Just to clarify (AP Credit policies)

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>I passed out of the entry writing thing...I got a 3 on the AP lit exam and a 35 on the ACT for english...correct me if i'm wrong, lol</p>

<p>american cultures: 4 on APUSH exam. again correct me if i'm wrong</p>

<p>what about the other one? american institutions or whatever? i couldn't exactly find the ap credit policy for that one.</p>

<p>also, for math 1A or whatever, you just need a 3 to pass out of that? and if you don't get a 3, you have to take an entrance exam? what happens if you fail that? not saying i will..but..yeah, lol.</p>

<p>thanks guys.</p>

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<p>which college? L&S or CoE or CNR ?</p>

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<p>I am in letters and science.</p>

<p>bump, anyone?</p>

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<p>Both the AP Eng List grade of 3 and the ACT English score of 35 do waive the requirement for the Entry Level Writing. If those are already received by Cal, you won’t be asked to sit for the exam (AWPE).</p>

<p>The Cal requirement for American Cultures breadth cannot be waived by AP credit. You will have to take one class with an AC suffix sometime during your undergrad time at UCB. </p>

<p>The History AP you passed with a 4 does waive the American History and Institutions requirement. </p>

<p>Reference for the Cal-wide requirements [General</a> Catalog - Undergraduate Education - Undergraduate Degree Requirements](<a href=“http://catalog.berkeley.edu/undergrad/requirements.html]General”>http://catalog.berkeley.edu/undergrad/requirements.html)</p>

<p>Reference for additional L&S requirements [Degree</a> Requirements-Summary of Degree Requirements](<a href=“http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/requirements/intro.html]Degree”>http://ls-advise.berkeley.edu/requirements/intro.html)</p>

<p>A 3 or higher on either AP Calc will waive the L&S Quantitative Reasoning requirement, as will other scores as listed above.</p>

<p>Various foreign language APs also can be used to waive the Foreign Language requirement. </p>

<p>Many incoming high school students are waived for quantitative reason, american history/institutions and foreign language based on the courses they had already taken in high school. </p>

<p>Your various AP tests also can earn units that can be counted towards the 120 unit minimum needed to finish your Cal degree. See the Earning Your Degree brochure you will receive at CalSO for more details. </p>

<p>For Math 1A and AP scores, if you get a 3 on the AB Calc test, the college recommends but does not require you to take 1A, you can skip straight to 1B if you want to. 4 or 5 on AB are enough to skip straight to 1B. If you get a 5 on BC Calc, you can also skip 1B. Some majors may require you to take the pre-reqs rather than use AP scores to waive; check the department web sites for the details for each possible major you may select, although I don’t know of any that won’t let you AP out of 1A. </p>

<p>There is not an ‘entrance exam’ for math - there is a self-service exam on the math department web site to help students choose where to start, whether lower than 1A, at 1A or higher, by scoring your answers to a short set of problems. </p>

<p>FWIW - if you are posting a reply, no need to bump as your reply does the same thing.</p>

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<p>thank you so much!</p>

<p>i thought i read that there was a math entrance exam, but ok cool. so basically, if i don’t pass the ap calc ab exam, i can still take math 1A and I don’t need to do an entrance exam for it?</p>

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<p>there is a self-service exam on the math.berkeley.edu site that you can use to assess your readiness, but it is purely advisory. Scores are not tracked by Cal nor does the result of that force any specific classes. </p>

<p>The exam will recommend whether you are ready for the higher level classes like Math53/54, but also will steer you to Math 32 if the foundational skills in algebraic and trig manipulation are a bit weak. </p>

<p>Math at Cal is not like high school. In an exam, the test question is not just testing to see if you know the concept (derivative of a particular equation) but also throws in quite a bit of algebraic wrestling, sometimes the need to iteratively solve 2, 3 or 4 things to get to the answer, and in some cases requires a bit of mathematical insight to even see the way to unravel and solve the problem. Someone can know the concepts and procedures perfectly and still bomb out of the course because of those other factors that are thrown into most test questions here. Since most admitted students ace those courses in high school, if the problems weren’t made harder then every student would get an A in college classes, but they don’t. the challenge level is ratcheted up until a distribution of grades occurs that suits the department or college’s desired mix of outcomes.</p>

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<p>Can you let me know where the self service math exam is? Thanks.</p>

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