<p>^And then you use L’Hospital’s to evaluate the limit for an indeterminate form, but you won’t get that until Calc :)</p>
<p>Anyways, colleges would really rather you have taken Physics prior to admission and it looks good on admissions to engineering schools. It’s very hard to understand calc-based physics when you haven’t even had algebra-based physics. Especially for MechE’s. I’m a ChemE and the first thing the dean of engineering asked me when I asked to switch (I was admitted as a BA) was whether I’d taken high school physics.</p>
<p>Lol yeah, if you find yourself using L’Hopital’s rule on an SAT problem, you’re probably overthinking it. But if it’s a valid solution, then it works :)</p>
<p>For the top schools that require them, subject tests do matter but they’re usually not the critical factor. Some CC’ers say that a good subject test score could “make up” a weak grade or score elsewhere, I’m not sure how true that is.</p>
<p>Subject Test scores matter. They’re just another standardized test that schools can use to compare you to other applicants. The only place where I would see it being useful for the school would be for engineering students. We have a very specific set of requirements we have to fulfill before entering a school of engineering and if that school sees that an applicant has a low physics, chem, or math subject test score, then admissions would probably try to dissuade that student from pursuing an engineering degree. At least they’d talk to the student to make sure he/she can handle the coursework.</p>
<p>Thanks guys! Quick question: I’ve been in my review book and is your calculator supposed to be on degree or radian mode? like for sin/cosine problems, is the answer always in which one? </p>
<p>And for just plain graphing and math and matrixs without the tangents/sin/etc does it matter which mode? :)</p>
<p>It depends on the format of the question being asked. Look at the format of the multiple choice answers. If they have the degree sign, then you should be in degree mode. If not, then radian. </p>
<p>It doesn’t matter what mode you’re in if you’re not dealing with trigonometric functions.</p>
<p>Generally, if there is no degree sign, then you should be in radians.</p>
<p>However if you are in radian mode and you have to compute sin 55°, you don’t have to switch to degree mode – you can just evaluate sin (55pi/180).</p>