<p>How hard is it? Is this the class I should take having passed AP calc with a 5?</p>
<p>you should be going to 1920 with ap calc 5, ap calc is equivalent to 1910</p>
<p>No, only the BC exam is accepted. Otherwise I would be going to 1920 too. 1910 is nearly all stuff I learned already in my HS Calc class. which is annoying. However, you could take Cornell’s placement exam during Orientation to get into 1920.</p>
<p>yea i’m in the same boat. easy 5 on ab and my school doesn’t have bc… lame</p>
<p>yeah, that’s what I thought. Any student who have taken it before? What are the grade distributions? I saw that the median grade was a B which is relatively low compared with other courses.</p>
<p>I think I took calc which was equivalent to AB. Most of the 1910 stuff I know, except for only a handful of things (l’hopitals, taylor series). Is this easy stuff that i could just learn over the summer, take the test, and place into 1920? Or would that not be good?</p>
<p>I don’t want to have to learn how to take derivatives or do related rates over again. I know it already.</p>
<p>you think you know it, but you don’t really.</p>
<p>1910 is a great fundamental background, but it is a PITA and it screws some people over who thought they were good at math.</p>
<p>But I wouldn’t suggest learning Taylor’s Series and L’hopital’s and whatnot just to place into 1920. If you do have AP Calc BC credit take it, but otherwise just stick with 1910.</p>
<p>1910 is very important. High school mathematics is horrible in its present state. It teaches methods on how to do stuff, but not what you are actually doing. This course was a big wakeup call to many people who got AP 5’s in BC and decided to get an easy A+ by retaking. While I’d recommend retaking if you genuinely want to know more about the mathematics, in almost all cases you should place out and take 1920 instead.</p>
<p>Also @dean5150, you don’t have to do derivatives or related rates, it starts directly from Riemann Sums and Integrals.</p>
<p>As for the median grade being a B, it’s curved to that, as are most intro engineering courses. And you’ll be thankful for that when you get your first prelim back with a mean of 36%.</p>