<p>I really am not studying enough in math :(</p>
<p>Calc I: B-
Calc II: currently taking but probably going to get B or B+ if I study harder now…</p>
<p>Planning on MechE major.</p>
<p>I’m glad to see that I"m not the only person who’s getting lower than A’s in calc that plans on going into engineering.</p>
<p>Yeah. It takes a semester or two to get aquainted with engineering life. I am a sophmore mechanical engineering major and I still don’t think I have truely mastered how to effectively study. I think I am more concerned about getting the “A” than actually learning the material, rather I would just learn how to do the HW instead of the concepts. It’s a hard habit to shake because taking the time to learn the concept fully usually results in a lower grade the first semester because you may become overwhelmed with all of the classes your taking and all of the HW due. I think next semester when I get into the meat of what I am interested will I try that way. Until then I am going to continue memorizing formula’s instead of the derivations.</p>
<p>Calc II and III in particular are notorious for being weed out classes. They are not designed for everyone to get an A. However, I will say that knowing the fundamentals of calculus will be important if you plan on pursuing engineering at the undergraduate and graduate level. If the main concepts are not clear to you now, it will likely come back to haunt you.</p>
<p>Well I might be screwed lol…not funny</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>The main concepts aren’t very difficult. We’re talking integrals and derivatives, pretty basic ones too. When you come across equations that were derived by complex calculus and diffeq in your engineering classes, at least at the undergraduate level, they will usually break it down to a simple formula that only requires basic knowledge. Hell, if you made it through your calc classes with a D you should still have learned the basics.</p>
<p>well then
calc I : AP calc AB : 5=> passed out of
calc II : ditto ^^ (wanted to take this class to get an easy A but college of engr wouldn’t let me)
calc III : will take either spring 2010, summer 2010, or fall 2010.</p>
<p>Calc 1( in high school AP)- B Got 5 on exam so tested out for college.
Calc 2(at RPI)- A
Currently in Diff EQ with a high B.</p>
<p>Just curious. What is calc 3??</p>
<p>I think it goes:
Calc 1: Single variable calculus-differentiation (AP Calc AB)
Calc 2: Single variable calculus-integration (AP Calc BC)
Calc 3: multivariable calculus</p>
<p>Wait why is everyone displaying letter grades? Is that what you guys usually get in University? I thought letter grades were only given up to HS?</p>
<p>Letter grades most definitely are given to university students. How else would they calculate GPA? A few schools, such as MIT, don’t give letter grades for the first semester or two, but that is about the most extreme case I have heard at a major school. There may be others, but it isn’t common. Letter grades are still the norm for college classes.</p>
<p>Really? </p>
<p>In my school (University of Washington), you just get a GPA at the end of the class. So if you aced it (100% for some professors), you get a 4.0. And so on…That’s why it’s extremely difficult to get a cumm. GPA near 4.0. Because you really had not only do very well, but nearly perfected in all your classes. </p>
<p>Does that mean my School’s style of GPA deflates GPAs?</p>
<p>^Maybe, or maybe just keeps a low standard deviation. Depends on what the average GPA is.</p>
<p>Yeah I don’t know about that. To be honest the math/science classes are mostly curved. And I think the avg. GPA in them is 2.8-3 depending on the class. But many professors (especially in non-math/science classes) follow the 97-100 = 4.0, 96 = 3.9, etc. thing. But some math/science professors do that too. </p>
<p>But I’m actually very surprised that letter grades is considered the “norm”. I thought “GPA” grades for each class was the “norm” for universities. Very surprised indeed.</p>
<p>How is assigning a GPA directly to your grade that much different than using letter grades? If anything, it is more accurate because you get more points for a high B than a low B and fewer points for a low A than a high A. Really, it is just taking the relatively discrete scale that is letter grades and making it more closely approximate a continuum, but the concept is the same.</p>
<p>Yeah I understand that. I was just saying I didn’t know letter grades were the “norm” after HS. They all stopped after HS. Not even any comm. colleges gave out letter grades, it was all GPAs.</p>
<p>Well maybe it is a State of Washington thing. Every school I visited for undergrad and grad school used letter grades along with pretty much every school that any of my friends go to.</p>
<p>Well anyways back to thread topic (converting to letter grades):</p>
<p>Calc I & Calc II (5 on BC exam)
Calc III: A-
Adv. Calc: A
Matrix Algebra: A-
Diff. Equations: A</p>
<p>Math/CS double major</p>
<p>Cal1: B
Cal2: A
Cal3: A
DE: A</p>
<p>DE was easier for me than the Calc Series. But it all depends on you.</p>
<p>Calc 1: B (AP exam…i wasn’t actually in an AP class, I was in a Calc Hns class in high school and I just took the exam to see how I’d do and I placed out of it)
Calc 2: B (worst professor ever, worked my ass off and still couldn’t get an A)
Calc 3: Currently enrolled and have an A,
taking DiffEqs next semester followed by LinAl.</p>
<p>So far just Calc 1 A :)</p>