Placement Exams

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Placement exams occur during Summer Orientation. There are placements for chemistry and mathematics.

Math Placement[edit | edit source]

Precalculus/Calculus 1[edit | edit source]

lots of trig stuff, very little of conic, polar, and induction

If you pass this exam, you place into Calculus 1. Previous year cutoff has been roughly 30/34.

Calculus 1/Calculus 2[edit | edit source]

Contents covered on the exam include limits, derivatives, and integral shenanigans, also integrating volume and stuff

If you pass this exam, you place into Calculus 2

Calculus 3 or higher[edit | edit source]

written stuff. less than 5-10 people pass this exam every year

have to score very high, make sure you know sequences/series well if you want to pass this one

If you pass this exam, you place into Calculus 3

AP Credit[edit | edit source]

AP Calculus AB/BC exam score of 5 may be considered for your math placement. Anything besides 5 is not counted.

Chemistry Placement[edit | edit source]

place into honors, gen chem = pain

ACS Exam is a very good practice guide.

cutoff is relatively low, in 50s-60s.

usually abt 80-100 ppl per class place into honors