NYU Tandon Placement Testing

Colleges and Universities A-Z New York University
1

I’ll be a freshman at the Tandon School of Engineering this fall, and was wondering what the placement test was like. I found one example here:

http://www.math.poly.edu/courses/sample_diagnostic.pdf

but virtually no other info about the contents of the test or how to prepare for it etc. From that one example test, it seems like it does some basic algebra, trig, and geometry then moves onto easy/medium/hard calculus, but since I’m an international student who was taught what people consider a “weak” mathematics curriculum, almost all of the parts from page 6 of that example onwards is foreign to me.

I assume that people from other countries who maybe too AP or IB or something similar would have a better knowledge of calculus, and I was wondering if anyone had any online websites or specific topics or sub-topics of calculus to recommend learning before this test.

Thanks!

2

@SpicyRamen I am unfamiliar with whether or not there is a correlation, but Khan Academy is a very helpful online “school” where you can easily review old topics, and learn new ones before taking the placement exam. I believe most freshmen at Tandon start at Calculus 1. I have taken both Calc1/2 in high school, but plan on taking them both as a freshmen, since it is difficult to weigh whether or not all of the material was covered correctly in high school.