Math Qualifying Basic Exam?

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<p>Anyone have any recommendations of how long to prepare/how to prepare? Any courses I should have taken previous. I'm a transfer student interested in taking it my first quarter (if admitted) to UCLA. My intended major is Math/Econ. I've completed the Calc Series, in progress for DE and Lin Alg, and have not taken Discrete and will be unable to until my first quarter.</p>

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<p>Wait until you take 115AH/B and 131AH/BH, otherwise it will be very difficult to pass. Questions from the Basic exam have been used on our final and midterm in 131BH. Why would you be taking it for math/econ though?</p>

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<p>The graduate qualifying exam for the Scholars Program? You’re supposed to take 115AH, 115B, 131AH and 131BH. I don’t think 61 is a requirement. You could probably take the test in the spring, but it would probably take another two years to get through all the requirements.</p>

<p>I wish the Math Department would work on updating the website. It’s the most informative department website I’ve seen, but they’ve been making changes to various programs and a lot of the information is out of date. Does anyone know anything about the new Merit Track?</p>

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<p>What’s this merit track you speak of? I finally (submitted week 2, accepted week 11) got approved for departmental honors? Is that it?</p>

<p>Anyway, a lot of the top students don’t pass this basic exam. It’s really hard. If the average really hard test was talc, this would be a diamond.</p>

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<p>[Merit</a> Track in Mathematics](<a href=“Undergraduate Program | UCLA Department of Mathematics”>Undergraduate Program | UCLA Department of Mathematics)</p>

<p>When I first saw this I looked at the url to make sure I was still on the UCLA Math Website. Math 97? Honors lower divs? Encouraging people to take the Putnam? Looks like a good idea though, even if I have no idea what 97 is.</p>

<p>I also found this page: <a href=“http://www.math.ucla.edu/ugrad/courses/topics.shtml#calculus[/url]”>http://www.math.ucla.edu/ugrad/courses/topics.shtml#calculus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>It looks like it was written in 1997.</p>