WHAT'S A CALCULUS TEST LIKE AT MIT? | by an MIT student
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- Hiya! I'm Kylie, and I'm a sophomore at MIT who was accepted into Harvard, Stanford, MIT, and Caltech. This video takes you right into the heart of MIT calculus tests. Enjoy~!
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So an MIT Calculus test is basically like a Calculus test anywhere else....
Im honestly genuinely surprised that this test is probably slightly easier than our one as I always thought MIT is supposed to be very difficult, I guess it gets harder later on?
@@gertjan3329 classes tend to not variate in difficulty. It’s harder to pass/get an a in a course if the bell curve contains the smartest in the country. :)
@@ceciliadejesus328 Ah that's fair, but also very strange to me as in the Netherlands grades aren't based on any bell curve.
@@ceciliadejesus328 So I guess we could say the MIT is among the easiest engineering schools in the world
I'm very surprised. Seems like that the calculus tests here on the Federal University of Goiás- UFG ( Brazilian university that no-one knows about ) are harder than MIT tests LOL
Lol I guess a lot of people thought MIT would have some weird version of Calc that no one else has seen before. There’s only so much you can do in Calc 1 & 2. Anyway, props to you for posting your scores online!
Exactly. Not sure why everyone is flexing in the comments. The ego of these guys is insane
@@oshawastaken Yes, and if these guys want more rigour, then there's always Rudin and Stein and Shakarchi for harder problems. This is after all a basic course - what earth shattering level hard problem can be expected in such a course ?
Also someone ranting about harder papers not being set due to *less hardcore* people getting in.
The point in any mathematics course exam is not to set the highest difficulty level problem that one can come up with. That's only from the point of view of a freshman.
@@SayakKolay very true!
@@oshawastaken Actually you are the one who is taking it in an egoistic manner 🤔.
@@SayakKolay Yep sure you are correct! I agree 👍🏽
Some indian guys: "hell this calc test is easy af, in india we bla bla bla"
Because it is easy
Ever heard of JEE ADVANCED EXAM?
Open challenge just download 2020 jee advanced paper and do any math problem
Then comment down below
@@t3kina964 bruh im studying for jee advance right now that shit makes me a literal god compared to my classmates.
@@t3kina964 You just proved this person comment that you're that one Indian guy.
@@cancerboi2104 lol me too
What was your jee main feb score?
@@victorm222 well we can't do anything mate , it is what it is!
Everyone in the comments: “huh, that’s easier than I thought”
Me: ?
If you did somewhat intermediate/ hard maths in high school you’ll understand it’s just a step up from integration and differentiation like damn not that hard
this shit easier than my calculus class, with
Same bro. Calculus 1 for me is like “what is the derivative of arcsinx”
Calculus is the same anywhere, the point of going to MIT is competing and networking with the classmates. If you figure this out as a young person, you can go to the library of your state school and learn math and other subjects to the point of being better at those subjects than most kids at MIT. However, our society doesn't actually care about these subjects or how good you are at them; networking is much more important. So that's the real reason to go to MIT.
I think the main advantage of studying math at a college like MIT is in the office hours. Self-study works out for basic classes, but once you get to more difficult topics you need the office hours. The first such occurrence for me was with functional analysis and stochastic calculus. The help you get from professors is going to be markedly different at MIT versus a lesser state school. Society does care a lot about how good one is at such subjects. It just depends on the field.
@@ProtatoFarmer69 Interesting take, but of course it varies. MIT hires their tenure-track faculty for research first, and teaching 2nd, so not every prof there is a great teacher (but they are all leaders in research). The instructors (who only do teaching there and no research) are top notch though. At a state school, there might be a higher fraction of zombie profs that do the minimum, but most departments should at least have one or two excellent faculty members you can learn a lot from. MIT is also much better than a state school for doing undergrad research (UROP), you can work with superstar profs and practically make your whole career, but that falls under networking as opposed to classes.
Calculus 1 is Calculus 1, Calculus 2 is Calculus 2. End of story. What were you expecting?
