Advanced Standing Credit


The next offering of the Advanced Standing Exams is scheduled as follows:

8.01
Monday, August 25, 2008
9 - Noon, 4-370

8.02 UDATED (5/13/08)
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
8:30 - 11:30, 4-370

Incoming first year students do not need to sign up for the Fall offering of the exam. All other students should complete a petition and submit it to Academic Programs, 4-315. Additional information about Advanced Standing Exams can be referenced at http://web.mit.edu/registrar/www/schedules/advst.html .

The Physics Advanced Standing Exams (ASE) are three-hour, closed book exams covering Classical Mechanics (8.01) or Classical Electromagnetism (8.02) at a level of calculus-based introductory physics texts for science and engineering students such as: University Physics by Young and Freedman; Physics by Halliday, Resnick, and Krane; Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Serway; Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Fishbane, Gasiorowicz, and Thornton. The exams are similar to the final exams given in 8.01 and 8.02, with problems based on a selection of the topics listed below. Neither calculators nor "formula sheets" may be used.

The only students eligible to take the 8.01 and 8.02 advanced standing exams are:

• Those who have never registered for 8.01 or 8.02 at MIT, or


• Those who are taking it to validate transfer credit from another college or university.

The 8.01 and 8.02 advanced standing exams are administered in August, about one week before Registration Day, and during the last week in January.

Continuing MIT students must petition the Registrar through Physics Academic Programs, 4-315, to take an ASE for 8.01 or 8.02. First semester freshmen will receive a grade of P if they pass the exam or no grade at all if they fail the exam. Second semester freshmen will be graded on the A/B/C/No Record scale. A passing grade will appear on the student's transcript. Upperclassmen will receive letter grades that will appear on their transcript, but not factor into the GPA. Any student who fails the advanced standing exam cannot repeat it, and should enroll in the appropriate subject at MIT.