GRE Subject Tests

[Kaz]

I don't know what this means yet, but EC's math major requires 3 calculus courses, while the Math GRE says it is 50% calculus.

Hi. I'm a math major with all of my credits from B&M's who is probably transferring to Excelsior. Alissa knows this stuff as well as anyone on this forum, but I'll wager Excelsior's GRE math award breakdown is close to this. Again, this is just my assumption:
36th% = minimum score in order to get any credit
81st% = complete major = 11 courses according to EC's L.A.'s catalog
5% ~ 3 credits
I think a score in the 55-60% range would be good enough to fulfill the core requirements. That's five classes out of eleven needed. Typically, getting an 81% or higher requires mastery of the "calc section", "algebra section" and some familiarity with the "additional topics section".

If you get every single question right in the "calc section", and didn't answer anything else, you'd have a raw score of approximately 33, which would put you in the 59%. So if you reviewed everything you've already learned, and then mastered Calc3, 4 and Advanced 1, you would still be about 12-15 credits short of completing the major. That's a lot, and completing upper level math is harder to come by then say business administration or I.T with regards to online classes and testing out.

You need Calc 1 through 3 for part of the core requirement. Many schools, including mine (Rutgers) treat the first differential equations class as Calc 4. The Math Subject GRE's 50% calculus breakdown includes any school's "diff. e.q." equivalent. You probably can't complete any RA bachelor's in math without taking at least the equivalent of Advanced Calc 1 (I guess Calc 5 seemed silly?), which some would regard as calc (duh) but can just as rightfully be considered "analysis", and so can straddle the 50% for the calc breakdown and the 25% for the "additional topics" subcategory. Excelsior's catalog specifically puts advanced calc in their Section "A" of their Intermediate and Upper-level courses.

I admire and encourage anyone who wants to tackle the quantitative GRE's for credit, but you really need to know your stuff. If the highest level math you've ever taken is, say, Calc 2 then I'd say you won't even recognize 60% of the questions.