Yeah everyone here acting like they thought just because it's MIT, their calc 1 test is gonna be solving the navier stokes equations, nope calc 1 is calc 1. You can buy their textbooks and you can get the same content as them.
@@Bruh-id1qc BRUH!
No shit Sherlock
@@finmat95 chill
Spivak level calculus, I hope you know that book exists.
I thought MIT exams were a lot harder, most of the exercises are trivial
its Calc 1, what did you expect?
@@coolguy23 I expected trickier problems. We used to get some nasty ones in our exam (I'm from Europe).
Btw the difficulty of exams doesn't make a university good or bad, that was just an observation.
@@LoZiOcErCa MIT, along with other famous schools, are famous for being great teaching facilities, not because the courses are necessarily harder(i suppose?)
@@omnipotentpotato2436 Yes, you’re right. I just genuinely thought exams were more difficult since it’s a very selective university
I just recently took an equivalent class to this at a different university. Another issue that people are forgetting is the amount of time that they give you to finish the exam. For the exams you generally have 1 hour, and two hours for a final. From my experience, for most of the exams about half of the students would generally take the entire time to take the exam. I think only one or two of the exams i took in math courses, did i have enough time to complete every question without making an educated guess. Another thing is that the average grade in these courses is generally 0.5-1.0 gpa points lower than other courses. Like at my school, the average gpa for some of these first and second year math classes was around a 2.5, or about a c+ average, when a c- is needed to move to the next course.
Your happy/optimistic aura is so contagious and heart-warming...
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Your teachers are quite good. You don’t have to write whole statements. If I had answered questions like you had in my exams, I would have barely got 2 marks !
Unless it is a proof based class these answers are acceptable pretty much everywhere. These would have done perfectly fine at Vanderbilt which is a top 15 school
Donald Biden?? Fr?? Lol xx
get off your high horse mate stop sounding so sore
@@blameitonnick hahahahahahah
I go to a community college and this is the same level of difficulty...
A top university on Earth and it’s basically the same as everywhere else
Yeah that’s how it is mostly everywhere. The only difference is the school
Right! I was in cc college too when I took calc 1 and my exams were harder 😭😭 Also, we didn’t have a curve. When I transferred to my university they had a curve and the grade I got for calc 1 at cc was an A at the university 😢💀 I wonder how calc 2 and 3 differs as well.
yes. when i transferred to cc, all my science classes were easier I was shocked
It's all about the money and the name
Hello everyone!
As a current first-year student at MIT, I just wanted to address some of the comments about how the exams seemed too easy. The tests that Kylie showed in this video are from the 18.01A and 18.02A courses, which covers both Calc I and Calc II in the Fall semester plus a one-month January semster. 18.01A is meant to be a rapid review of Calc I concepts and principles that is done in six weeks, while the remaining of the semester is dedicated to learning Calc II concepts. I think what makes 18.01A/18.02A difficult is that they go through a lot of concepts in a very short amount of time rather than exploring deeply into any one concept [MIT also offers 18.012 and 18.012, which are one-semester version of Calc I and Calc II that goes much deeper into the theory and proofs].
As someone who took Calc II, Linear Algebra, and Differential Equations with Georgia Tech in high school, I still found MIT's 18.02 (the normal one-semester version of Calc II) to be a helpful review. The types of problems we got on the problem sets were quite harder than the problems on the exam, and I found myself picking up on a lot of new things throughout the course (whether it was from seeing a different way to apply a concept or getting a deeper understanding of why certain theorems worked).
I don't think the MIT Calc II course is necessarily that much more difficult than the one I experienced at Georgia Tech, but like Sayak Koley said in the comments they don't have to be. These are meant to be introductory courses to math, and so I think it would be a unnecessary to make them insanely difficult. Also, many MIT students do come in with Calc II or higher levels of math experience, so do know that not everyone take these specific courses.
Also, from the official MIT Mathematics website, they provide the following quote about the difficulty of the courses:
"The basic 18.01 - 18.02 calculus sequence is a traditional treatment adapted for MIT students. Both subjects are offered in both fall and spring. The approach is not rigorous; some theorems are proved carefully while others are justified informally."
