<p>Does anyone have any good recommendations for preparing for the online calc placement test? Is it more pre-calc oriented?</p>
<p>who has to take those? people that took AP calc or college calc... or neither?</p>
<p>I think in the letter they said for MCS students you take them regardless of your AP/college placement standing. If you want to send them in, you can after you take the test.</p>
<p>Wait, what? It's an online test? When is it? I don't recall ever getting information about that.</p>
<p>i think its during orientation week. u have to take it if you want to skip the intro calc classes.</p>
<p>which college are you going to? Maybe only MCS kids have to take them. And I just got the letter 2 days ago.</p>
<p>i'm in hss... but planning to transfer to tepper. hmmmmmmm... i hope only you MCS kids have to take the online test. i wonder how difficult it is. it would totally be a drag to take calc I and II again!</p>
<p>I'm in CIT and the only thing I've gotten is the housing stuff. I have yet to get anything about placement tests.</p>
<p>I thought it came in the mail and the figured if you cheated on it, you were just hurting yourself by being in a higher calc class than you should be and failing it.</p>
<p>I'm going to SCS, and I received info on the test a few days ago. For us it has to be taken online by July 6 regardless of AP status.</p>
<p>sabertoothtiger: in the mail? I'm also SCS and I haven't gotten anything since the housing stuff.</p>
<p>This may be helpful: </p>
<p>Yes, I received the packet in the mail on Monday here in PA. If you want to get a head start you can check out <a href="http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/%7Epattis/advising/advising.html%5B/url%5D">http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~pattis/advising/advising.html</a> which has all of the forms (but don't print them yet, the ones he sends you are color-coded).</p>
<p>Have any of you taken the test yet? How did you do?</p>
<p>I took it a few minutes after getting the e-mail, without preparing or anything. Yeah, not so smart. I got 1 wrong on each of them except for a perfect on integration and a 3 on differential equations x_x Probably because I went from AB Calculus to Multivariate and Diffy Qs. I hope they at least put me in Cal III.</p>
<p>I haven't taken it yet, but the e-mail I got from my advisor said they use an algorithm including the placement test, AP scores, and math SAT II, so with missing questions I would imagine you would still place into Calc III. How many questions are in each section/how long does it take>?</p>
<p>hm i got -2 on the alg and -3 on the last section, perfect on the rest. gah oh well i don't really care what class i'm in because starting over from scratch would definitely be fun</p>
<p>I just took it. Wasn't too bad - though I feel like I should have aced it since I did learn this material less than a year ago. </p>
<p>Ah well. :P</p>
<p>TYPIST, is it very general problems? like basic differentiation and integration, and a lot of pre-calculus topics? also were there a lot of fundamental algebra problems, and how easy were those? thanks so much :)</p>
<p>I recieved the lowest score in the algebra section! I got a minus 2. Not all of the differentiation is <em>basic</em> - it takes a somewhat in-depth knowledge of calculus. It wasnt too bad - the hardes section is probably the last one.</p>