<p>I am in a sememster school.
What happen, if I have completed only 1/3 physic pre-req in my school? Pysics is a series of course. Do I need to redo the whole year of physic in quarter school (SD or LA or Davis?) or can I do 2/3 quarter of physic classes?
For Davis, it requires only 2 sememters of physics.</p>
<p>It’s all on assist.org</p>
<p>I’ve never really understood why units in a quarter system are worth less than units in a semester system for the same course. For example, isn’t calculus A at a UC the same course as 1st year calculus at a community college on the semester system? Perhaps I am mistaken?</p>
<p>Isn’t the quarter system more difficult because courses move at such a high pace?.. Shouldn’t the units be the same or worth more?</p>
<p>using that logic a class that finishes in a week should be worth more than a class in the quarter system</p>
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<p>ummm okay… but if it’s the SAME (or equivalent) course why should it be worth any less?</p>
<p>anyone know?</p>
<p>I don’t know the answer to your question. Students in the quarter system usually take fewer classes per term–3 or 4 each trimester/quarter–but the hours each week might be the same as the hours per week per course taken by semester students, thus the assumption that less material was covered. Possibly trimester/quarter system students are assigned a heavier workload per hour of class time which results in the same amount of coursework covered as in a semester class; in which case, the trimester/quarter credits should be equal to semester hours. This may be why many trimester/quarter system schools award one course credit per course rather than hours of credit.</p>
<p>If you guys notice- calc for example, 3 quarters= 2 semesters of calc</p>
<p>You dont cover more stuff. </p>
<p>at UCLA 31A, 32B, and 32A = Analytical Geometry and Calc 1 and 2</p>
<p>For physics- at many community colleges physics goes with lab, at the UC level lab is usually separate.</p>
<p>So what you get is community college Physics 1,2,3 is usually equal to
UC physics 1,2,3 + 1L and 2L (so that is 3 lecture courses + 2 lab courses)</p>
<p>Unit wise, for physics for example, at the CC level it is 4 units each (at my cc) so that makes for 12 semester units which should equate to about 18 quarter units</p>
<p>At UCLA physics 1,2,3 pus 2 labs will equal to 19 quarter units (5 for each lecture and 2 for each lab) </p>
<p>technically 1.5 years of physics is then taken during 5 quarters at UCLA (if you dont combine the labs into 1 quarter) and 5 quarters is a bit more than 1.5 years/</p>
<p>Dreamspace, you will probably have to do 2 lecture based physics courses and 1 more lab. </p>
<p>Units in a quarter system are worth 1.5 of a semester system unit. </p>
<p>They dont equate the way you guys think. Look over the actual classes individually. </p>
<p>For UCLA calculus- calc 1 & 2 = Calc 31A + 31B but for Cacl 3 it is equal to 32A and 32B = so 4 UC classes equal 3 CC classes and for all other classes that are equal 1 to 1, you do get more units per class. That is why at UC each class is about 4 units and at CC it is 3 units. But when you transfer you get 4.5 units for each 3 unit course you bring in</p>
<p>thank you malishka!</p>
<p>thanks for the answer, I am afriad I need to do the entire year of physics again!</p>
<p>I’m so glad I have AP credits.</p>
<p>Dreamspace you can just look it up on assist.org and see which ones you will have left to do.</p>