Should I skip U0 courses if...

johnnyhayek
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:58:52 +0000

Hey. I am entering McGill as a U0 student, however I feel that I can skip a few U0 courses by taking McGill’s placement exams. I know most of Calculus 1 and 2, but looking at their exams, I have never heard of things such as cosh(x) and tanh(x) and Intermediate Value Theorem, but I can still pass most the exam because I know most of them. It’s these little things that might appear somewhere in more advanced courses with me having no idea about them. And I really wanna start advanced courses ASAP instead of having to repeat things I’ve already done.

So, do you think I should just try to pass the placement exams even though I might skip a few things in the process? Or should I take these courses just for small details like these?