UCSB Calculus Placement test

<p>I need to do my Calculus Placement test before I go to orientation, but before I take it I would like to know how it will be. I don't want to think it will be one way and be completely different and not receive the score I could have gotten with some review.</p>

<p>In high school I took:
9th - Geometry
10th - Alg 2
11th - PreCalc
12th - Independent Study Calculus (didn't take the AP test)</p>

<p>Honestly, I took the AP Calc AB and BC tests and got put into Math 3C (now Math 4A) As a freshman. I had to take a year of math for med school so I was stuck in a higher level math class with a terrible professor. I ended up taking Math 3C and 5A (kinda like 4A and 4B). If I hadn’t taken the calc test I could have just taken 3A and 3B and they would have been a lot easier and less time consuming.
Unless you’re majoring in something where getting ahead in math would be helpful, I’d say just take the easiest ones.</p>

<p>I am majoring in Physics. I might try to switch to aerospace engineering.</p>

<p>Does anyone know how many times we can take the placement test?</p>

<p>I’m not quite sure, but I know for at least the English placement test you could only take it once.</p>

<p>Yeah I know that, I’ve just heard you can take it more than once.</p>

<p>That would be nice to know. That would make things a lot easier.</p>

<p>I just took it and it was NOT that difficult. I had precalc August-December 2012. I passed the class with a B both terms and just got a 76.67% (46/60) on the test. It’s not as hard as I thought it would be!</p>

<p>Is it just basic algebra and geometry?</p>

<p>Definitely not, more related to trig and pre calc.</p>

<p>I just recived a 50/60 on my placement test. Most of it seamed to be from Alg2 and the Trig part of Pre Calc.</p>