<p>What does it mean by:
"You cannot receive credits for Math 20A and Math 20B if you pass AP Calculus BC."</p>
<p>The grades/units for Math 20A and 20B don't count or the other way around?</p>
<p>You’ll get credit for 20A and 20B (4 units each) so you won’t have to take them if you pass the BC test. </p>
<p>They just mean that you won’t get credit for 20A or 20B if you enroll in them.</p>
<p>But do the grades earned in 20A and 20B still count towards your GPA?</p>
<p>You get Pass credits for it, not a letter grade so it doesn’t factor into your GPA.</p>
<p>If I got a 5 in AP Bio but I still want to take an intro bio class in college, can I use those as elective credits?</p>
<p>^i think you already get credit for BILD 1 & BILD 3 if you get a 5 on the AP Bio exam, but you can tell them that you dont want to use those credits, which enables you to take these classes for credit.</p>
<p>someone correct me if i’m wrong.</p>
<p>As a bio major, though, is it wise to take those classes?</p>
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So for premed students who have to take a year of letter-graded calculus, they must take 20C, 20D, etc. Is that right? If true, AP credits do more harm than good.</p>
<p>CalParent2008, that is correct. Pre-meds will have to take more math so that they will meet the med school reqs which means they need to go higher the series. Supposedly, if a student passed the AP Calc BC exam then she should be able to do well in the next courses in the series (its not like they will have to even take all lower div math class). Don’t think of it as harm, think of it as gravy; wait, gravy clogs arteries, aaaaaaahhhhhhh.</p>
<p>This is no gravy. Being able to take Math 20A and 20B for letter grade is.
I believe you can retake intro Calculus 1A/1B or 16A/16B for letter grade at Cal. They just don’t count your AP Calc credits.</p>
<p>I kinda don’t see the point in taking the BC exam if you want to take 20A and 20B anyway. The whole point of it is to skip those and go to the next class. </p>
<p>But, with that said, each college has their own set of exemptions and credits depending on the score you get on the exam. You can look here [Advanced</a> Placement Credit](<a href=“http://infopath.ucsd.edu/catalog/front/APCredit.html]Advanced”>http://infopath.ucsd.edu/catalog/front/APCredit.html) for information on your specific college and exam.</p>
<p>I don’t get people like CalParent2008.</p>
<p>You realize that if your son/daughter [and every other student like him/her] is allowed to take Math 20A and Math 20B after passing the AP Calc BC test, students who didn’t take the AP tests are at a severe disadvantage? Doesn’t seem quite fair for kids who have already taken the class to be setting the bar for students who are just learning the material.</p>
<p>Also, the point of college is not to grade-grub while taking the easiest possible classes. Yes, its understandable to want to get good grades, but it truly is not that difficult to take classes with new material and still get A’s. Wanting to go to med/law/business school doesn’t mean you have to cut corners with other aspects of your education. If your child is a good student, he/she will find a way to get A’s even in the hard classes.</p>
<p>Yeah, Cal probably does allow you to do that, but then again Cal has never been one to force its students to take any math and science courses that they don’t already want to take. At Berkeley, your entire science and math requirements can be wiped out by getting a 520 or higher on the math subject test and then taking one course from the bio science list and the physical science list. These two courses can be 2 units (and taken p/np) and the lists contain history, anthropology, liguistics, geography, public health, english, psychology, and nutritional science courses. Hardly the most demanding science breadth education. </p>
<p>[Degree</a> Requirement-L&S Requirements](<a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/requirements/lsreq.html#7breadth]Degree”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/requirements/lsreq.html#7breadth)</p>
<p>And I’ll second what miquemaus said.</p>
<p>There are a few points that I want to make:
- Some people take the AP classes and not the AP exams, especially seniors.
- Do you think someone who score a 3 in AP Calc are at a “severe advantage” over those who didn’t take the AP tests?
- Do you know how many who score a 5 in their AP tests and fail Math 1A/1B at Cal?
- It’s a noble thought to take the most rigorous and challenging curriculum in college, but the reality of professional school admissions dictates otherwise.</p>
<p>If those are your points, why don’t you just have your kid just not take the BC exam since it’d fulfill what you want anyway. They’d be able to take 20A and 20B, get credit, and get those As you want so badly for professional school. Your insecurity kills me. I’m with miquemaus.</p>
<p>If I got a 5 in AP bio, do you think it’s smart to take BILD 1 & BILD 3. Even though I got a 5, there were some topics we didn’t cover in depth that I want to review since I’m a bio major.</p>
<p>Konakai, are you pre-med?</p>
<p>A 4 or a 5 on AP bio gets you exemption from BILD 1,2,3</p>
<p>If you want to review, you may take those classes, but you will not get units for them. If you are a bio major and pre-med, I would suggest not taking these classes because you do a lot of in-depth studying of the basics in upper-div classes later on anyway.</p>
<p>I’m not pre-med, but I want to eventually go to grad school (possibly study the marine sciences).</p>
<p>Also, how many units are BILD 1, 2, and 3?</p>