<p>mex, i am really sure about the corelation of calc and LSAT.</p>
<p>My friend is an engineering student at UCLA, took 4 calc classes plus HS calc, and did pretty poorly on LSAT.</p>
<p>From my personal expirience taking calc in HS and in CC and looking at LSAT, i dunno if it helps substantially.</p>
<p>I am a chem major, it does help me think in terms of manipulating equations and combining equations and looking for unknowns in terms of solving. </p>
<p>I am not really sure about LSAT, i'd recomend studying w/ prep books over taking calc.</p>
<p>Calculus III has nothing to do with Calculus II....assuming you know how to find derivatives, integrals etc...I think you should be fine taking Calculus III...although I would review some Calculus II topics such as: </p>
<p>Trig Subs
Partial Fractions</p>
<p>etc.</p>
<p>But ofcourse it all depends on how confident you are...if I had taken the BC test I would have skipped Calc II.</p>
<p>I had a 94% in my calculus I class this spring semester and took the requried department wide final. turns out my teacher sucks and nothing he taught was on the final. I got a D on the final and a B in the class.</p>
<p>There goes my shot at berkeley engineering. F***</p>
<p>When I had to take Calculus many people said that it's really hard. But I went ahead anyway without taking precalc coz the dumb a** of a professor wouldn't add anybody to that section. I took what they call "reform" calculus at my cc vs "traditional" calc. I guess in "reform" calc for calc I they focus on understanding what derivatives are and how to apply them. Not so much of memorizing stuff like in "traditional" calc. Also I got to use a calculator in "reform" calc I and II. I don't think "traditional" calc courses allow calculators. Till this day I still don't know what they learn in "traditional" calc I. Then in calc II and III, it doesn't really matter whether you take "reform" or "traditional" calc. From experience, if you're gonna go on to advanced calc or upper div. math, stick to "traditional" calc. If your school only offers one kind of calc then it's probably "traditional." I took calc I and II at my cc which were considered "reform" coz we could use calculators. But i decided to take calc III at Berkeley which is "traditional" and I had a hard time initially coz I couldn't use a calculator and we had no "cheat" sheet (a sheet of paper with formulas). I've taken Linear Algebra and Differential equations, and you definitely need a calculus background. You don't have to remember every single thing from calculus, but as long as you have a firm grasp of the important concepts in calculus it will all come back to you. </p>
<p>Just like any math class, practice, practice, practice! Good luck!</p>
<p>More advanced sections of freshman calculus will usually have a greater emphasis on proofs and the theory of calculus than classes that emphasize calculation.</p>
<p>I wouldn't say that. I thought that precalc was extremely easy. I just sat there and got an A. I never got a score lower than 97% on a given precalc test. However, when I took Calc, I spent 2+ hours a day just to barely get an A. And I failed a test along the way, it was just that the teacher dropped the lowest test score. Just a warning guys, the transition from pre-calc to calc to extremely huge.</p>
<p>It's not that bad. What you need to succeed are: 1, a strong math substratum; 2, perseverance. You have to work it until it becomes second nature, at which point, it's a lot of fun. You can't be afraid to get it wrong.</p>
<p>Calc is awesome.. I was placed at multivariable in college so I never took Calc I and Calc II in college. I took a lot of calc courses in high school and right now i am taking a crazy 300 level course in sophomore year woohoo!</p>