Source: math.mit.edu/academics/undergrad/first/calculus.php#:~:text=18.01A%20is%20given%20during,during%20IAP%20or%20Spring%20semester.
@Nick Persopolis it’s one of the top ranking schools. that’s by statistics. on top of that, the connections made there will be at a much higher level due to its name.
@Nick Persopolis I would disagree. While not 100%, MIT has a precedence of filtering applicants exclusively on their academic abilities and what they could offer to the MIT community. The admissions office also do not consider legacy status (Source: mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/just-to-be-clear-we-dont-do-legacy/).
If you are talking about rankings, MIT is #4 on the the US News college ranking and #1 on the QS World University Rankings. Imo, rankings can be a bit overrated (personally, I think colleges in the top 25 or even 50 in rankings are pretty on-par with each other with minute differences, and higher-ranked schools don't always guarantee better outcomes), but I mean this is what the common public uses to gauge how "good" a college is.
Also, for most of history up until the 60s or 70s, colleges in the US *were* exclusively catered to the rich and privileged, as they were the only ones who could afford to higher education. That's not just an MIT thing or Harvard thing. If you are from a higher class family, you are also more likely to have better resources, mentoring, opportunities, etc. that students from lower classes do not have. While I think colleges as a whole has been getting better in terms of encouraging more diverse populations and students from all different socio-economic classes, ethnicities, etc., we still have a long way to go before college really becomes an equal opportunity for all.
@Nick Persopolis I think you are putting words in my mouth. I was trying to qualify your statement that "the school for most of its history only admitted the most privileged..." by noting that this practice wasn't just an MIT-specific thing, as it was also true for the majority of the US colleges for most of their history too. Personally, I don't know enough about MIT's history enough to say about its previous treatment of minorities or racial groups, but from what I see today, I believe the way that it currently treats its students, and potential student applicants, to be relatively fair.
Also to be fair, unless you are an admissions officer or a university chair, you don't know what MIT actually do for legacy admissions either. I only argued that as far in written policies goes MIT says it does not consider legacy status, and imo I believe that is true to a certain extent, though you are free to have your own opinions about it.
And lastly, I agree with you that college rankings only paint a partial (and sometimes skewed) picture about the quality of the school, and it definitely should not be an end-all, be-all resource when researching which colleges to apply to. That said, from my experience so far, I genuinely believe that MIT really is a good school. Is it #4 US best? I don't know. A lot of it also comes down to individual fit and what kind of culture they want to see in a school. That's something that can be easily explained or communicated through a single number.
@Nick Persopolis I see your point. I admit I don't know a lot about the way that MIT (or other colleges) were in the past, but I would agree would you that most of them [and especially the "elite universities" of the times] weren't fair. To be honest, I think that people should stop supporting college elitism and the idea that certain high-ranked colleges are somehow more superior than others, because they really aren't. It doesn't make sense to that people are look down lesser known schools or even 2-year or technical community colleges, because you can go to any of these schools and make a great career for yourself as long you have the dedication and passion to see it through.
had to make sure we knew it wasn't easy lol
I just recently took an equivalent class to this at a different university. Another issue that people are forgetting is the amount of time that they give you to finish the exam. For the exams you generally have 1 hour, and two hours for a final. From my experience, for most of the exams about half of the students would generally take the entire time to take the exam. I think only one or two of the exams i took in math courses, did i have enough time to complete every question without making an educated guess. Another thing is that the average grade in these courses is generally 0.5-1.0 gpa points lower than other courses. Like at my school, the average gpa for some of these first and second year math classes was around a 2.5, or about a c+ average, when a c- is needed to move to the next course. They also grade you based on how well your class performs, which can make it even more difficult to get a decent grade
To those that are saying that this calc test is easy. We get it you're smart. Now stop making me feel like an idiot
Smart or knowledgeable
I suspect they are simply resentful of seeing the glam letters MIT.
They do not know the purpose of the exam, the amount of homework that goes in an MIT course, and so on.
