<p>My friend is going into Physics at UChicago and he got a 5 on Physics B and Physics C: Mechanics and a 4 on Physics C: E&M. However, looking at the major requirements it seems that the credit from these exams will not really help at all with his major. It gives 121000,122000, and 123000 credit when a physics major needs 131000,132000, 133000 or 141000,142000,143000 credit. Does this mean that he's not going to get anything useful from his physics exams?</p>
<p>That’s what it means, but U of Chicago also has its own accreditation exam for 141-143.</p>
<p>Not to be the bearer of bad news, but in one of my O-Week adviser meetings, my adviser said something about how people schooled in the US generally didn’t do well on the physics test. That said, I wasn’t really listening well since that part of the discussion was way out of my league. In general, science majors don’t really get a lot of credit for AP science tests. The core is finicky that way.</p>
<p>Ok, I just wanted to know because I told him that he won’t get credit before he even took the exam, but he kept tellling me that he would get some gen ed credit or something for his Physics B test and that the C one would count towards his basic physics… He didn’t really do that much research into it though. Thank you for the clarification!</p>
<p>if he signs up for physics he must forgo ap credit</p>
<p>He would satisfy the general requirements for physics with AP Phys B/C IF he were not majoring in physics. Since he is majoring in physics, his general education requirement is to complete either the 13000s or the 14000s, neither of which can be satisfied by AP credit (see <a href=“http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/pdf/PHYS.pdf[/url]”>http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/pdf/PHYS.pdf</a>).</p>
<p>So yeah, he gets nothing useful for his AP exam.</p>
<p>Thank you! That’s exactly what I told him, but for some reason he wouldn’t believe me (he even looked at it himself and still said I was wrong). So I guess he’ll find out when he signs up for classes…</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say taking the Physics APs were for nothing…the 130s and 140s are pretty heavy duty stuff. AP doesn’t even scratch the surface of those classes, but at least you’ll have some familiarity.</p>
<p>Double 5s on Physics C will get you all three quarters of the 12000 intro sequence, but the 12000s don’t count for physics majors.</p>
<p>I understand that Physics C E&M is probably less advanced than The U of Chicago E&M,because it has no vector calc. But how much harder could their Newtonian mechanics Class be than physics C mech.</p>
<p>I’m sure they could make it a lot harder. Mechanics is pretty versatile in what they could go over. And I didn’t mean to say it was pointless taking the exam, but he was being so careful to not take exams that would not get him credit so that he could save money. Then $240 did not really do anything…</p>