<p>I was wondering if anyone can give me some advice. </p>
<p>I'm trying to take MATH 31A Calculus through UCLA's extension school. I took the MDT but I didn't get a passing grade. You're required a 36/60 and I got a 29/60, and so the professor recommended that anyone who scored below a 36 enroll in MATH 1 PreCalculus, but it's only "highly" recommended but not required.</p>
<p>I didn't know what was going to be on the placement exam until right before the class, so I didn't get a chance to study. I'm sure if I did study I would have done better, considering I couldn't remember any of my trig functions (e.g. tan0 = sin0/cos0 or cos/sin0 ???), and I probably would have been faster at answering questions.</p>
<p>So, what I'm asking is, should I stick it out and take calc, or should I go with the professor's recommendation and take precalc instead. I've actually taken precalc and calc before, and I remember when taking calc the last time (though it was several years ago) the class consisted of mostly limits, derivatives, anti-derivatives, the chain rule, etc, but we really didn't use much trig or much of anything in precalc anyway.</p>
<p>Of course it would be safer if I took precalc instead of calc, if I didn't score well on the placement exam and I can't remember much of precalc.</p>
<p>But my dilemma is, if I do switch to precalculus instead, it will not only take up one whole tri-semester, but it will wreck my whole schedule for this semester requiring me to switch another class that I'm also taking, and wasting my Wednesdays. I'm taking MATH 31A as a prereq for another math course, and if I take precalc instead, I'll have to wait all the way till next fall to take the class I really interested in taking.</p>
<p>So, if anyone has an experiences with MATH 31A and the MDT, or this kind of thing at all, I'd appreciate your advice a whole lot, thanks.</p>