<p>I got a 16% on my first AP Calc quiz on limits. I know that is absolutely awful but the subject material just didnt click with me. I have 2 more quizzes to redeem myself before this lady kicks me out of the class. Do you guys thinks I could enter college by just taking regular calc and then taking Calc 1 in college?</p>
<p>Well yes, but if you simply can’t do calculus, then I think you’re going to have a problem regardless of when you take it.
I know people who simply could not pass calculus no matter how hard they tried, and they wanted to be in engineering. Sooner or later they all dropped out because even if you do manage to make it through, it won’t be much fun.</p>
<p>Calculus is a college-level course and it’s common for people to do badly on it at first because it’s unlike most other things people have encountered in their math classes up to that point. I suggest you get a Princeton Review/Barron’s book on calculus and do all the problems relating to limits before your next two quizzes. You could definitely go be an engineer without having taken a full calculus course in high school though, but it would be a little harder.</p>
<p>I think Im pretty good at math and most math I dont really have to study for. Im just going to study harder because Im not used to struggling in math. I’ve only had a week of instruction so far so I think I can turn it around.</p>
<p>You can major in engineering starting with calculus 1 in college.</p>
<p>However, if you find it a struggle now, you may find it even more so in college. If your high school AP calculus course is AB, then be aware that college calculus 1 will cover material at a faster pace.</p>
<p>You may want to check your algebra, geometry, and trigonometry knowledge using these placement tests, which test high school math knowledge that you are expected to know before enrolling in calculus 1 in college:
<a href=“http://math.tntech.edu/e-math/placement/index.html”>http://math.tntech.edu/e-math/placement/index.html</a>
<a href=“http://math.berkeley.edu/courses/choosing/placement-exam”>http://math.berkeley.edu/courses/choosing/placement-exam</a></p>
<p>What was the material of the the test? Was your problem conceptual, like you have no idea how a derivative is found or how limits work? Or does algebra and geometry suck?</p>
<p>I think I’ll be fine. I just didnt put in the work to know the material. I thought just reading the notes was enough. We’re going to have a retest Wednesday and I think I should be prepared by then. (This is the first time ever this teacher has let people retake her test, we must be her best bunch.</p>
<p>And the thing is I have prior knowledge of integrals and derivatives and I’m alright with them for now, it was just our 1st limits quiz after 4 days of school and I didnt do enough problems to understand the material. I also need to brush up on factoring.</p>
<p>And those placement tests were a breeze</p>
<p>Well remember you properties of limits, the limits of the special trigonometric functions, that if you get 0/0 when plugging in what your variable is approaching is the in-determinant form and does not mean that the limit does not exist, remember that numerically the limit does not exist if it approaches infinity, and that graphically the limit does not exist if 1.) there is a jump in the graph(meaning the the limit isn’t the same as you approach from both the left and the right) 2.) there is an asymptote and 3.) oscillation of the graph</p>
<p>also 1/0 is undefined and not the same as 0/0 which is the in-determinant form</p>