what is the difference between remedial classes and non remedial classes in college?

Question

I just wanted to know because I am kinda dumb and may have remedial classes but I dont know what that really means.....

Answer 1

The most common remedial classes are English and math. If you have to take these, then it means that you aren't quite up to par with the university's required level of proficiency for those subjects. You will have to take these classes (I recommend at a local community college so you aren't paying the university's top dollar) in order to begin prerequisites for your major.

Don't knock yourself, you can do it! - I wish you every bit of luck :-)

Answer 2

First of all, I want you to get OUT of the HABIT of calling yourself, or thinking of yourself, as "kinda dumb." There may be a lot of good reasons why you are not a student getting A's or B's in your high school classes. If you have worked steadily and pretty hard, according to how you see it, then you are probably working at your own true ability level.
Anyway, remedial classes in college mean that they are focusing on skills and ideas that would have appeared in any high school textbooks or material, and the college class material is REVIEWING these ideas because the student did not completely understand or learn them through their high school career. Non-remedial classes, I wiill assume, means the standard freshman courses that a college freshman would be required to take.

Answer 3

In math, remedial classes are generally what high school's call Algebra II, or below that level. You generally take a placement test to see where you qualify. If your math skills are subpar you might be placed in pre-algebra, for example, so it will take quite a few semesters before you exit remedial math coursework. You should not feel 'bad' about being placed in remedial. Everyone has to start somewhere so there's no disgrace.

Your college likely uses a numbering system to distinguish its course offerings. I.e. Math 100 would be non-remedial while Math 53 is remedial; below 100 would be remedial.

Answer 4

Remedial classes are suggested to new students who fall below par on the placement exams, typical for english and math. First, don't think of yourself as dumb for getting placed into one. You where smart enough to get accepted to that school, and compensated on your test scores with an apparent disadavantage. In one way, that kind of makes you smarter in all the other areas then the average student. With that said, remedial classes don't typically count as credits needed for a major. Though don't fret. In the long run, having to take an extra class is hardly an issue.

Answer 5

Remedial classes are designed to fix gaps in education which students should have filled in high school, but didn't. In other words, if your record got you into college, but they discovered that you really don't know enough about such things as Math and English to allow you to move comfortably into college-level courses, they may ask you to take remedial courses so that you can fit in in the future.

The chances are that your lack of knowledge is due to your having gone to an inadequate high school, not to your basic intelligence. The school accepted you, so they think you have the potential to succeed. Don't think of yourself as dumb, or you are doomed to fail because you will assume that you can't handle the material. If you realize that you were not exposed to what you should have been exposed to in high school, this is your chance to learn those things you missed. I know of students who started college functionally illiterate and now have master's degrees because they came from deprived backgrounds and had a chance to learn what they had missed while in college.

Answer 6

Not as long as you do well. They will take more time than walking in prepared, and cost you more money (___ units x YYY $ per unit). If you have a good idea of where you are deficient, it will benefit you to get up to par with summer school or tutoring in the pre-college situation. College involves the same increase of work difficulty from Freshman to Senior as does the under-school, but the workload increase and difficulty is proportionately greater: this is why it is best to walk in as a completely prepared Freshman. p.b.