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<p>Context: I only had 8 weeks of chemistry in my whole high school career, tho im doing CHM 1025 over the summer. I never had a class in trig or calc in high school. My junior and senior math teacher did choose select trig and calc topics that lower leveled math students need to be competent in in order to pass this exit exam. Is the following schedule practical for a person with the mentioned abilities?</p>
<p>Schedule:
-CHM 2045 and 2045L General Chemistry
-IDH 3931 science for life
-FOS 2001 online
-MAC 1147 precalc alg + trig
-SLS 1102 Pre-Pharm experience</p>
<p>If you never took a trig or precalc class, I would advise against taking MAC1147. it goes fast and I had friends that had trouble keeping up because most of us has some sort of trig or precal background. Taking trig separately would be a better idea.</p>
<p>I can do trig in my summer term. From my understanding, its 2 credits. Summer B is 6 weeks. Should i go ahead and take 7 credits for summer B?</p>
<p>If you take trig in summer it would probably be better to take precalc alone (not the combo class) in fall because you’ll have a better coverage of the material. From my experience there’s too much in both precalc and trig that you inevitably miss stuff when it’s scrunched into one class, I found this out when I went to calc 2 and 3 and a lot of us were missing some important background material.
I’ve never heard of a math class that’s only 2 credits but I don’t know enough about uf’s assignment of credits yet. The school I transferred from only had 4-5 credit math classes.
What else are you taking summer B? Idk if rushing trig is such a good idea either lol math takes a lot of study and practice!</p>
<p>I was taking intro to chem and some medical humanities for a total of 5 credits. Earlier in this forum, I’ve been told to take college algebra and college trig simultaneously in the fall in place of MAC 1147</p>
<p>I wouldn’t recommend taking trig and pre calc separate. Take them together if you can (MAC1147) I made the stupidity of reading my prerequisites in a rush 2 years ago and only took 1140 not reading that the pre-req. list said MAC1140 AND MAC1105 OR MAC1147… I read the AND as an OR and now I’m stuck taking MAC1140 because of my brief dyslexia moment… I wish I had just taken 1147. Both classes are very repetitive and go over the same stuff over and over… I’m stuck taking 1140 over the summer, and in my opinion this 1140 class is a bunch of b.s.</p>
<p>a bunch of b.s.? D:</p>
<p>LOL i think is a bunch of b.s. basically beause I come from a foreign university where I made all the way thru calc 3 and that’s why I can say this class is b.s. It might help someone who needs to level up in math, but it’s basically a lot of repetition from your algebra classes… but still, once you get o calc 1 you’re going to solve the same problems in what I call “the calc way” instead of the “algebra way” instead of solving a problem in 10 lines, you skip like ten steps and it takes you like 2 lines of paper to solve it, literally. The class works only to clarify and establish some real basic concepts and might be helpful for those who have a math weakness, however, if you’re a fast learner, you like math, or you can put about realistically about 4hrs/week of study into it then I’d say just go ahead and take the mac1147, the worst thing you can ever do as a college student is being afraid of a class. It’s just a class, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>I’m only taking that class this summer and all I do is the homework (every other odd problem in the book), and study the night before the test for like 2 hours max and I’ve been getting straight A’s and it’s been a looong time since took calc 3 (7years -no, i’m not that old, just finished h.s. at a younger age). Anyways, I wish I hadn’t thought about the clep but AFTER the drop w/refund deadline… so yea, to me, it’s pure b.s.</p>
<p>To what extent would you say your high ability in math prior to entering college influence your recommendation that I should do the combo class MAC 1147?</p>
<p>There’s three types of math people: the ones that easily get A’s, the ones that need to study a lot to get an A or B, and then there’s the ones who take a lot of study time in order to get a C… Unless you’re in the third group, I think you should be alright. Having math abilities will definitely make getting an A easier, but is still doable if you study 3-4 hrs a week. </p>
<p>If you don’t have much math abilities you’re always going to have a hard time with math whether is college algebra, trig, or calc; math is one of those things that you either get it or not. You know how good you are with math in general, so if you need a lot of study hours a week, you will need a lot of hours for trig, and then a lot of hours for precalc, might as well spend the same amount of hours studying on mac1147 and be done with the class. </p>
<p>If you’re not sure, or not feel confident to decide you might want to go online and take the math placement test and go from there; just don’t be afraid of the class or the class will get you.</p>
<p>Oh hey I’m doing Pharmacy, too! I’m not taking math but my friend is and she’s also pharm. She’s taking it during fall and she’s only had math up to pre-calc. She was gonna take it during the summer but her advisor said not to because six weeks is a really short time in order to learn all the fundamentals. And trust me they come in handy when you can’t remember the shortcuts ;P</p>
<p>I decided to haul a high school trig book to UF to study from during Summer B XD</p>