I failed my placement test for math. I was in honors and AP Math classes throughout high school so I don’t know what is wrong with me. I know I should have tried but I was sick and just wanted the test over with. I calculated that if I only got a certain amount wrong I would end up with a decent score so, I left a few pages blank. I know it was dumb of me and that I should have given it my best regardless of how I was feeling. I am paying for my education after all. I think it was because I left the long but easy section blank that I’ve been placed in Computational Skills which is the lowest of the low. And I don’t know what to do. I will get an easy “A” but for a person who wants to transfer to the Business School - that requires Calc 1 at the very least - idk what I will do. Should I email the Math Department or just ace this class and ask the Professor to get me outta there? Or will I have to take Elementary Algebra, College Algebra and Pre Calc, etc because of the results from a Placement test? It’s not fair how an online test defines the next 4 years of our college life. I know I was an idiot for being so lazy but what did I do to deserve this? Plz help
Talk to your advisor.
A question that answers itself.
Except that I don’t think it was just laziness- I think there might have been (to put it kindly) a touch of over-confidence: your assumption that you were so good at math / that the test was going to be so basic that you didn’t really need to put your back into it. Oops…
Agree with @Empireapple: contact your advisor asap. Haven’t classes already been going for a week? Have you talked to your prof? Irl, profs tend to want students to be in the right level.
(also, if you took AP math, you have definitionally taken some calc- did you get a 4 or a 5 on the exam?)
To answer your question, what you did to deserve this was being an idiot. Do what empire apple mentioned.