<p>Anyone have any input on this endeavor? Registration opened tonight, and the system let me register for both II and III... so I'm contemplating going ahead with it.</p>
<p>There isn’t much overlap really so it’s doable. Multiple integrals in calc 3 usually won’t require you to use all the integration techniques you learn in calc 2. Even if you end up needing to, you’ll probably have already gone over it in calc 2 by the time you reach them. </p>
<p>Why would you want to do this in the first place? Calc 2 is considered a weed-out class at a lot of schools, so it might be best to just focus on that.</p>
<p>I think it’d doable, depending on the curriculum at your school. The above person I think is right (if memory serves me correctly). The only overlap is multiple integrals, but in Calc III, you (probably) only do the basic ones from Calc II. Since for some people in your Calc III class (esp. those who took AP Calc BC), it may have been a few years, so the professor <em>should</em> review that anyway. At my school as well, I can confirm Calc II is considered harder than Calc III. </p>
<p>How <em>smart</em> taking both at once is depends on your math abilities. If you pick things up quickly, it shouldn’t be bad, if you have gaps in your math knowledge that you’ll need to study up on to get through the course, it could be stressful. It’ll be hard to tell early in the semester in my opinion whether or not it’ll be difficult, because usually the first couple weeks aren’t that hard in any math class.</p>
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<p>The fact that a registration system let you do something is not definitive. What does your catalog say? What are the published prereqs for Calc III? It’s your responsibility to register only for classes for which you are qualified. Have you taken AP Calc BC?</p>
<p>Yeah it was like 2:30 in the morning when I posted this, haha. Definitely not doing II and III at the same time.</p>
<p>A little more realistically, what about II and diff. eq.? Just out of curiosity of course.</p>
<p>Only if you fancy teaching yourself all of Calc II (not just integration) over break.</p>