final year doing honours Maths! It's kinda hard going, challenging but well....fun. I'm doing my teacher training in Maths next year

Do you guys have to pay to sit exams??? I knew you had to pay tuition, but I thought (assumed) that exams would be included. Thanks to the fact that the Labour party couldn't get enough votes after Devolution to the Scottish Parliament, and so had to form a co-alition government with the Lib Dems, Scottish Domicilled students undertaking a course at a university in scotland do not have to pay fees at all - unless we fail an exam, then it's about £25 ~ $45 to resit. And when we graduate we pay £2000 ~ $3500 into a graduate endowment fund - but I dont cause they introduced that the year after I started Uni! WooHoo!

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The exams we pay for are Advanced Placement exams. Meaning, at the high school level, students can pay to take an exam to see if they can "skip" a lower level required course at University. The AP exams give a score between 1-5. A 3 or better means you know the material well enough to not have to take that class at the University level. I THINK students still get credit for the lower level courses they can skip due to AP.

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OldCPer: it's up to the individual college whether they want to give credit or not, but most do. Usually a 3-5 also gets a student credit, although sometimes a 3 only lets them skip the class. You can probably get a list of AP credit accepted and what it counts for from the university. I got one from Michigan State back when I was in high school and I'm sure UofM probably has something similar.

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