<p>i just have a quick question</p>
<p>how is calc 1 at um? if any1 has taken it it'd be helpful if u could tell me</p>
<p>anything is helpful. class difficulty? curves? hw per night? </p>
<p>thanks =D</p>
<p>any1? 10char?</p>
<p>It’s not that bad. It kind of depends on if you get a GSI who is actually capable or not/can actually speak English. It shouldn’t be hard if you’ve already taken some calc before. But even so, don’t slack off. There’s online homework every couple of days.</p>
<p>Most of the GSI’s are straight off-the-boat Asians who speak very poor English. The HW isn’t hard; the exams are impossible. One of my buddies got a score in the 30 percent range that went up to a C+ with the curve. In other words, his grade over doubled because of how crappy everyone did on it. They make it unnecessarily difficult and then apply a big curve</p>
<p>Homework isn’t a problem, I did it right after class and it rarely took very long (~30-50mins avg). I had to go to the math help room a couple of times to finish it near the end of the semester.</p>
<p>As for difficulty, it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Sure the exams aren’t easy, but not insanely difficult either. However, I took this class last year and the curves were higher than previous years, so it’s possible they made the exams easier. </p>
<p>I had a good GSI who spoke English fine.</p>
<p>What I didn’t like was the group homework you had to do each week. Technically you don’t have to do it, but everyone is assigned to a group so you pretty much have to. Early on, I had a great group but later they had us change groups and I was with some really lazy guys so meeting up for the problem sets became a waste of time and unhelpful.</p>
<p>o i see thanks! and are there exams often? so hw is pretty much not graded/collected?</p>