<p>Hi
I have a question for the engineers or CS students who have taken 225 after 125 and 126. How impossible is this course? Do they have study sessions at the Viterbi help program specifically for this course? Is it the same final no matter which professor you have?<br>
Any insight greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>I’m not in engineering/CS, but I’ll try to pitch in a but. I think most of my engineering friends have considered 225 to be much easier than 126 is, so perhaps there is some truth to that? I personally did 125, skipped 126, and went to 225, and found it easy… though again, I’m not in engineering/CS, so that might not be so applicable. :)</p>
<p>As for finals, I know that 125 and 226 classes take the same final as all other 125/226 students (respectively), but I’m not sure about 225, as I took it in the summer and there was only one class available. Hopefully someone else can enlighten you on that. Good luck!</p>
<p>I took 226 last semester and the final was different for each professor.</p>
<p>Really? I took it last fall and was under the impression that the finals were all the same… then again, that was according to a friend, who might have been mistaken. :)</p>
<p>Look at ratemyprofessors.com and see if any of the Math professors teaching the course are listed.</p>
<p>I took 226 first semester freshman year and 225 second semester. 225 (Linear Algebra/Diff-EQ) isn’t really related to 226 (Calculus III). I think for 226 each professor had their own final (my friend with a different prof had different questions than i did anyway). Then 225 i don’t know, but i assume they’re different tests too. Just take the classes and do the best you can. They’re definitely no cakewalk, and they’re hard as hell if you don’t take them seriously, but if you study hard for the midterms and finals you’ll do fine. For perspective, I got an A- in 226 and an A in 225 and I didn’t go to lectures a vast majority of the time (my record is 3 months straight in 226), but i studied like none other for the exams. Good luck!</p>
<p>You can usually tell which classes have a common final, by looking at the schedule of final exams (in the schedule of classes)</p>
<p>If a class is listed under “exceptions”, then often it is because that class offers a common final. </p>
<p>It’s an “exception” because then they would want every section to take the final at the same time, so no section can learn in advance what’s on it.</p>
<p>(this is just a useful trick, not a surefire thing - no guarantees about a common final or not!)</p>