Advanced Standing Exams

Advanced Standing Examinations (ASEs) are one means through which you can obtain credit for MIT subjects without enrolling in the subject. (See AP and International Exam Credit for information on other ways to obtain MIT credit.) A passing grade on an MIT ASE will place you into the next subject in a sequence; it may also give you credit toward your degree, depending on the department offering the exam. Note that you cannot take an ASE if you have ever registered for or attended the subject at MIT.

Advanced Standing Exams are usually offered during Orientation Week in August and in the last week of the Independent Activities Period (late January/early February). During Orientation, Advanced Standing Exams are usually offered in:

• Biology (7.01x)
• Calculus (18.01 and 18.02)
• Chemistry (5.111/5.112)
• Mathematics (18.03, 18.06, and other subjects by arrangement)
• Physics (8.01 and 8.02).

Biology, Chemistry, and higher-level Mathematics ASEs require preregistration:

• Biology: Sign up on the Biology Department's web page.
  
• Chemistry: Sign up on the Chemistry Department's web page.
  
• Mathematics (18.03, 18.06, and other higher-level subjects): Apply for permission to take the exam(s) and request the homework packet(s) by contacting Galina Lastovkina, galina@math.mit.edu, by August 1. You must submit the assigned homework at the time of the exam.

Come back to this page after August 1 for the final schedule of Orientation Week exams.