It’s interesting to see the scope of different classes at different schools. Usually I think of Calc 2 as covering infinite series, different methods of integration and vector and parametric calculus. Calc 2 at MIT seems to dip pretty heavily into what I would conventionally think of as Calc 3 like Gauss Green.
It's similar to the Physics courses. The Calc 2 is this because they start Electromagnetism pretty soon, and need those Gauss flux and green theorems
The reason why this type of school is difficult is due to the pacing and content of the lectures - go watch one and youll instantly see how difficult it is to keep up
in greece it is way harder. not only harder but also different. it is more like proving things than just exercises. you have to use "let e > 0" to pass the exams. i think the exams in mit are easy because you havent been taught some basic integrals,limits and stuff in high school. so the calc1 is easier in mit than here but calc 3 is probably about the same as here
Wow this looks hard really soon I’m going to be there hopefully
It's surprising how relatable the tests are
Its nice that you only have to calculate, in my college there are teachers that ask you to verbally explain what you are doing in the exercise
God I get so excited when it comes to calculus! Hoping to study more on college. A jee Aspirant currently.
the way you say hurray is so wholesome
at 2:18 How do you come from second line to third line with the approximation of f(x) by simplifying 6x^3 and -9x^4?
Ngl, 80% of Indian Students can easily solve these problems, but I get it. It's not about studying at MIT that is hard, it's getting in.
lmao why you specifying indian students?
@@ClumpypooCP yo bro check for the jee advanced paper on the internet you will know.
I have mine on 28 I'm so nervous 😥
My understanding is that this is more of an introductory test, which means it's bound to get rapidly harder. Generally speaking, calculus is not tested as an introductory course in most universities. If you're doing engineering, the basics are thought towards the end of the first term. So for those who think MIT is easy, it isn't.
At 6:01 you can also use a simple trig identity to transform the numerator in a product of sines and then use an elementary limit.
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Which one
You can also expand in series and then its really easy
at 2:55 there is a trigonometric substitution to solve the integral. Why does she use 'a' as a coefficient?
Wow, I've seen way harder calculus problems in the mir moscu books. I was expecting near impossible math problems.
if MIT has 50 spots for math majors (they don't admit by major, just a hypothetical), instead of giving them to the 50 best math kids, they pick the 10 best math kids, and then the other 40 spots are for people with quirks provided they are also decently smart (ex: athletes, those who know how to write good essays, affirmative action, etc.) When you admit people who are only "decently smart", you lose the liberty of giving out really hard exams because the class just isn't capable of performing at that level. Your average MIT kid isn't much better than the kids at the top 1% of state schools.
@@markattaka1540 I slightly disagree with your statement. I think that MIT does a fairly good job of selecting students by merit (and less on factors like endowment money or sport recruitment) and that there is a lot of classes at MIT which are very rigorous. Calc I and II, however, is just not one of them, and to be honest, they really shouldn't have to be. If my high school didn't have AP Calc BC or AB and I was just experiencing the subject for the first time in college, I wouldn't want my first semester to be complete hell because of some arbitrary difficulty that was put on the class.
MIR books are insane. If you think you're good at math, try to read them by yourself.
@@MrGrayWolf Yes, MIT is more meritocratic than other schools in America, but not by a lot. They don't consider legacy, Im not sure about endowment, and they still consider sports but not as much as other schools like ivies. But in everything else, they are just as bad. They have affirmative action, they love "quirky" kids, they love people who can write admission essays well. At the end of the day, none of this creates the smartest possible student body. Maybe it creates the most interesting student body, but not the smartest. Everyone is smart relative to the normal population, but not the absolute best of the country. This is why everyone in the comments section is confused. In Europe or Asia, schools are pretty much 100% merit, so everyone there is the "best of the best". That's why everyone also assumes MIT would be the best of the best, when it really isn't. Some are, but the vast majority aren't.
