<p>I'll be attending CAS this Fall and I'm curious about the Chemistry and Math placement exams. How difficult is the Chemistry? How difficult is the Math? Does the Chemistry and Math contain material beyond AP level?</p>
<p>Also, instead of taking the Placement Exam, can I use my AP credit to enter more advanced/honors classes?</p>
<p>Thanks for the input.</p>
<p>The Chemistry placement exam was not at all as hard as I expected it to be. It is possible to place out of the General Chemistry course into Organic, but if you are pre-med, I would not recommend it. As for the actual placement test, some of the tests (i.e. biology) require that you achieve a certain AP grade to take the test. I don't believe this is the case for Chemistry, but you would still need approval from the department (i.e. Dr. Cutler) to enter Organic. If you are simply looking to place into the Honors General Chemistry sequence, then you would need to take the Honors Chemistry placement test, and score reasonably high.</p>
<p>The math placement test can be bypassed by having AP Calculus credit. If you do not, the test should be no problem. If I remember correctly, it was only 10 questions, taken for an hour. Moreover, the level of difficulty was not very high if you have taken up to Calculus in high school. So it is my understanding from experience that the material on the placement tests do not go beyond AP level. Hope that helps.</p>
<p>How about the financial accounting and marketing placement tests? From my understanding, these two tests are for only transfers.</p>
<p>I'm actually a bit confused about the placement exams. I took chemistry in high school and suffered a bit with it (it's the toughest course at my school and the teacher is extremely strict), so I don't think I want to take it again in college. However, I don't want my high school chemistry years go to waste, so should I still take the chemistry placement exams? From what I understand, the placement exams don't give you college credit for what you already know, they just put you in certain classes. I know I'm not going to get credit for my AP chemistry scores but I have yet to find out about my IB chemistry scores, so if I get a 5-7 on that test, will I still have to take the chem placement exam or will I get college credit for it?</p>
<p>Also...in my IB Calculus and Statistics math class, we only learned calculus up to derivatives and integrals....should I still be taking the math placement exam, or is it understood that I'll just be taking calculus as part of my courseload this year?</p>
<p>Thanks for your help!</p>
<p>That's right. You won't receive college credit if your chem scores aren't high enough. If you have the course load for calculus, you won't have to take the placement test. I had AP scores in BC calc to show to my adviser, and I was placed into higher level calculus without having to take the quantitative math exam. If you don't want to take calculus next year, you can either send NYU your AP scores in calc (given they are high enough), or take the placement test to opt out of the MAP math requirement.</p>
<p>Do we have to take calculus? I've looked through classes for vairous departments, but I can't really find info on that. Is quant. math another name for calc, or...?</p>
<p>No, unless it's a requisite for your major. Quant. reasoning is the math course required by MAP, but you don't have to take it if you're taking calculus.</p>