math20e

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - San Diego
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<p>i already took calc3 once at a cc, but i dropped out a month before due to personal reasons...now i'm taking it again over summer, and i get automatic credit for math20c</p>

<p>and i get to take the math20e fulfillment exam</p>

<p>my question is, after taking calc3 at a cc, are you adequately prepared for the exam? or is there stuff that the course doesn't cover?</p>

<p>(i know they have sample problems of the fulfillment exam, but i don't know if that's covered in the calc3 class, because i dropped out a month early)</p>

<p>any input from people who have done this before is appreciated</p>

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<p>Calc 3 at a community college doesn't prepare you for 20E. 20E covers more advanced topics such as Green's theorem, which is a very significant theorem (like the generalized fundamental theorem of calculus).</p>

<p>I took calc 3 at a community college and vector calculus at a community college, and neither fully covered the material in 20E at UCSD.</p>

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<p>darn...thanks though</p>

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<p>actually some calc 3 classes go over greens theorem, line integrals, change of variables, Jacobians, and other math 20E stuff</p>

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<p>the one class i took i was there for everything but green and stoke's theorem... but unfortunately that's what i need...and this class is at a different cc now, and the course description doesn't say anything about the theorems so i don't know...</p>

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<p>dang so you dont have to take a,b,and c? are you gonna be a junior when you go to ucsd? lol</p>

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<p>no
sophomore standing but incoming fresh</p>

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<p>Just to clarify:</p>

<p>My community college ran on the quarter system. I don't know how CCs work that run on the semester system.</p>

<p>Also, there is certainly some overlap in course material. However, in my experience, not everything in 20E was covered in community college.</p>

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<p>do you think it would be more beneficial to just take the course anyways, just to ensure i have a solid foundation for the rest of math? or do you think if i pass the exam i would have good enough knowledge anyways?</p>

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<p>I don't know.</p>

<p>Despite taking it at a community college, I did not opt to test out of the class. I added it as a fifth class, hoping it would be easy and gpa-boosting because I already knew parts of it. You might consider doing something similar. However, part of the reason I didn't test out of it was because I was very rusty in math; I hadn't taken a math class for years. If you took calc3 recently, and you feel confident in your mastery of the material, then maybe it would be best if you self-studied the parts you didn't learn, and then try and test out of it. I heard from a friend who tested out that it was very easy. She got a 50-70% I believe and got credit for the course.</p>

<p>What's your major? If it's something very quantitative, then I would lean more toward taking 20E. If it's something like microbiology, then I would lean more toward testing out of it.</p>

<p>You could try emailing a math department advisor. They can probably advise you better than we can. math.ucsd.edu</p>

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<p>thanks for the advice slorg, i think i'm going to do that</p>

<p>i just don't know if i should do that now, while they are still forming my schedule, or after they come out with my suggested schedule...</p>

<p>also, my major is the new math major, probability and stats</p>

<p>ps i think it's retarded that stats ap counts as only 4 units and only elective units...anyone know why?</p>