<p>Just curious. Not a brag session, I just don't ever see statistics on what engineers tend to get on their calc classes and I was wondering if they do as well as physics and math majors tend to do. I'm on the four-quarter sequence, and just finished calc I. If you took the three-semester sequence, say so.</p>
<p>A’s. 10 char</p>
<p>Calc 1 B, Calc 2 A, Calc 3 taking in summer</p>
<p>I’m more afraid of diff eq than anything</p>
<p>A/A-/A in the three</p>
<p>Calc I - C / Calc II B+ / Calc III B- / Diff Eq B-</p>
<p>Calc I and II were not curved. (We had 500 students enrolled in the course (10 sections of 50) and huge classes usually aren’t curved.)</p>
<p>Three semester sequence —> A / B / A- , respectively. I think the A- was a joke because the curve wasn’t even a curve at all. I had kids in my class who could have easily tested out of it but took it for a “GPA booster”. So I think the final averages were curved up a whole 3 points or something… Take them at a CC, it will save you from getting headaches.</p>
<p>Calc I: B-
Calc II:B-
Calc III: A
Diff EQ: A</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t know why I did better with multiple integrals that I did with single integrals either. Differential Equations was one of the most useful courses I ever had. I had the “computational” version of the course where computer projects were like 40% of the grade.</p>
<p>My son has received As in all of his math courses: Calc I, II, III, Differential Equations, Mathematical Statistics, Linear Algebra, Discrete Structures I, II, Foundations and Algorithms. He teaches himself the material for the course before it starts.</p>
<p>My math grades were awful in college my first year. Fortunately grades didn’t matter that much for getting work back in the 1980s. I tell my son that he’s way smarter than I am - I have to go on experience for brownie points.</p>
<p>b in calc 1, b in calc 2, getting As in diff eq and calc 3</p>
<p>calc 1: AP credit
calc 2: A
calc 3: A</p>
<p>Taken during Junior year of high school at another university:</p>
<p>Probability and Statistics: A
Matrix Algebra: A</p>
<p>Taken in college:</p>
<p>Caclulus I: A
Calculus II: A
Calculus with Several Variables: A
Matrices: A
Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations: A</p>
<p>Calc I: B
Calc II:C
Calc III: A
Diff EQ: A
Discrete Math: B
Linear Algebra: A</p>
<p>Could everyone post their major along with their grades? I think that is what the OP was getting at. </p>
<p>As an aside, I find it very interesting that many of you seemed to better in calc II/III than Calc I (and almost none did worse).</p>
<p>Placed out of Calc 1 and 2 through AP credit (got 5s on both AB and BC). Got a B in Calc 3 and a B in Diff Eq. I was probably one of the lowest Bs in Calc 3 and the highest in Diff Eq.</p>
<p>Everybody seems to back up what I’ve heard, that the math classes get easy after Calculus II. I just got my first grade back in calc I, it’s an A, 95%, but there was no curving and the class average was a shocking 60%. About fifteen students.</p>
<p>Well, I guess I’m an exception to that rule. I got a B in Calc 1, an A in Calc 2, and I’m just barely getting a B in Calc 3 at the moment. Just like how it is for you in Calc 1, I cruised through Calc 2 with a 95% final grade while the class average was ~ 65%. I don’t know what it is, but I’m in strugglesville in Calc 3 at the moment! Oh, and I’m an ME major btw.</p>
<p>Calc A: A (AP Credit)
Calc B: A
Calc C: A
Calc D: B- (crazyyyy teacher)
Linear Algebra: B- (same crazy teacher lol)
Dif Eq: A</p>
<p>Quarter System, AE+ME Major</p>
<p>Calc I: A-
Calc II: A
Multivariable Calc: A
Linear Algebra: A
Diff. Eq.: B+ <- just because I screwed up the final >:-(</p>
<p>I was a Computational Mathematics major as an undergrad…with B- in Calc I/II and an ‘A’ in Calc III/Diff Eq.</p>
<p>My only explanations on the grades were that my Calc III prof pretty much “spoonfed” us clear class notes and was generous with the partial credit on exam problems. As for Diff Eq, I had the “computational” version and this particular prof was heavy into computer solutions. By me being one of those hybrid Math/CS types and computer projects counting for 40% of the grade, I could ace the computer assignments and pretty much only needed B- on the exams and still get an ‘A’.</p>
<p>I thought Calc 1 and 2 were significantly easier than 3 and Diff Eq, but then again I took those in HS with a fantastic teacher while my prof for calc 3 was one of the worst I’ve ever had. He’d only use pre-written overheads in class and wouldn’t correct errors we found in them. He would talk in a complete monotone, and it was the first time he taught the class in 17 years. Diff Eq had a much better professor, but I still felt the problems and work was more difficult than what I had done in undergrad.</p>