<p>Hello everyone...Just wondering how hard Calc II is in comparison to Calc I. I was at orientation a couple weeks ago and the engineering profs strongly discouraged AP-ing out of calc I. I don't know yet what i got on the AB test, but I averaged an A the whole year, so I signed up for calc II in the fall. Has anybody gone this route and is it a smooth transition?</p>
<p>I'm an engineering professor and I strongly discourage students going to straight to Calc II as well. College Calculus is not the same as high school calculus - I don't care what high school you went to, it's just not the same. Can you be successful? Sure. But I've seen a lot of people have a hard time with the jump to Calc II. It's crucial to get a good calculus foundation for engineering.</p>
<p>I jumped to Calc II straight and it was fairly difficult....as long as you study though you should be fine</p>
<p>calc II is generally the most difficult in the calc sequence...mostly because of sequences and series. good luck.</p>
<p>anybody else?</p>
<p>CALC 2 was difficult. Harder than calc 1. Like half the kids dropped the class. I studied A LOT for the CALC 2 tests(like 4 days before tests). I think you should place out of calc 1 as long as you've mastered derivatives and intergals. You'll be fine.</p>
<p>Compare to calc 1, I don't think calc 2 was that much different, or difficult for that matter. However, to fully understand calc 3 in my opinion, requires much more effort.</p>
<p>Cal II isn't that hard to start freshman year, especially if you took BC calculus.</p>
<p>great now i'm not sure i should place out...</p>
<p>i got a 5 on my AP Calc AB test. probably with some change left over too, i felt really good about the test AND the class...i never had to study excessively hard, and when we had study sessions at my house around finals - besides providing dinner :p - i ended up explaining many of the problems and not really asking for too much help. in the post AP Test weeks we picked up integration by parts and finished that pretty handily.</p>
<p>should i place into Calc II?</p>
<p>I agree with dr_reynolds. I took calc in high school but decided to take Calc 1 in college anyways. It was the lowest grade I've gotten in college. There are so many thing that differentiate it from what you took in high school. Also, remember that everything you take after this builds on this class. I felt it was better to make sure that I had a solid and complete background in the fundamentals.</p>
<p>We had sequences and series in Calc I. Calc II was Vector Calc. You might want to check the course descriptions, since every school is a bit different (or we just might be weird)</p>
<p>I believe that Calc II went through logarithms, inverse functions, integration techniques/applications, sequences, and series. I am split with on this debate. I have seen pretentious little girls who thought AB was a sinch and drop out of Calc II and guys who struggle through the class and did well. I, for one, had a moderate difficulty with the class. I got my B+ and was happy with the world.</p>
<p>wow the stuff i learned in calc II is different from what u guys have said. in my school, calc II was all about derivatives, integration (also applications and such) and calc III was vectors, sequences and series. i got Cs in Calc I-III. i don't know if that's okay for an engineering major. since they're support courses, i know i should've done better, but then i'm on the quarter system, so time flies. getting all that info in my head in just 10 weeks was difficult (for me at least). i guess i'm starting to get used to it.</p>
<p>my question is, though, is a passing grade (for an engineering major) good enough?</p>