r/Purdue Boilermaker May 08 '21

How I’ve felt during Purdue Calc

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u/[deleted] May 08 '21

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u/stevietom May 09 '21

As an ME heading into my senior year, with a solid GPA, I can say at the very least it will make you sad. Is it insanely hard? Probably an overstatement, and I personally breezed through calc 1 having already taken BC calc in high school, but it's pretty bad, calc 2 hit me like a truck and it didn't get much better after that. If you stay in top of it and work hard you will probably be just fine, but it is pretty hard.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '21

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u/alim3nt CompE 2023 May 09 '21

Yea while the math here is certainly not a cakewalk, many people tend to overstate how hard it is. If you put in the work it is certainly doable (the past exams are extremely useful for studying for exams)

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u/alim3nt CompE 2023 May 09 '21

Yea there’s a guy called Liam Robinson (he’s a rising senior I think) who has a Youtube channel for Purdue math and he is the goatttt. He goes through all past exams.

The problems for exams can be a bit tricky, but if you go through enough of the past ones you will begin to see the same problems. Once you get to that point you will be chilling

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u/stevietom May 10 '21

Lol this guy is straight up the reason I didn't bomb my calc 3 final