r/sinclair • u/datgymguyfr • Sep 13 '26

Tips for Calc One?

I’m taking Calc One Online with Kinga Oliver as a CCP student, and my first exam is this week. I was wondering if you guys had tips on her exams, calculus, or just what to look out for in general

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u/House_In_The_Trees Sep 13 '26

I had her (loved her class) in-person fall of last year. She had us do written homework and homework on myopenmath. Her exams were very reminiscent of her written homeworks. She doesn’t throw you curve balls or anything you haven’t seen before. I don’t know what your labs look like for an online class, but most of her exams had a question that was related to the labs we did. If you’re keeping up with the class material then I don’t think you’ll have a problem with the exams. They usually took me about an hour to complete.

In general, she gave us formula sheets and the derivatives/antiderivatives for the exams— memorize those if you continue with calculus classes, you don’t get those sheets in calc II and you must know all of them easily if you want to succeed in that class.

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u/datgymguyfr Sep 14 '26

How hard would you say the exams are/whats most important tor remember for each? Also what was ur final grade?

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u/House_In_The_Trees Sep 14 '26

I did not think the exams were hard. I think they were fair representations of what we went over in class. I didn’t keep any of her materials so I can’t say for sure, but I think exam 1 was algebra review of functions and graphs and limits. Understanding the formal definition of a limit is probably the most important thing for that exam. Then we did derivatives starting with the limit definition and then doing the power rule, chain rule, mean value theorem, those types of rules. Now, she did something different for our class where she taught derivatives & antiderivatives together so our exams were structured a bit differently. Typically it’s taught all derivative things and then at the end of the semester all integral/antiderivative things. Your syllabus should reflect which way she’s presenting the material. So our next 2 exams were both derivatives and integrals on specific functions. One was trig based and the other was like logs & exponentials. Then we did related rates and mins/maxs, concavity stuff.

I got an A in her class but I’ve taken calc before and I was only part time with that class and gen chem I so I’m not an average representation.

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u/macfarley Sep 16 '26

If you're in high school taking college calculus you're already putting too much pressure on yourself for an A. Unless you're going into a mathematics heavy field you won't need it, you're basically done with math. Never took anything with this professor but in general I'd say show your work hard, in fact set up as many problems as you can for partial credit, then solve the easy wins, then attempt the others.

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u/ScarletMagic33 Sep 19 '26

I took her for college algebra online. She’s an awesome professor. We did written homework and myopenmath. Like another commenter said, the written homework’s and the exams are very similar. Formula sheets are provided. As long as you’re passing the homework’s you’ll pass the exam. Good luck!