<p>The univ. I'm going to attend in the fall gives conditional credit for calc 141 if a 3 is gotten on the ap calc ab test. I am pretty sure I got at least a 3. What's the general consensus here? It's the same for chem...a 3 gets you chem 101 and a 4 or 5 gets you 101 and 102. I am going to be a chem eng major, so I need to have a strong background in both subjects.</p>
<p>In general colleges only accept 4 or 5 on all AP exams. MIT requires a 5. period. However, were I’m going, the requirements pretty much the same as yours. I took AP Calc BC and probably got a 5. That lets me bypass Calc 1 and 2 (I only needed a 4 or 5). A 4 or 5 on AP Calc AB or 3 on Calc BC lets me bypass Calc 1. For AP Chem I needed a 4 or 5 to bypass General Chemistry 1, but I got a 3 so I have to retake the course.</p>
<p>don’t take credit for calc if you didn’t get a 5… a 4 or lower shows basically no knowledge of calculus so you probably won’t do well in the higher level classes.</p>
<p>Chem, don’t take credit if it was 3 or less.</p>
<p>Last time I checked, you can get a 4 on an AP exam and still know a lot about a subject.</p>
<p>Yeah, but calc is the exception. AB at least</p>
<p>If you’re going to major in chemical engineering, I would recommend taking first semester chemistry.</p>
<p>Calculus you can skip.</p>
<p>I agree with puggly123. 4s still show that you have a good amount of knowledge in a subject. I’ve never received a 5, and I don’t know that I ever will. I have earned quite a few 4s though, and I believe I know a lot about the AP subjects I studied for. A lot of emphasis is placed on essays, and although I am a good writer, the time constraints only give me the opportunity to put down what I can come up with within the time limit. As far as Calculus AB goes, I just took the test and I could very well get a 4 on that exam as well. I wouldn’t expect to get lower than that because I learned the subject well. One of the FRQs threw me off though, so that one question could be the difference between a 4 and a 5. A 4 can show that you know a lot because there could be a question or two that you can’t figure out or that you make dumb mistakes on. Had it been an exam with different FRQs, it could have been a 5 for all anyone knows. I know that FRQs from past years were easier for me to do than the ones from this year.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to say anyone is stupid, but sometimes people just don’t have great teachers. For example, I had a really great Calculus AB teacher. When we all took the practice test, every single kid in the class received a 100 or above - out of 108 (and with grading of the free-response that was not lenient at all). And some had B- in the class. The only exception was the kid with a C who received a high 4, but that was to be expected since he slacked off the entire year. THAT is knowing calculus inside in out. If you don’t really know it inside and out, it may be the result of a poor teacher, but I personally think that for THIS exam only, a 5 is the only one that shows a sufficient knowledge of calculus. On other exams, a 4 or even 3 (maybe a 2, for French!) might do the trick, but I don’t think calculus is one of those.</p>
<p>I had a horrible teacher for calculus, but I’m going to self-study it myself this summer.</p>
<p>I am also thinking of being a physics major and then going into grad school for engineering…so I don’t know if that changes anything.</p>
<p>i had a… not so great… calc teacher so pretty much none of his students get 5’s.</p>
<p>The higher you go in education, the more you realize you do not know. I would say a 5 in BC even shows insufficient knowledge of calculus. It’s just scratching the surface of things that were done centuries ago.</p>
<p>^somewhat true. The AP Calc BC exam skips some of the important topics, such as application of calculus to physics, surfaces of revolution,trigonometric substitution method for integration, integration by tables, some series test, and conics calculus.</p>
<p>However, if nigcrunch was talking of how a 5 in BC shows insufficient knowledge of the subject since it was watered down, he is entirely right.</p>
<p>^^ At my school, we learn all those in class (along with hyperbolic trigonometric functions), and the teacher said they may be covered on the exam. I didn’t know that they weren’t actually covered.</p>