@@markattaka1540 I would agree with you that being in MIT or Harvard or any of the Ivy league colleges doesn't necessarily mean that one is the "best of the best". I've seen plenty of examples from my own experience of friends and people I who are incredibly smart and talented but weren't accepted to these colleges. That said, just from my experience of the campus culture and getting to meet some of the people here, I do believe that the way that MIT does seem to do a good job of drawing a diverse groups of students who are passionate about what they do and are willing to work hard at it. It doesn't make it the most meritocratic school in the world, and I honestly don't like the claim that just being an MIT students makes you better than everyone else.
These looks exactly like the Calc tests at Vanderbilt
Uh that's a pretty easy exam, I feel like the french system is harder overall
Interesting!
if MIT has 50 spots for math majors (they don't admit by major, just a hypothetical), instead of giving them to the 50 best math kids, they pick the 10 best math kids, and then the other 40 spots are for people with quirks provided they are also decently smart (ex: athletes, those who know how to write good essays, affirmative action, etc.) When you admit people who are only "decently smart", you lose the liberty of giving out really hard exams because the class just isn't capable of performing at that level. Your average MIT kid isn't much better than the kids at the top 1% of state schools.
Yep, I was in studying engineering in Serbia, and these tests are way easier. They literally tell them what integration method to use 😂
@@stevanmomcilovic3447 calc 1 for us in Germany is a lot of proofs, Fourier stuff, diff eq, matrix exponential, just one integral and that’s it lol (at least in physics)
Ever heard of ASIA..?
Tbh, the introduction to my calc 1 and calc 2 at my university is more difficult than this, but it doesn't mean I'll get into MIT tho lmao, it's a long way from that.
my highschool calc teacher actually used to give tests exactly like these just less formal wow shoutout him
going to go to college this September and how bored I am to be here lmao
And a lot of these are actually IB math HL stuff! Oof I feel better
They gave u the trig identities?? We have to memorize all of them rom Differential to Imtegral. Then never use it in actual exam.
Wow, this looks pretty easy. Calculus is my favorite section of math)
mfw when u don’t start brackets and close them
@@integralboi2900 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@integralboi2900 judging from the username, i think it’s safe to assume the user is russian, and that’s actually how they type smiley faces. :) like this one but without the eyes
calculus isn't even math lmao, it's just memorization
@@vianne2488 I'm Kazakh
Wow I wish we had these questions for our calculus exam. Our professor insists on having 5 or less questions and making them the most impossible questions he can find. We’re software engineering students and our average the first semester for Calculus was 44 out of 100 and 50 for the second semester, 60 is the minimum passing grade… Of course he was forced to curve around 30 points but that didn’t change our GPA so he singlehandedly made me lose my 75 percent scholarship which I really need.
Where I went, the calculus 2 averages were in the teens. I think the first midterm average was a 17 and the second a 9. Our professor would provide 12 questions but only grade it out of five. The point was to reduce randomness and just prove you were smart. We still all failed. Curve was quite generous though lol
THATS CALC 1?? Some of those topics are in my calc 2 now 😢
bro whatt over 50% of problems in that calc 1 exam was material that I learned in calc 2... what the heckkk
@Nathan Ward Ohhh that makes sense.. wow it must be challenging then
Is this end of semester calc 2? Because some of this is calc 3 stuff right?
Calculus is like an universal language, its same everywhere!
Everyone who prepared for JEE Maths & Calculus specifically will crush this one for the most part😬😂
I see a lot of people saying this test was very easy. For context 18.01 is the intro Calc class at MIT, and until a couple years ago you were able to skip it with a 5 on the AP Calc B/C exam. Now they make you take a diagnostic in the fall as a freshman no matter what I believe to skip it. -Source an MIT student
No... 18.01A covers 18.01 in six weeks and spends the rest of the time on 18.02 so it's actually harder.
@@yarubik hum, my bad then. Whats the longer version 18.01L or something?
@@BigNickPoodle they don't have a longer version of 18.01 but they do for 8.01 which is the physics class, which is 8.01L
This is Calc 1, remember that. The point is not that it's easy, it is an introductory math course. Math gets MUCH harder than just calculus. Also, most math majors (which you some of you here seem to be) have already taken AB/BC/Multivar BEFORE college, which is the equivalent of this one course. Also consider that MIT is considered a top math school for its graduate/PhD programs. As a BC teacher, we normally have freshman or middle schoolers taking what's the equivalent of "Calc II" in most other colleges.
