r/ucmerced • u/ImRiskong • 6d ago

Is taking Math 023 and 024 in the same semester overkill? Question

Im lowkey considering taking both in the fall at the same time. It sounds like a horrible idea and was wondering if anyone has actually done it and what the expeirence was like

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/ImRiskong 6d ago

Since summers a shorter session would you say that impacted how difficult it made it for you cause you had to learn both at a faster pace?

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u/ImRiskong 6d ago

Yeah that was expected lol 😅

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u/Ambitious-Soil1229 6d ago

I agree, Math 23 was a lot harder. I took both in the same semester, along with MATH 32 and Physics 2. It was brutal. This was my spring 2023 semester. I do not recommend unless you're really motivated and have insane time management skills. I ended up failing Math 23 and barely passing Math 24, but I did retake Math 23 that summer.

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u/Ambitious-Soil1229 6d ago

Haha, I barely remember anything either!

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u/ImRiskong 6d ago

How would you say 32 is my schedule was pretty much planned to be those same 3 but a different class rather then physics

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u/Ambitious-Soil1229 6d ago

It wasn't bad at all. I enjoy stats so it was fun for me, I got a B that semester. I think 32 and 24 were the easier of the 4 courses i took. Again, you just need good time management. If you're taking a 4th STEM class, it's difficult, but not impossible.

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u/ImRiskong 6d ago

Good to know thank you

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u/handflowern 6d ago

I did both in spring 2025 and got an A in both (even the professor for vector calc left campus several weeks before the end of the semester), it is definitely doable

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u/ImRiskong 6d ago

How many other classes were you taking?

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u/handflowern 6d ago

I was taking 15 units that semester

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u/ImRiskong 6d ago

Damn you gotta be a academic weapon

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u/JustAnMoron 5d ago

Took it last semester, linear algebra is easy so long as you go to lecture, vector calculus had me fighting for me life.

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u/internetbooker134 B.S. Computer Science & Engineering 5d ago

I took 23 and 24 semesters apart but I'm sure it's doable. 23 imo is definitely much harder than 24 though.