How many people actually retake first-year courses inspite of their decent AP scores?

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<p>Like if you say got a 5 on the Calc BC exam, how many people actually redo it in college for GPA?</p>

<p>I personally don’t feel like doing it again, but I feel like I really ****ed up this test. Like I made a lot of stupid mistakes. On the question about volume, I, for some reason thought it was a disk instead of a washer…and when I evulated the answer, I for some reason thought 9^(3/2) was 81^(1/3)…</p>

<p>I couldn’t finish the one about motion (parametrics) on d), but I knew how to do it. I obviously screwed up on question 6 about the series, I did 6a by just dividing the (cos(x) - 1)/x^2 by the expansion of cos(x), not even sure if I did it correctly because that -1/2 thing just threw me off the whole question. Question 5 to me was the easiest because I actually did all three questions.</p>

<p>I think I did well on question 2, but I think I screwed up on d and c because I was rushing it and thought 10.816 was the max…sigh.</p>

<p>I think I really screwed up the on no calculator part M/C because I didn’t see that many BC topics. Only like 10 at most. And the questions were really different from PR and Peterson’s because all of those questions are conceptual based, there were only like 7 computation questions which kind of p-oed me off because all the questions in my prep book’s practice test was all computation, with only like 8 conceptual ones.</p>

<p>On the calculator part, I only used my calculator on like 3 questions…</p>

<p>I think I left like 13-15 blank, but I feel like I seriously just guessed the rest (which I really shouldn’t have)</p>

<p>So I just want to know, how many of you felt like this (for those who have taken it before) and ended up with a good result? I am so nervous right now that I don’t mind settling for a 4.</p>

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<p>bump 10 char</p>

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<p>I am for my major courses - ones that I feel like I should really know well since each school may teach the courses differently. But for courses like US H or Gov, I will end up opting out of them</p>

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<p>I will opt out of some, skip some to go into higher level - such as some sciences and maths - and retake some.</p>

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<p>I don’t plan on retaking any classes. I personally just want to finish college and get on with my career. For classes like Calculus, History, and English, which are required but aren’t specifically for my major, I’ll just pass them out with APs. I might do more Stat if necessary.</p>