Prerequisite Information for MATH 1401 (Calculus I)
[Come to North Classroom 4015 (NC4015)!]

If you have MET WITH YOUR ADVISOR and have previously fulfilled at least
one of the prerequisites (ACT-MATH score, SAT-MATH score,  MyMathTest)
for Calculus I, then you only need to get Mike Kawai's (or an administrator on the
6th Floor of the CU-Denver Bldg.) signature to manually register at the
Bursar's/Registrar's Office.

Click here for the prerequisites list.

If you have NOT met any of the prerequisites, then please come to the MERC Lab
and obtain the PREREQUISITE Testing Information.
DO NOT WAIT for the first week of class to qualify for your desired course!
Testing resources become scarce once the semester begins and we are not responsible
if *you* run out of registration time or if seats in the desired section of your course
are unavailable.

The prerequisite test for Calculus I is proctored in the MERC Lab.  If you are
registering for an on-line section of MATH 1401, and you live more than 100 miles
away from the UCD Campus, the please call us at (303)556-8532[MERC Lab].
It is *possible* that we can proctor your exam remotely, but understand that there
may be some incompatibility with workstations that are not controlled by us.  It may
turn out that we will not be able to offer the test at a site nearer to where you live,
and thus, you would need to wait until you show up at UCD to take the prerequisite
test.

Please read the procedures below CAREFULLY if you want to pass the MyMathTest
Prerequisite Test for Calculus I:

• You MUST do the 40-question Inventory FIRST (presumably at home)
  BEFORE you come to the MERC Lab to take the real test.
  Thus, you mus register with us in order to obtain access to the Inventory!
  This requires visiting NC4015 with your UCD Student I.D. card (or your
  letter of admission with your 4-digit PIN in the bottom left-hand corner)
  and a government-issued picture I.D.
  
  
• You may do the Inventory as many times as you like.  All the "help" features
  are turned off while you are working on the Inventory.  If you can score at
  least 75% on the Inventory, then you are qualified to come in and take the
  real test.  We suggest that you score at least 80 or 85% to increase your
  chances of passing the real test the first time.
  WE WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TAKE THE REAL TEST WITHOUT
  DOING THE INVENTORY WORK FIRST.  NO EXCEPTIONS.
  [Hint:  Before we mandated this, 90% of the students failed the real test
  the first time because they thought that they knew how to pass this test.]
  
• The real test has 25 questions.  With a few style changes, these 25 are
  basically taken from the Inventory 40.  You have 90 minutes to complete
  the real test and the passing score is 70%.  We do NOT round up.
  

• You have two attempts each semester to test for entrance to Calc. I in the
  following semester.  If you are currently registered for Precalculus or
  College Trigonometry here at UCD, you are given an extra attempt (it may
  have an expiration date on it, so beware!).

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Last updated:   25 November 2011 by Mike Kawai.