<p>Hey, all. I'm an incoming engineering freshman, and I got a 5 on the AP Calc AB test. Would you recommend that I take math 31A or 31B?</p>
<p>From what I've heard, I want to avoid Biskup. I had a teacher last year who sounds like him, and basically, all I did was math that semester. I'd prefer to not have to go through that again. While we're at it, how are Watson and Rothschild, who are both teaching 31B this upcoming quarter?</p>
<p>EDIT: Also, I got a 5 on AP Chem. Which chemistry course should I enroll in? I checked this link: </p>
<p>AP</a> Credit - School of Engineering and Applied Science - UCLA Undergraduate Admissions</p>
<p>but it just says "General" under 5 for AP Chem. Does that mean I enroll in 20A, or what? </p>
<p>Thanks :)</p>
<p>a 5 for calc ab doesn’t exclude u from any classes, just gives you units. so you’ll have to take the 31A series</p>
<p>for chem, you just gotta start from the very beginning of the 20 series</p>
<p>You enroll in 31B if you get a 5 on AB. ([UCLA</a> Department of Mathematics](<a href=“Undergraduate Program | UCLA Department of Mathematics”>Undergraduate Program | UCLA Department of Mathematics))</p>
<p>You can petition to skip 20A if you got a 5 on AP Chem, but people generally don’t do that.</p>
<p>Not true Noxfinitie. With a 5 on the AB test you will pretty much be forced to start with 31b. For chem, just start with 20A.</p>
<p>^Agreed, except, I personally would start with 20B. Why waste a quarter in a class you could have gotten out of. There’s no such thing as easy “A,” especially in such a core class. Nothing really useful occurs in 20A anyways, and you don’t need to know 20A to pass 20B… unless you don’t know how to balance an equation, but even then, they don’t really teach you that in 20A.</p>
<p>If you’re worried about 20L, you don’t really need to know 20A for that class either. It’s mostly based on 20B.</p>