Re:Do the math: too much calculus? (2012)
by dataharry on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @05:01PM
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How do you cheat at Calculus? Asking for a friend.
Re:Do the math: too much calculus? (2012)
by thesimpsons1022 on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @05:30PM
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from the back row comment i think they are either cheating off each other or have some notes written down.
I don't know anything about these people but there's two "good" reasons for this:
* Some colleges don't take certain AP credits e.g. the college I went to didn't take AP Bio credit, so I didn't take the exam for it when I took the class
* Some high schools give GPA boosts for AP classes. For example, an A in an AP class was worth a 5.0 vs a 4.0 in a regular class. Some students may think it's worth it even if they don't do that well
In general I agree with you because my AP Calc class wasn't rigorous or interesting at all. It was "here's how you do X, now do X 100 times for homework and take a test on it".
> A lot of the students in my AP Calculus class had no business being there
Maybe I'm cynical but this was the case at my college Calculus class as well. The entire back row was basically people cheating. There'll always be lazy people in freshman and sophomore courses.