But students take that class having taken it before during high school so it's not an introduction for them, they already know all those stuffs, don't they?
do they provide u guys with a formula booklet? lol im just terrible at remembering formulas
Bro my high school finals were 10× harder than this ? Which year is this must be 1st
Hey love the videos, do you perhaps have a file/link for the exam papers?
Sorry, but there is no copy of them online. Only physical copies exist as they were actual tests I took at MIT.
damn no wonder the avengers needed tony stark to solve their time heist
my tests are much harder, but that doesn't mean that my school is anywhere close in quality compared to MIT. For example my professor only showed up once during the whole semester. I guess that just shows that tougher tests doesn't always equate to better universities or better students
Yeah you can get a lot of hard exam but the teacher just sit there and play video games then you wont be any good
This exam was easier than the ones I do in FEUP. And I'm a Freshmen
Calc 1 is calc 1. Were people expecting MIT to teach real analysis or something in an introductory calc class?
I’ve studied chemical engineer and trust me. At my first year I’d real analysis without calculus knowledges. I suffered a lot…
most ppl in the comments saying how easy and “trivial” these questions are have likely already completed introductory courses so OBVIOUSLY it will seem 10 x easier.
So pretty standard Calc test, I don't know why everyone is expecting it to be super hard.
That calc test is literally like any other calc tests ive seen lmao
Kylie I have some questions about MIT. Could you please help me out with those doubts? And if so, where can I send you those questions? Thanks in advance
did u get in?its been a year
@@karelmartyns4518 nop :( in fact i got rejected by all the unis i've applied to T_T. I'm staying in my home country to study
@@tomassanchez6010 sorry to hear this man,but remember u can always apply to more,don't let it ofset you. How many did you apply to if I may ask and if they were all ivies?
How much MIT cost per semester tho?
Thanks for the presentation but it would be better if you could hold the camera steady and let it focus, so we can see the questions they asked.
My calc 2 class never covered vector fields and flux. And my calc 1 never covered series.
Calculus courses sequence was meant as a benchmark of how students retain comprehension in familiar setting a.k.a textbook-like problems..
Specifically for those who would only utilize it as mere "tool" in their crafts of scholastical studies..
Afterall, with the advancements of Computer-Aided Packages, those idiosyncratic integration tricks found in older books, had been falling outta favor and becomes notoriously fruitless to be on exams.
The words you use make you seem like you're trying to be smart, not that you are actually smart, I hope you don't talk with other people like that.
It's the same thing every university though! Like its more or less about understanding the concept and setting up the equation right than computing math! We should never downplay the computation, but in Calculus it's more important to understand the concept than just getting the right answer via computation! This is university level math though! Apparently, AP and IB exams are way harder than university level math exams!
Ya'll win guys 😂 Mit is easy peasy. You can surely assume EVERY course there is super easy to pass and the exams- YOU experience are definitely harder! Also that's why some of the most brilliant students, even the ones who win gold medal in international math olympiad come to Mit and work their asses off.
Dedicated only to the salty people in this comment section.
At 6:25, you were not correct, you only got 3 points out of 10. You are missing an x in the integral, as you are using the shell method. Also, you are finding the volume if the base, not the bowl itself, so you would need to plus in 1 to the equation to find the height, and then do height minus the equation in your integral.
Idk why people are so surprised this is the same thing as what you did in AP Calculus. Calculus is calculus. The test made sense except for number one until I realized she just substituted. She made the first equation to the -3x to get the value of 3^-3x and the second to 2x to get cos(2x) and then multiplied both
I'm planning to apply to MIT but I've never been exposed to such hard exams. Can someone explain how's the education there? I mean do they prepare you for this type of exams or it's just an exam with tough activities you've never seen?
@Ayden Mascarenas hi! I am an international student who's planning to apply to MIT. I didn't take the SAT nor the ACT yet and my GPA is 9,99/10 (different grading system but I guess it's an A+). On the other hand I must say that I love maths and although I don't know calculus, I'm doing independent learning in order to improve my math skills.
