AP Credits and Course Selection??

VideoPro
Sun, 24 Jul 2011 03:27:32 +0000

I honestly think if you scored well enough on the AP exam, you should try to skip and do some review. Generally the intro classes are pretty competitive and sometimes the professors aren’t as ideal as you’d hope. Furthermore, if it turns out you know everything you learn in class, then it isn’t very beneficial for your learning. If you feel like you barely passed the class in high school and you feel you would not manage a higher level course, then maybe thats a reason to not use your AP credits.

Oh and I am glad that you had the same problem as me when I started because I too did well enough on the exam to skip to Math 125 but was a little unsure. Math 124 is all about derivatives and Math 125 is integration. Calculus BC stuff doesn’t occur until Math 126 so you don’t have to worry. Trust me when I say if you got a 5 on the exam, you should definitely skip straight to Math 125 and screw 124. Even though derivatives aren’t that big of a deal, some of the problems they ask on their exams are really difficult I tried helping my friends because I told them I was in 125 and derivatives shouldn’t be that difficult and the problems they give are way tougher than what is necessary to prove your understanding of a concept.

Oh and I also talked to a counselor when I was having this issue and they simply told me that they feel I should put my AP credits to use unless I felt I was really uncomfortable or unready. Hope this helps.