The UA math department has created a new system for teaching its calculus students-if students miss 2 out of 12 questions, they are dropped.

While most departments on campus would recognize 10 out of 12 as a passing score of 83 percent, a new math department exam allows teachers to drop Math 129 students who miss two questions on a test given early in the semester.

Known as the Gateway Exam, the test was created because Math 124 was not preparing students adequately for the rigors of second-semester calculus.