18.01A - Fall 2007
See below for Admission Requirements and a Practice Admission
Exam w/solutions
18.01A/18.02A (first half) Syllabus
(Adobe Acrobat -- pdf file)
Will be posted by Aug. 27
In addition to the textbook (Simmons, 2nd ed.), you will need the 18.01A
Supplementary Notes, which can be purchased at Copy Tech,
in the basement of Building 11, starting Wed. Sept. 5. (These differ from
the regular 18.01 Notes also on sale there by the
addition of 24 pages on Probability.)
Admission to 18.01A
You must present any one of the
following. The records of all students who register for 18.01A
will be checked during the first few weeks; those who
do not present one of these admission criteria will have to drop back to 18.01,
regardless of how they have been doing in 18.01A --
sorry. The reason is that 18.01A omits without a review
most of
the AB topics (roughly, all of differentiation, and elementary integration)
and therefore it is fair to ask that students present evidence
they have already mastered them.
Admissions Criteria for 18.01A
1. A score of 4 or 5 on the AB Advanced Placement test, or an AB subscore of 4 or 5
on the BC test
2. An equivalent score on the A-level or the IB exam.
3. An equivalent grade in a college calculus subject with syllabus comparable to
the AB syllabus. (You must present a college transcript and a copy of the syllabus.)
4. A passing grade on Part I of the M.I.T. 18.01 Advanced Placement exam, given
during R/O week. A practice exam and solutions are given by the
links:
Practice Exam for Admission to 18.01A
(Adobe Acrobat -- pdf file)
Solutions to above Practice Exam
(Adobe Acrobat -- pdf file )
M.I.T. Advanced Placement Exam for 18.01
This exam has two parts. Part I (90 minutes) described above,
covers the AB syllabus. Part II (90 minutes, given immediately
afterwards)
covers certain topics in 18.01 on the BC syllabus, but not the AB
syllabus: linear and quadratic approximation, mean-value theorem,
further techniques and applications of integration, polar
coordinates, parametric equations, L'Hospital's rule, improper
integrals, convergence of certain infinite series (geometric
series, series whose n-th term gets small like the reciprocal
of a fixed k-th power of n, where k is a positive number.)
Part II will not cover the following BC syllabus topics, since
they are not included in 18.01: solving first-order differential
equations graphically and numerically, second-order differential
equations with constant coefficients; ratio test for infinite series.
Note:
If you want to AP 18.01,
you must take both parts of the AP exam, even if you satisfy one of
the other admissions criteria given above for 18.01A.