Can I retake MATH 1113 over the summer at UGA?

Yes. UGA offers MATH 1113 in summer sessions, and retaking it in summer is a common strategy for students who failed or withdrew in spring and need to clear the prerequisite before fall calculus. Confirm the specific session offered at reg.uga.edu.

Does a MATH 1113 retake replace my old grade at UGA?

UGA's grade-substitution policy allows a limited number of repeated courses to replace the original grade in your institutional GPA calculation. Both grades still appear on your transcript. Check current Registrar policy and confirm with your academic advisor before relying on substitution.

How do I avoid failing MATH 1113 a second time?

Identify the specific topic or skill that broke your first attempt — function notation, trig identities, logarithms, or algebraic manipulation speed — and address it before the term starts. A retake without diagnosing the first failure typically produces the same outcome faster.

Does a MATH 1113 retake affect HOPE or Zell Miller?

Possibly. Repeated courses count attempted hours toward the HOPE/Zell checkpoint review, and the grades factor into your GPA recalculation at the checkpoint. The earlier you stabilize the course, the less impact on scholarship eligibility.

Retaking MATH 1113 in summer to stay on the Calculus track

Most students reading this aren’t taking MATH 1113 for the first time. They’re retaking it, usually after a D, an F or a withdrawal, and they’re doing it in summer for one reason: so they don’t lose a year on the calculus track.

By Michael Rainwater, updated Summer 2026.

A retake under time pressure, with something riding on it, is a different problem from a first attempt. For how the course runs in a regular semester, see How to Pass MATH 1113 at UGA.

Why a summer retake makes sense

MATH 1113 (Precalculus) is a prerequisite gate. Until it’s cleared, calculus is blocked, and a blocked calculus course can delay your major sequence and your graduation, and in some cases turn into a HOPE/Zell GPA problem.

A compressed summer session lets you clear the gate before fall and get back on schedule, and that’s often the right call. But consider what you’re signing up for:

You are retaking a course you already struggled with, in a format that gives you less time than the one you struggled in the first time.

If nothing changes about how you approach it, the compressed timeline tends to produce the same result, faster. Take that in before you register.

The mistake that causes the repeat

Most failed retakes go like this. The student treats the second attempt as “the same thing again, but I’ll try harder.” They sit through the whole course again, hit the same weak point as last time (usually a specific gap in function notation, trig identities, logarithms or the speed of their algebra), and run out of recovery time even sooner.

The students who break the pattern find out where it broke last time before the retake starts, and spend their preparation on that instead of re-reviewing material they already know.

That’s the reason I start with a diagnostic, and it matters more for a retake than almost anywhere else, because the first attempt is already data. A diagnostic turns “I’m just bad at math” into “my weak point is X.” “I’m bad at math” can’t be fixed in six weeks. “My log rules and my unit circle are shaky” can.

If you’re retaking MATH 1113, the most useful thing you can do before registering is find the topic that broke you the first time. I run this diagnostic regularly for UGA precalc retakers. Tell me what happened the first time →

Who’s well placed for a summer retake

Students who can say what went wrong the first time (attendance, a specific topic, pace, test anxiety, life circumstances).
Students treating the retake as their main summer commitment.
Students who deal with the gap before the term, so the compressed weeks reinforce rather than re-teach.

Who should think harder before registering

Students who don’t know why they failed the first time. That’s the riskiest position in a compressed retake, and it’s the one a diagnostic helps most.
Students pairing it with another hard course in the same session.

Where that leaves you

A summer MATH 1113 retake is one of the best ways to get back on track at UGA, if the second attempt is set up differently from the first. The same effort aimed at the same blind spot gets the same grade, so find the blind spot first.

Retaking MATH 1113 this summer?

You already have the most useful diagnostic data there is: a first attempt. Work out what to do differently before the compressed term starts, not in week three when there’s little time left to recover. Tell me what happened the first time and I’ll tell you plainly what a different second attempt would look like.

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