<p>Got a 5 on the AP AB Calculus test so got credit. My major doesn't have you start Calculus until second semester freshman year. So basically if you got AP credit you start off with 126 but haven't had math since last summer. Even with reviewing over break, would it be impossible? I don't really want to take 125 subject matter all over since I got the credit.</p>
<p>just from the thread title, i was already going to say if you got a 5, or even a 4, on the AP AB test, go ahead and take 126. </p>
<p>since it'll be a while since you've taken math before you take 126, i'd say do what you can to review Calc I concepts in the mean time...check out books, do problems, just keep the concepts fresh in your mind. i remember it was kinda hard for me to get the basics down again, and that was just over the summer. but once you get past Calc II, the concepts from Calc I (esp. product rule, properties of logarithmic functions, etc) become second nature. i'm going to be in Math 445 now and i can say that the things you learn in Calc I become a way of life haha.</p>
<p>Depends on how well you know your math. :)</p>
<p>I don't know that delaying has too much drawback. I got a 5 on calc BC and it was nearly 2 years before I took calc 3 and managed fairly well. You forget some things but if you knew it well before it comes back pretty fast.</p>
<p>@phobos - math 445? Know integration by parts. And also review integration by parts. And, while you're at it, be sure you catch up on your integration by parts. :) Oh, and all those juicy surface integrals from calc 3. :)</p>
<p>126 is pretty hardcore. I would categorized it as weedout course. Try not to get behind in class, there is lots of materia for 126. I worked really hard for the class. I got 99/100 in the final. avg is like 70. It is not easy</p>
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haha sweet, thanks for the heads up :p. integration by parts, not so bad...but surface integrals...aayyye. i'll have to go over that again. and now that i think about it, i went in to talk to my Calc III prof once, and he showed me the first unit test he gives when he teaches 445...he said basically, this test (given about 3 weeks into the semester) covers all Calc III...great :rolleyes:</p>
<p>445 seemed to me like a lot of "cookie cutter" solving - this kind of problem, use this formula, that kind of problem, that method, etc.</p>
<p>What exactly do people find hard about 126? Difficulty of concepts? Heavy workload? Steep grading curve? I know it's a lot of those hard integrals...but is that it?</p>
<p>126 has many types of integration techniques. And there is also topics on sequences and series in addition to that. For the common, there is no problem that can be solved by only one techniques. They all required 2 or 3 techniques for each problem. It is the time pressure that ppl need to think of what technique to use. Plus for sequences and series problems, the types have its own condition. </p>
<p>for 445 it is 3 parts:1. Cal3, Fourier stuff,and PDE</p>
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i.e., just like 245? heh, it was probably one of the easiest, but at the same time most rewarding, math classes i've taken in a while, but of course, that could have a lot to do with the professor.</p>
<p>yeah, Calc II was definitely a thinking person's class...you really had to comprehend the fundamental ideas of calculus, of limits, of differential elements, before you could even start to understand anything else. at the time, my professor (Lototsky) seemed over the top and ridiculously difficult compared to the others, but i came to respect him after leaving the class. as the final homework for the year, my professor assigned every single final given for the previous 10 semesters of the class. over the top? you bet! incredibly helpful and useful? probably one of the most effective forms of studying i've seen yet...i got a 96% on my final whereas people with other professors that semester didn't do nearly as well. i think sequences and series were one of the easiest parts of the class, IMO, because most cases could be handled by the ratio test.</p>
<p>btw, interesting story about Lototsky...the semester i had him, i think there were 3 other professors teaching 126. each professor had to submit a few questions for the final. Lototsky submitted 9 potential problems...all but 2 of them were rejected by the other professors as "too difficult"...they couldn't solve them :p</p>