<p>Hello everyone, I have my Rutgers math placement test this Saturday.
Do I really have to study? I'm in Calculus BC and a straight A student with an 800 math SAT score.
Also, I'm going to be in engineering. What topics are there?
Tell me about it, people.</p>
<p>just to be safe-- go over your precalc notes. you should be fine though, i found it way easier than the SAT.</p>
<p>Donāt study. Donāt waste your time.</p>
<p>You still have to take the placement exam even with an 800 SAT math and the fact that you are in Calc BC?</p>
<p>Damn I hope I donāt have to take any math placement exam since I just finished Calculus I at a community college with an A.</p>
<p>my daughter reported the first half was middle school math - fractions & decimals. She felt it insulted her intelligence (she got a 3 on BC AP test & AB subscore). Since youāre still taking Calc thereās no way around it, but itās not worth stressing over. </p>
<p>Iām going to write the administration and politely suggest that getting a 3 on either AP Calc test should exempt one from the placement test and they should be placed directly into Calc.</p>
<p>The idea of placement testing is just to see what you know beforehand. Thereās no need to study. Your work in high school all year long is sufficient review.</p>
<p>The highest level math on the placement test is precalculus. Itās to test whether or not you know everything you need to know to do well in calculus. Just take the test, if you donāt place into calculus then you probably need a review. </p>
<p>If you got an 800 SAT it should be no problem for you though and your Calc BC can be used for calculus credit.</p>
<p>What kind of concepts are tested on the Math Placement test? Is it relatively easy because I forgot a lot of the algebra 2 stuff from last year lolā¦</p>
<p>it was a lot of logs and really simple word problems. if you think you forgot some of the concepts, skim over your old papers. </p>
<p>(to everyone) even if you think the test will be easy because you are taking ap calc, just be careful. iām an engineering major, and a few of my friends messed up on the placement test and were placed into precalc. if you donāt ap out of calc or donāt have community college credits, you have no choice but to start with precalc at rutgers. the test is easy, but take your time because itās an important exam.</p>
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once they receive this transcript and give you the credits youāll be placed out of calc I. you might want to call the admissions office and verify with them.</p>
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<p>If Iām not majoring in engineering or another science that requires Calculus, should I even bother with PreCalc/Calc, and just take an easier math? Iām going into Journalism after I have 15 credits and completed expository writing. I heard that PreCalc/Calc are some of the most failed courses at Rutgers.</p>
<p>I donāt think you would want to fool the placement test (math portion), because it just puts you in a bad position. First, because if you are in engineering, and gets placed in Precalc, you are F***ed, alot of makeup work to do. </p>
<p>Second: If youāre NOT an engineering major, fail to perform to the standard they expect, and get placed in a lower math level class such as college algebra, I HEARD, you do not get creditsā¦for taking anything below Precalculus. You do get credits, but they are E-Credits or something, they do not count towards graduation. So itās likeā¦you took it for nothing.</p>
<p>xu701zero -you may not get credits for something, but you didnāt ātake it for nothingā. You go to college to learn; in that respect, taking any course is good, whether or not you get 3 credits for it. </p>
<p>Everyone does not enter college with a 4.3GPA and 2400 SATs. Everyone does not continue in their first choice of a major, keep a 3.8, and graduate in 4 years. There are many paths to success and different people will choose different routes. </p>
<p>You need to be a bit more optimistic!</p>
<p>I said if you fool the test. Obviously the person who does that have no intention to take it seriously and probably knows his math well beyond the test standard. So for those that think itās a joke and get screwed over by it, and trust me there are plenty of those, it will be one of those class that you learn nothing in. Because you already know.</p>
<p>I was also BC student with 800 on Math II. Test is laughably easy, its just basic precalc. Look at logs once if youāre worried, honestly its a cake walk</p>
<p>Are there a lot of problems involving factoring polynomials or graphing?</p>
<p>I finished my first year as an Engineering Freshman. When i took the placement exam on the only engineering students day, we only were required to take the precal section for the math and skipped the algebra. I hear the algebra is easy. For the precalc, it depends on your knowledge of Log functions and exponential functions. If you do not get those questions right, you will be placed in the 1 semester precal. If you bomb the whole precal, then you have to take the 2 semester of precal which doesnt allow you to take physics or chemistry first year. If you got a 800 on SAT you are good. Just make sure you review the Log functions/exponential functions. Good Luck.</p>
<p>I am also going to be an engineering major but I missed the two āEngineering Onlyā test dates. Can I sign up to take the placement test dates on a āregularā date with the all of the other majors? I am also in Calc BC right now btw.</p>