<p>Since I failed to pass my AP exams, I was wondering what books to buy to review for the exam before I take it. I want to at least pass it to get into 20A+.</p>
<p>So far, the site from UCSD recommends</p>
<p>Just-In-Time Algebra and Trigonometry</p>
<p>and two other college outline for algebra and trig. should I buy the first one to refresh myself, or buy all three? Or some others will do?</p>
<p>Anyone care to give their opinion?</p>
<p>If you’re familiar enough with your high school textbooks, I’d say to stick to those. Redoing your old exams is also a good idea.</p>
<p>I, also failed my AP Calc exam. On the UCSD’s math placement website, it says I don’t have to take MPE if I passed the SAT II’s with a 600 or above. But on the breakdown for AP Calc scores it says a 1 must take the MPE exam. I’m confused. Do I still have to take the test?</p>
<p>Hello, this is a question for those who have taken the math placement test before – is it really a difficult exam? I’m taking it this Friday and I’ve never taken calculus course or the math II subject test, so i don’t really know what to expect. I generally get A’s in my math courses but I for some reason fail at standardized math tests (my sat math score was just 530!)</p>
<p>Also, I’m a chem major, and if i don’t get into Math 20A will it greatly affect my schedule/ other courses i take (such as Physics, etc)? Will I be too far behind if I have to take Math 10A??</p>
<p>Thanks in advance (:</p>
<p>Most of the questions were easy, but there were some hard questions thrown in there. Don’t worry, I didn’t study and haven’t had pre-calc for a year and I managed to get placed into 10A.</p>
<p>I got placed in Math10A!</p>
<p>I took the mock exam posted on the website and only got 43% right 
I must be stupid! Arg!</p>
<p>@Christian Wu</p>
<p>don’t even feel bad, haha, i’m pretty sure i got waaay worse than a 43% on that one.</p>
<p>but we’ll see how it goes i guess. i’m taking mine tomorrow so i’ll post my experience after haha.</p>
<p>ChristianWu, I did pretty average on the pretest/mocktest but then the actual test wasn’t so bad for me after all. Don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>if i’m not mistaken, they told us to check on Monday for our results but i just checked anyways and it looks like the scores are already out??</p>
<p>anyone else’s score out too?</p>
<p>I checked and my score is up too, but I figured it would because it only took one day to score them. I think the lady told us Monday because it’s a weekend.</p>
<p>I thought it was pretty easy, but i guess I have to take 4C to get into math 20A.
Is this going to make me really fall behind in my classes if i have to take a quarter of precalculus??</p>
<p>OMG^^ me too):<br>
WAIT a minute…
So i placed into 10a, but need to pass 4c to get into 20a. CogSci majors need 20a, so that means im taking ALL 3???
I think im going to retake the placement test…■■■</p>
<p>Sorry if this is off topic, but do transfer students have to take placement tests? one of the reasons i was wondering is because i need to go up to calc 2 before i graduate from UC, i am currently at college algebra and my CC would require me to take college algebra, then trig, then pre-cal, if i transfer to ucsd would i not have to take trig and go straight to pre-cal. i was wondering this because trig isnt uc transferable. thanks and sorry if this wasnt an appropriate place to post this :-)</p>
<p>math placement test was super easy. And I’m only in pre-calc. I got into math 10A and 20A. If you just review their test online you should be good. The questions were quite similiar. </p>
<p>Anybody know what series i should take I’m a bit confused. I’m majoring in general bio but want to become a pharmacist…any suggestions?</p>
<p>lover21, you should take math20A for pharmacy</p>
<p>I’m going to be an econ-management science major and later on I might do an accounting minor. I didn’t do really well in AP Calculus AB senior year, I had like a B/C average on most tests. Also, I don’t have to take the placement test because I got a 710 on the SAT Math II subject test. Would I be okay in 20A? IT SHOULDN’T BE TOO BAD RIGHT? If I put enough effort into it…</p>
<p>what do undeclared students take? with AB/BC passed with a 4 and 5 710 on math II C
20A?</p>
<p>so the site says this for me:</p>
<p>Math 20A Placement
Recommend 4C, 20A ok
You should take Math 4C, where you would receive a thorough and structured review of pre-calculus. You may enroll in Math 20A, but, if you choose to do so, you should thoroughly review the pre-calculus topics below.
Math 10A Placement
10A ok
You may enroll in Math 10A with no further preparation.</p>
<p>does this mean im placed in math 20a?
because on marshall’s site that says my placement tests, its placing me in math 10a.</p>
<p>@ chowsx: what website ? did you already get counselor recommendations?</p>
<p>the math placement exam website says that about my score (and i confirmed through email that that is correct).</p>
<p>this site <a href=“Web Login Service - Stale Request”>Web Login Service - Stale Request; (marshall’s site for orientation, i guess?) says im for 10a. i think right now i havent gotten counselor recommendations yet because what they emailed us to do now is fill in our ap scores and check off placement testing.</p>
<p>im not sure who to email about this issue…</p>