<p>Our education system is an abomination.First subjects of 12th grade is integrals and derivates and believe me you don't wanna know last subjects of year.My high schools education allow me to take math2.But our education system is based on memorizing instead of understanding.Because of this I was never successful in school.Also there is lots of missing subjects, never tought many sat subjects in school.Should I take math 2 just becouse my math level is high or take mat1 just becouse I'm gonna do better.If I take math 2 I will have to learn new subjects, high school tought me very high level math but they wasn't able to teach me the basics...</p>
<p>You’re talking about SAT subject tests, right? MIT doesn’t have a preference between math 1 and math 2, so you should just take the test that you think you’ll do better on.</p>
<p>In general, you need to trust what MIT says and not worry about what they might be hiding. It’ll make the whole application process a lot easier.</p>
<p>Wait, in my opinion Math II is almost always better – because I somehow doubt you’d do better on Math I with such certainty – I hear Math I has a much steeper curve, and Math II covers somewhat more advanced stuff and has a much easier curve.</p>
<p>Generally I’d suggest doing Math II if you can, because if you generally know the stuff it’s easy to get a good score.</p>
<p>Right, if you think you’ll do better on Math II then definitely take Math II. </p>
<p>But the OP said “Should I take math 2 just becouse my math level is high or take mat1 just becouse I’m gonna do better.” If you don’t know all the material covered on the math II exam and think you’ll do better on math I, then it’s probably in your advantage to take the math I exam. Another option is to try both, since MIT will just look at the better score between the two.</p>
<p>as I said education system is terrible we actually finished all math1 subject before starting high school becouse of this taken math1 seems like the lazy way to me.The curve thing mathboy98 said definitely makes sense.I’m gonna take both and let MIT decide :)</p>
<p>Right, I just sort of conjectured that no matter what, it’s just a safer bet to study for the Math II – I mean, I didn’t take precalculus ever, and that’s often what helps you most for that test. I just used one of the books. Someone who makes an effort to learn the material in the books easily can manage an 800, provided they know how to work their calculators decently well. I always suggest what I think is the safest approach, though not having learned the material on Math II means doing a little bit of studying. Sure, if you want to go take something without studying at all, probably it’d be Math I.</p>
<p>If I actually believe Math 2 will increase my chance few percent I’m willing to learn all math2 subjects from scratch but I’m not sure that math2 helps</p>
<p>Getting a certain score on Math II isn’t any better than getting that same score on Math I. The point is that it’s easier to get a better score on Math II because of the curve. So lets say you get 4 questions wrong, that might be an 800 on Math II, but a 720 on Math I.</p>