Wow make up tests. My mark is about mid 80s right now. I just started the Calc part last week. It seems simple so far but it doesnt matter that much since the midterms are pretty much the deciding factor for unis.

jellybro, there is not a single program out there that thinks an 86 is bad. Health sciences may be the only exception, but even then you'll still be able to get in. Don't fret.

Also, if you plan to succeed at university DO NOT rely on similar tests year over year as you imply you've done here. University professors make exams and tests so different from one year to the next that if you do that you will not succeed very much. Focus on mastering the concepts, not mastering the test.

As for this concept of re-tests, I believe they can be a useful tool for teachers (note that I am a teacher in training). The point of tests is to assess one's understanding of the curriculum. I am not of the impression that it matters when in the semester the curriculum is mastered, so long as it's all learned by the end of a course. What I say is that if someone is motivated enough to study harder a second time around, other than laziness there is really no reason not to let them try again. Anyone who says anything to the contrary is probably trying to make a course hard for the sake of it being hard.

ahh what the heck, we had a whole test on Implict Differentiation. Honestly Calculus is easy if you just do your homework, i slacked off at the beginning of the semester and had like a 75... then i realized how awful that was and brought it up to 89 with three tests. Advanced Functions i thought so far was a lot harder.

When is everyone writing their exam? Our vectors exam is divided up into 2 parts, one on Wednesday and one on Thursday, both for an hour long. I really really hope it goes well

We are finishing calculus before mid-terms, and then starting Vectors right after. We got a question on our quiz and it gave us an exponential function with base "e." I can't remember the actual function it was like f[x]= 2e^-x, not really sure there was more to it. The question asked, Find the 1000th derivative of f[x]. They asked this same question for g[x]=cos(2x).

So all I did was take about 4 derivatives of each and then i just found a pattern and wrote an expression for it. A lot of people in my class struggled with this one.

Oh and in my school we are evaluating trigonometric limits using the fundamental trig limit. Are any of you doing that too in your calculus course?

I was just wondering cause some schools aren't doing it apparently.

I was more referring to my school, where almost everyone had a heart attack after the first couple of units. I've always heard from past years that calculus is easy and vectors is killer, but we're not starting vectors till after midterms anyway. As long as my marks don't drop too significantly I'm fine with it. I wonder how vectors will be for my school if everyone here is struggling with calculus...

we started the whole calculus stuff first since my teachers not really into vectors.. couldn't complain with this course as the class average is sitting at 86%

We just had our exam for vectors, which was divided up into 2 parts. I got a 95% on part 1, not sure what I got on part 2 as I just wrote it today but I feel like it was much worse than part 1 for sure.

I'm glad to finally be done with vectors, it was hell, can't wait to start calculus now.
Has anyone else wrote their exam yet? How did it go?

Done with vectors which I thought were grade 10 material. The most confusing part of vectors is the matrix manipulation which isn't difficult if done correctly. However, I did get 70% on one thing because I sort of copied the question wrong... and solved for the wrong thing.

And from what I've seen in calculus so far it's pretty algebraic-y - <3

Right now, my Calc class is finishing up Chapter 5 will all the fun trig stuff -.- I don't like trig :) Anyways, I found that Advanced Functions was useless to me, and I did worse in it than I am doing in Calculus (sitting at a 92 right now). Currently preparing for a curve sketching test- where I completely understand the algorithm/concept, but get very annoyed by the complexity and time consuming nature of curve sketching. Kind of looking forward to vectors. But by far, as long as you at least try for most things, there is no reason why you shouldn't do decently, unless, of course, you have a not so great teacher...