Do you think u will pass this year's Calculus exam? How hard have ur teachers emphasized such subject???  I would like to hear opinions.
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I took the test about 3 years ago and passed with a 4. Although that isn't a perfect score, I was well prepared so I didn't have to kill myself studying solo. If your teacher has a good pass record for previous years, you should be ok.
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I would definitely take the class over....if you plan on doing a BSc in University, and continuing with Calculus, you really have to be comfortable with the material. I personally didn't take Calculus in University but many of my friends did. A lot of those who had 90+ averages in Precal and Calc in highschool ended up either failing or barely passing Ist year Calculus in University (which shows how difficult it gets in University). So if you just barely got a B- in Precal, you should definitely take it over again to prepare yourself for highschool and University Calculus.
367290
LMAO!!!!! that is awesome!!! i hate my math teacher....im gonna do that sometime!! thanks!! but, yes, that probably would annoy him!! he gets easily annoyed it annoys us lol!!! this will be great!!\n\nhave a great one!!
613253
I had poor marks for mathematics in the 10 th std.But still I chose mathematics because I didn't like biology.Turned out to be the best decision I made.Because there was this fabulous teacher in 11th who explained everything about maths.I got full marks for math in 11th and 12th.(she gave tutions)So I think it totally depends on the teachers.They can make you hate or love the subject.Make sure you have good teachers or get good tution on the subject you choose.
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The only advice i have learnt about education is that unless you have a will power to do it, there is no way you will succeed.  You need to have the stimulation that this is the course you want to do and this is the career i want to be and no matter what happens I will pass the course.  You have a relatively good chance of passing in computer but mathematics alone cannot determine.
513486
hey well look i was not so good in math myself but i started to get some help and started 2 ask more??? and now am passing my Adv Alg with Trig with a  B .... Hope to hear from u soon good luck
320516
You won't be in the class forever. Just do your work now, and you'll forget all about it later on. (That's how I got through trig!)
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Hi utkarsh teri eng se pata chalta hai what could be ur level.\nanyways..\nu can take K C Sinha books, S L Loney books, and I A moron(i dont rem it exactly, may be its I E Moron ) for Calculus.\nFor Physical Chemistry \n1) sarin and sarin\n2) just that i remembered many but now its not comming to my mind.\ni hope that books be useful to u.
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"just need to memorize all the formulas and keep practicing maths even if u dont get it... it helps in long run.."\n\nThat is terrible advice. Do not listen to that. That may be a way to pass math classes, but it is not a way of understanding math. (I refuse, to this day to memorize the quadratic formula) I guess it depends on what exactly you are struggling with. Algebra is probably the one that gets a lot of people, and once you don't understand that, you're kinda screwed on calculus & all others that follow.
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First off.......I am such a language/English/literature person. But in college I had to take a statistics class. I was scared to death because I just so don't have a mathematical mind. I loved it! The teacher was amazing......and related to each of us on  such a personal level. The hilarious part was that it was one of those huge lecture type classes with over 200 people. Yet, she had this way of making it seem like she was talking straight to you. We would all be working problems and laughing and poking fun at our silly mistakes instead of feeling like we were losers for screwing up. Her tests were monstrously hard, but I ended up with an "A" in the course. Shows you what amazing teaching skills mixed with personable skills can do for students. I loved this question......I'm so glad you asked it. I haven't thought of her in so long. I really should go find her and tell her thanks sometime!
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I am a math major so I have taken every math class. Start with Elementary Statristics...it is not that bad mostly pie and bar graphs for the first half of the semester.
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I am also preparing for the AP Calculus Exam in 2006 and I can tell you that the points that I saw emphasized most in taking practice former AP tests were solids of rotation (disc, washer, and shell), the fundamental thereom of Calculus (what integral means), U-substitution, derivative rules, Riemann sums, speed, linearization (finding the slope of the tangent line),  volume of known cross sections, concavity and inflection points, the area between two curves, differentiability and continuity, local and global extrema (critical points and end points), implicit differentiation equations, trignometric derivatives, the rule of exponential growth (like volume increasing at a rate proportional to the radius), average value of a function, optimization, and related rates.  I know that is a lot but I have taken 5 complete practice AP tests (former tests) in class since February and all of these concepts were reccuring.
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Haha, I had that for 3 years when I was in high school.  The presentation of the problems are too PC for me, but the actual math concepts they taught were good.  But most people in IMP math hated it, and tried to get bumped up into the more traditional geo/trig or algebra.
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I'm not the teacher, but when I took Algebra 1 in 7th grade (the double advanced class), everyone turned in their homework regularly, and only on a few occasions did people forget it. Everyone passed the class with at least an 85% average and went on to Honors Geometry for 8th grade. This might just be because we were the smartest Algebra class of the school since we took it so early, but I hope this helped.\n\nNo one made F's.
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Wow, I'm so not going to pass this test. Even though i've been studying all weekend long!! *although...that doesn't quite make up for the lack of studying during the entire school year...* hahahah.
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It's really not for me to decide because i'm naturally good in math but i think you should continue becasue for example in my school, they require you at least take pre cal. but, ultimately it's your decision and yours alone. so good luck with whatever you pick. if you're choosing to go on, you can get a tutor if you're really bad.
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I started writing this out myself, and I found a great answer, much better than any I could give you. Here are a few quotes, and the whole article is at the URL noted in the sources.\n\n"The importance of calculus is that most of the laws of science do not provide direct information about the values of variables which can be directly measured. In other words, if you are lost, then physics will not help you find your way home, because there are no laws of physics that provide direct information about position ... many of the most important principles in science are rules for the way variables change. For instance, physics tells you how velocity will change in various situations -- i.e. it tells you about acceleration.\n\nThis is why it's important to have a mathematical way of talking about change. That's why you see the concept of the derivative used throughout science -- in physics, chemistry, biology, economics, even psychology. \n\n...\n\nThe primary importance of calculus in the hard sciences is that it provides a language, a conceptual framework for describing relationships that would be difficult to discuss in any other language.\n\nWhat is worthwhile for students to gain from a calculus course is the ability to read books that use the language of calculus and, at least to some extent, follow the derivations in those books. Unfortunately, being being proficient at the sort of [garbage] skills required to get a good grade in a calculus course is not a lot of help in this respect.\n\nI tell my calculus students that their grades are probably not a very good indicator of being able to do well in future courses. What's more important is whether they make the effort to follow the reasoning given in class and in the text. The most important part of the course (at least when I teach it) is the part that's never tested on."\n\nI *like* this guy.