@@tomassanchez6010 These questions are answered at the end of the module, so don't be too stressed out if you don't know how to find a linear approximation, or find weird limits.
Is it for Math major or non-Math major?
Typically the lower level classes don't differentiate between the two
For my calculus tests I would show all my work and get the answer right for the whole test but my teacher would take off a big amount of points bcz i didn't do it "his way". I barely passed the class w a 70 when i deserved a much higher grade.
Ngl I don’t know why I was expecting some really hard calculus test, here in ireland we learn most of this before collage do Americans leave this level of calculus for collage?
Apparently, this was a short course one can take it if they don't know the material. I do think most schools leave it to the colleges though, over in Canada we didn't do that much in high school maths. It was a foot in and carried over for calc I but not calc II
No
Is it actually MIT it was actually really easy I am currently preparing for IIT JEE and I was able to solve most them in my head and in things like approximation questions we don’t even get that hint we have to learn the McLorien series/expansion I believe it should not be MIT Level of exam.
wait don’t MIT students already do Ap calculus AB or BC when they’re in high school tho?
edit: oh wait i think MIT makes you redo the classes anyways regardless of your AP score
you don’t have to redo them the same there are more proof based versions like 18.022 which are honestly more appropriate if you have done the material . However a school like MIT will have people who take the easier version because they are optimizing for GPA for the next school [grad school]
5:04 question 6 part (3) derive contradiction on F(2) when F(2) > sqrt(7)
probably using parts (1) and (2)
I am a high school student in India and I can do almost every problem in the given test . if you want to see real calculus problem see IITJEE advance questions .it will blow your mind .
even in probability and statistics ? i want to see these problems to practise
@@narimanethr2362 I am having no idea about statistics as it is not there in IITJEE advance syllabus but you can have a look at problems of probability they are also quiet challenging
the toughest problem are in algebra and calculus section
ISTG i was thinking the exact same thing ......... btw my jee exam is on 25th June so 2 days left lol.😂😂
@@manasagrawal2149 Best of Luck for your Exam
MIT test, these tests seem extremely easy. Just, limit integration stuff etc etc
If you think this is easy then shoot for the stars and either 1. aim to go to somewhere with as much clout as MIT or 2. live in regret because your time passed. I am definitely not over-hyping you. You can do it. Einstein was watching ‘WHAT’S A CALCULUS TEST LIKE AT MIT? by a MIT student’ when he was in his early adult years,
4:56 how did you get a point deduction. to me, I don't see anything wrong with that. like you gotta use x instead of t or something?
I'm guessing the final equation should have t's in it rather than u's and include appropriate bound (1 to 3 if I'm not mistaken but dont quote me)
@@JackRule16 yep, and getting dx once she got x, or in this case t. But she should've use the variable that the exercise said tho
@@victorvalverde3895 I agree, but I do think the point deduction was valid.
How is that ten times easier than my calc 1 exams, where we had 25 questions for an hour and a half, and all of the questions were mc so no partial credit. 😭
Wait... this is. idk normal? I mean it makes sense, it's not like algebra 4 or anything. It's calc 1/2, literally an intro, so I assume it's going to be similar everywhere
This is just what I studied in my Indian High school 🙄
Can u help i paid someone to help me to get scholarship and he took my money and runout i wish u offer consultation
Y’all gotta stop thinking of MIT as a supreme university. It is just a university, similar to the millions of universities around the world.
It’s not even that. Calc 1 is easy asf. There’s only so much you can do with that course. I don’t know why people were expecting something insane. Calc 3 is honestly where the challenge arises but most people don’t even need to take that because their program requires basic calc 1 and maybe a stats class
Entropy Z Not to nitpick but there aren't millions of universities in the world lol. There's not a million if you include community colleges. And MIT is an elite school. There's a reason they produce so many geniuses. Just because the basic content of a standard math class isn't ridiculously and needlessly hard doesn't mean the school is average...
