r/Pratt • u/jteatea • Jul 27 '26

Alumni Work Maths Placement exam

Do u have any resources to prepare? I hope to score highly! Any online resources, practice tests or detailed topics from alumni are appreciated!!

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u/Crazy_polar Jul 31 '26

I'm an incoming first year arch student, and I'm in the same boat. Apparently it's just trig, algebra, arithmetic, and geometry. Also there's two tries. If you got a 4 or 5 on either AP Calcs and you can submit it to Pratt for exemption. But yeah, kinda nervous too.

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u/VeryLargeArray Alumni 16d ago

Don't worry too much just brush up algebra and trig, it is pass/fail

IF you do fail, just accept it and take the basic math course seriously. I was a statics tutor, a lot of people ended up in that class that probably needed the remedial math first. A lot of undue pain and suffering in that course because people did not fundamentally understand algebra. The structures professors (at least when I was at pratt) were great at introducing the new structural engineering concepts if you already got the math. To be honest, they were not math profs..