Worth it to take a risk on Calc 2?

[purplecricket]

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I'm so sorry if I posted this in the wrong place.

So I tanked my first year and a half of undergrad and now I'm in the process of serious science gpa repair. It's been going well so far (lots of A's), but I'm concerned with math. So far I've completed stats and got an A, which is great, but I've also done 1 semester of pre-calc (got a C) and 1 semester of calculus (also got a C)🙁 I'm signed up to take Calc 2 next semester. It's not required for my major, but I've been told that doing well in the second part of a course will make up for doing poorly in the first part, and doing well will help bring up my science gpa. The thing is, I'm not confident that I will do that well in the second part of the class and I'm really afraid of getting another C and digging that hole even deeper. Would it be worth taking the risk?

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Take statistics.. you shouldn't risk it. Better to do well in a class which is easy to get an A then a class with a hard class and kill yourself getting an A.

 

[purplecricket]

Take statistics..

Thanks for replying 🙂. Since I already took intro to statistics, do you mean take another statistics class?

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Thanks for replying 🙂. Since I already took intro to statistics, do you mean take another statistics class?

Hahaha.. forgive me. I've seemed to have missed a lot of your post 🙁. As you've taken statistics before and calc 1 I would either take biometrics or simply stop taking matn courses.

 

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

Double post.

 

[chrisp]

probably take stat. if you understood calculus more then you could take calc 2 it wasnt as bad as i thought since everyone said its the hardest of the calc series but if you have a good professor that would help too lol

 

[demayette]

I'm so sorry if I posted this in the wrong place.

So I tanked my first year and a half of undergrad and now I'm in the process of serious science gpa repair. It's been going well so far (lots of A's), but I'm concerned with math. So far I've completed stats and got an A, which is great, but I've also done 1 semester of pre-calc (got a C) and 1 semester of calculus (also got a C)🙁 I'm signed up to take Calc 2 next semester. It's not required for my major, but I've been told that doing well in the second part of a course will make up for doing poorly in the first part, and doing well will help bring up my science gpa. The thing is, I'm not confident that I will do that well in the second part of the class and I'm really afraid of getting another C and digging that hole even deeper. Would it be worth taking the risk?

I you got Cs in precalc and calc 1, I wouldn't take calc 2 because it is more challenging than precalc and calc 1 in my opinion. If you can get an easy prof that teaches it at your school, I think it's worth taking the risk.