Should I try to re-learn all of algebra/precalculus within the next 4 weeks so that I can place into calculus and all of the classes that require me to concurrently take calculus, or should I play it safe, staying one year behind and take college algebra and not be able to take calculus until next fall? Is it possible to re-learn everything up to calculus within 4 weeks using something like khanacademy?
Algebra's piss-easy m8. Find an algebra final online or something and see how much you remember.
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>>7715878
dont cram for a placement test that is the stupidest shit i ever heard
>>7716097
4 weeks really isn't cramming
Just do Khan academy
>>7716193
That's probably the best place. I'm surprised nobody has come to this thread explaining how they did this because it seems like a typical thing that someone would do.
>>7715878
I'd lookup a basic precalc syllabus and learn the main topics on that. I'm assuming you also need to know trig right?
>>7715878
You should definitely try to skip that shit
Although taking college algebra really isn't as bad as folks make it out to be. I did it, and it didn't actually put me behind at all (I'll still be graduating in 4 years, or 4.5 if I'm lazy and just do 12 credits for the next two semesters). It does cost a bit of money though.
I dropped out of school the summer before sixth grade. I started with college algebra at the age of 18 in CC, my first math since dropping out years earlier. The most advanced math I remembered was multiplication. Ended up passing with a C. I passed Diff Q, my last Math class, this past Spring.
>>7715878
Calculus is a joke. It's really only one equation [d/dx of x^n = nx^(n-1)] /semester
>>7716978
Eh, you have to remember a couple of things for differentiation but that's usually pretty formulaic. Integration can be tricky.
>>7716833
>I'll still be graduating in 4 years
fucking how that doesn't even make sense
>>7717357
Scratch that, looks like I was wrong about my timeline. Looks like i'll be graduating in 5 if I take it easy, 4.5 if I wreck my shit. If I do it in 5, my last semester will be lame as fuck (less than 12 credits), so I may as well pick up a math or a physics minor while i'm there.
I did however, do a 9 credit semester, and an 11 credit semester along the way, so i'm still convinced that you could get out the door in 4 years even starting from baby math, without too much fuss.
>>7717454
I don't think that's possible with any STEM major.
>>7717459
Why not? I'd be there if I wasn't a lazy cunt and didn't do those 9, 11, and 12 credit semesters, or had taken advantage of a couple of summers where I did fuck all.
I'm not sure how other schools work, but I started off at a community college, a full 2 fucking years away from calc 1. I did baby math 1 first semester, baby math 2 over the summer, college algebra next semester, accelerated college algebra 2 + trig next semester + accelerated chem, and then calc 1 over the summer. I also got an override for "Programming for Engineers" while I was still taking babby math, because I already had some programming experience, and I basically took out all of my humanities requirements in those semesters where I couldn't take physics or calculus. If I had done calc 3 and circuit analysis 1 the following summer, and taken 16 credits the semesters where I took 12 or less, and I would be graduating in 4 years.
>>7715878
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>>7717357
Consider a prerequisite digraph of all the courses you have. If there is no directed path of length 8 that starts at Calc I, then you can easily graduate in 4 years, even without taking summer semesters.
