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Calculus I as an elective

  • 02-09-2013 09:08PM
    #1
    whateverusay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭


    hi i was just wonderin if anyone has done calculus I as an elective before and if it was relatively easy. bear in mind, i love maths, but i am doing veterinary so it is no way related


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  • #2
    TimeToShine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,880 ✭✭✭TimeToShine


    It's not too bad but the grading is quite rough, I think it's 90% for an A+, 80 for an A and 70 for an A-. There are definitely easier first year electives to pick but if you like maths it should be fine.


  • #3
    se
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 ✭se


    ya the only problem is the grading, other than that, its really really easy for a math lover, its all abt functions(continuity..), differentiations... etc basic really.. !! and its all single variable calculus. !! :)


  • #4
    HistoryKitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 296 ✭✭HistoryKitty


    Hey I did it last year in my course :D Its a lovely module and the lecturer is amazing :D Its quite tough though but if you go to all the lectures you'll be fine :) Make sure to make the most out of the easy continuous assessment marks :)

    Em it deals with functions, basic calculus, asymptotes, continuity. If you like maths i'd definitely do it :) Also look into linear algebra and combinatorics and number theory as they are nice math modules :) Beware calculus 1 means two 9 am starts :O


  • #5
    Victoria.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭Victoria.


    I'm going into science stage 4 now but we did 2 maths modules in stage 1, calculus and matrices and vectors. Matrices and vectors was a much better module. It was better organised, the lecturer was better (I did it in semester 2. there were 2 different lecturers but I didn't hear anything bad about the semester 1 guy) and it was just overall stress free with better grades. If I had to choose a first year introductory maths module I'd go with matrices and vectors for sure!


  • #6
    gline
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭gline


    Victoria. wrote: »
    I'm going into science stage 4 now but we did 2 maths modules in stage 1, calculus and matrices and vectors. Matrices and vectors was a much better module. It was better organised, the lecturer was better (I did it in semester 2. there were 2 different lecturers but I didn't hear anything bad about the semester 1 guy) and it was just overall stress free with better grades. If I had to choose a first year introductory maths module I'd go with matrices and vectors for sure!

    is that still running? you got a coarse code for that module?


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