<p>How do you get in touch with your academic advisor? Also, is it recommended to take Calc III and either skip Calc II or take Calc II at GT or some other college? And would GT then take the credit from the other college?</p>
<p>^ How are you skipping Calc II? I thought even if you got a 5 on AP Calc BC you could only skip Calc I?</p>
<p>Well I would either do really well on the placement test or somehow get credit on calc ii by taking a separate course</p>
<p>I took Adv. Calc in high school, and we covered most of Calc II, how do I take the placement test to get out of it? I don’t think GTech has one for Calc II.</p>
<p>I think the reason why Tech may not have a placement test is because Tech’s Calc II class also contains material that covers concepts in linear algebra</p>
<p>But they do have a placement test</p>
<p>Yes, they do have a placement test, and I’m wondering the same thing. Also, is there a linear algebra option we can take in stead of Calc II.</p>
<p>FreelancerMaine: I took Adv. Calc in high school, and we covered most of Calc II, how do I take the placement test to get out of it? I don’t think GTech has one for Calc II. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, AP Calculus BC doesn’t actually cover most of Calc II. If you look at the curriculum, you will see that Calc II at Tech covers linear linear algebra (2/3 of the curriculum). This is the reason why they don’t give you credit for Calc II.</p>
<p>davinhtran1993 - I took Calc BC in Junior year, I’m talking about Multivariable Advanced Calculus which I took Senior Year.</p>
<p>Multivariate Calculus is Calc 3, not Calc 2.</p>
<p>FreelancerMaine: Still. As said above, multivariable calculus is calc 3. At GTech, Calc 2 cover part of AP Calculus BC and linear algebra. (Again, this is why Tech don’t give people credit for Calc II when they take BC). Try to look at their syllabus first before assuming anything.</p>
<p>I have looked at the syllabus, and I know about 85% of the material on there. I understand what you’re saying about not getting credit from BC for Calc 2, but I should be able to place out of Calc II right?</p>
<p>There is a MATH 1502 (Calc 2) placement test for those that exempted MATH 1501 (calc 1) from AP/whatever. As others have said, 2/3 of the course is linear algebra (as a matter of fact my final was all linear algebra, and I had to do a 2 short proofs…). So, obviously, if you have no or even only little linear algebra knowledge, I would suggest taking MATH 1502. </p>
<p>If you have transfer credit for MATH 2401 (Calc 3/multivariable calculus) and Tech acknowledges that transfer credit, meaning, doesn’t matter where you took it or you knew it when you were 5, GT has to recognize the credit, then yea, you can skip Calc 3 and take MATH 2403 if you need it. You can actually also take 2403 without 2401 since the only pre-req for 2403 is 1502. But, like myself and many, I suggest taking 2401 first unless it’s full and you can’t get into it.</p>
<p>FreelancerMaine, I can’t tell you if you can place out of something because I don’t know what previous classes you have taken. My suggestion is that if you only took Calc BC, enroll in MATH 1502. If you have taken a course dedicated to linear algebra, go for the placement exam.</p>
<p>tma585, thank you for the information. Like I said, I took Calc BC Junior year, got a 5, and then took Multivariable Advanced Calc Senior year, where around half the course was linear algebra, and after taking a look at the syllabus, I know around 80-85% of the topics on there. The only things I don’t know are Diagonalization and Symmetric Matrices, Inner Products and Orthogonality, and Gram Schmidt and QR.</p>
<p>I’ll give the placement exam a shot, but how difficult would you say Calc 2401 is? Is it a good idea, for my Computer Engineering major, to jump into Calc III?</p>
<p>If you want to take the placement test (and it doesn’t cost you anything but time), I would go online and study those topics on your own for preparation because I am not 99% but 100% sure some of those topics will be covered, especially Gram Schmidt process (finding orthogonal, aka perpendicular, basis for a set of vectors) and diagonalization which isn’t too hard if you know eigenvalues and eigenvectors. </p>
<p>Since you’re not a math major, all that stuff I don’t think is really that useful. Stuff like row reduction, determinants, linear independence sets, and knowing how to find eigenvalues/eigenvectors IS important as it will come up in diff eq). Since MATH 1502 is the pre-req for diff eq, and it is expected you know all that already, I don’t know how much review of those topics they will do. I am taking that class right now at a different school over the summer.</p>
<p>2401 to some is hard and they hate it, but I actually enjoyed the class somewhat. If you are comfortable Calc 1 material and have good calculus foundation, Calc 3 shouldn’t be super hard. To me, the hardest part about Calc 3 is the 3-dimensional visualization. A common question can be something like calculate the volume of the region bounded below by a ball(sphere) of radius 2, above by a cone, and the sides by some planes. If you can visualize that on the coordinate plane, then you’d be good. Even if you aren’t as I’m not, you still should have enough information to have a good idea of what it looks like. Calc 3 is just more differentiation and more integration in higher dimensions and a lot more theorems.</p>
<p>You can only get AP credit for CalcI (Math 1501). (Calculus AB Version 4 or 5 to exempt Calculus BC Version 3 or higher) If you have college credit from another institution that you transferred over than you obviously dont need to take CalcI (Math 1501) or CalcII (Math 1502). Tech does offer placement test for Math 1501 and Math 1502 ( CalcI and CalcII). You have to apply to take the test by August 14th and the tests are on Friday August 16th from 1pm-3pm.</p>
<p>Even if you get college credit to transfer for calc 2, it’ll only transfer as MATH15x2, which is Transfer Calc 2 or something like that. You will then need to get MATH 1522 which is linear algebra for calculus in order to get the GT MATH 1502 credit, before moving on. Then, like you said, there are placement tests.</p>