@@caseydouglas3671 You are right. Maybe the correct term would have been thousands. I do however disagree with the rest. They don't produce geniuses. Geniuses are already made and chose to attend MIT, but not all of them do. Many factors influence attending a school, such as ability to pay. Many of these smart people don't have the ability to pay or attend and they chose different schools that they can afford. There is nothing wrong with that. MIT is an elite school because people hype it up to be. The reality is that the level of innovation that happens at MIT also happens in many other universities. What I am saying is that the school does not make the talent but the talent makes the school. And I never said other schools were average by the way. I implied that they were at the same level as MIT and not less.
@@entropyz5242 Have to agree. These arguments in favor of MIT are ridiculously stupid. "There's only so much you can do". Okay, then you could apply that to any course. Certainly MIT students don't have more hours in the day than any other student, so we can't imagine that all of their classes are insanely heavy lifting. Most college students don't get enough sleep as it is. Based on their Calculus class, I'd say they aren't putting students through a meat grinder but rather just have more money, better and newer toys to play with and overall probably a better quality education - but that doesn't mean the students there are in academic death camp. Looks like it's far from that. It's like comparing a community college course to a university course and in some cases finding the community college course is more rigorous. Is there prestige associated with a community college course? Hell no. If you gave me a full ride to MIT, would I attend and brag to everyone? Absolutely.
Jee aspirants be like :
"Ye toh apan bachpan me krte hai, apna roj ka kaam hai"😂😂
True anyone from 12th std in India can solve this.... i mean avg student. I forgot the formulas since 5 years but still looks easy to me.
I go to a public state university and the level of difficulty is more or less similar.
Wait, you didn't do calc in high school yet still you got into MIT?
Calc is Calc, no matter where you go. If you're lucky, it's some of the most fun you'll have in math. What I was surprised to find was that they teach Calc at MIT at all. I figured everyone admitted would have had it. 🤷♂️
most of this is high school calc?
Is this legal? Are u allowed to do this though?
Bruh that's easy af. I study economics at TUM in germany and we covered all of that in the preporatory summer course before the 1st Semester even started
See you soon : )
I go to a small private liberal arts college and I’m a sophomore but I miss doing “easy” math like this😭
Yeah this is easy cause its calc 1. But like why does MIT even have a course on calc 1? Isn't it like a highschool level course? I think calc 2 is ap calc
Ayo wtf, this looks exactly like the exams over here at OSU. That calc class was damn hard
Looks easier than those I took at my community college
2:57 lol clearly the +C mistake was corrected before something could go wrong
Man this comment section is filled with people claiming how easy this is yet US universities are still the most highly regarded in the world so chill. This is a calc test like every other (unless you're in a proof based class, then good luck).
US top University education is highly regarded. US high school education not so much.
@@tupoiu let me edit that bc that's what I meant, our hs is shit
Is this legal to do? I’m considering posting my tests to TH-cam to help future students but idk if it’s legal or not and don’t wanna find out the hard way
Ask your teacher/professor
I had like 50 questions on my midterm and 25 of those was finding derivatives.. and that was at a community College.. should have went to MIT lol
Calc 2 exam is literally Calc 3 ??
bro what the hell, federal university in brazil is a lot harder than that
Thanks
3:17 If you did the same thing in an Indian university you would have gotten 10/20 for Q4. MIT is so easy af 😩
This is easier than my AP Calculus class I am taking at my school
I’m sure it is
They do calc 1 and 2 all in one semester. Depending on which AP Calc you take, they learned either their material twice as fast you, or 4 times faster than you so take that as you will.
@@nahummaru1241 The AP calc exam is also easier overall than these MIT exams
Over 55% of Calc BC students get a 5/5.
😅😅😅 why do I feel like I'm far behind 🥺🥺🥺... Gosh. Need to study more
Nice to see a lot of the problems that I see here have been covered by my high school (European equivalent tho) teacher in class
Wait I thought MIT was supposed to be difficult? They even tell you what method of integration to use and give you trig identities..?
Honestly speaking I studied in school with ranks above 1500 and the calculus exam is much difficult than MIT.