I need 21 upper level Arts and Sciences units to complete a BS in Liberal Arts at Excelsior college.

I'm thinking of using the ECE exams below to complete my degree:

world population
psychology of adulthood and aging
foundations of gerontology
juvenile delinquency
social psychology
organizational behavior
religions of the world

Are there better choices for quick preparation? I do not have a management background, so I'm not sure I should try the organizational behavior exam. I also found one thread that said the religions of the world exam takes lots of preparation because it is an essay exam.
I haven't found one post from anyone who had anything to say about the juvenile delinquency exam.

I also noticed that there are any not instant cert prep guides available that are designed for ECE exams.
Excelsior only has practice exams or guided study packages for three of the exam choices above (Abnormal Psychology, Foundations of Gerontology and Organizational Behavior.)

Any recommendations?

Hello. This is the first time posting but I have been reading other posts in this forum and I have found them very helpful. I found this site searching for additional information on CLEP exams after failing my last English composition CLEP with a 46. I can't tell you how disappointed I was. Now here I am again taking a different CLEP and trying my luck again. I'm certainly not looking forward to the experience again and since I failed the last exam I am feeling extremely nervous. I guess I should get to the point. I will be taking Humanities Friday morning and I have been studying off and on for sometime being that I am attending classes through the University of Phoenix. I have been studying with IC, Comex book (CLEP humanities) as well as using wikipedia for additional research. I have also used this forum search features. I have studied so many areas in preparation for the exam. As experienced CLEP takers do you think these resources have assisted you in passing and do you have any additional pointers before I dive in to this test in a few days?:confused:

I need 4 exams to complete my degree and 2 of these will have to be Math/Statistics and College Writing.
I am Math-phobic and very nervous to even start studying.I want to complete my degree by March 15 and was wondering if there is any course i can take for Math/Statistics.A short course that i can start now and complete by March..with no proctored exam of coursehilarious
Also the same for English but most important for me now is to get rid of Math.
Please help
Adoncia

I doubt that I have much to offer that hasn’t already been posted on the forum but on the off chance that I do include something that is of help to someone here is my experience with the statistics test. Keep in mind, I passed with a 61 but as my score suggests, I am no authority on the subject and I freely admit that I went into this test under prepared. This is definitely not something that I would suggest.

Test – Statistics Computerized Version
Questions – 100 (the test actually has from 1 to 101 questions but question 1 is information only (z table data etc) and doesn’t require an answer)
Time – 120 minutes
Other – Calculator was allowed (didn’t look for or even notice if there was an online calculator)

General Observations

There was no easing into the questions. The first two questions I faced were possibly the most difficult questions on the test (for me at least with my limited preparation) and could have quite easily set the tone for the rest of the test if I had allowed it to. I guessed and moved on. Of the first 10 questions I was only sure of answering 2 correctly and can understand how some people may have considered abandoning the rest of the test, but luckily it wasn’t all like that. I found that the time allowed was adequate but I did keep a close eye on the clock as I wasn’t expecting to finish with much spare time left.

My Savior

Being under prepared and getting off to a slow start was a worry but there were a few things that saved me. I am pretty good at the probability questions and there were a few like

You have a box with 7 red balls, 8 blue balls and 10 green balls. If you randomly select a ball 1000 times, placing it back in the box each time, approximately how many red balls would you expect to have selected.

You toss a coin 1000 times what is the probability of getting exactly 1 head.

You have two independent events. Event A has a probability of 0.6 while event B has a probability of 0.3. What is the probability of both/neither happening etc.

There were also a number of probability questions that contained obvious wrong answers such as using the word exactly, for example

You have a standard fair coin that has a probability of 0.5 for heads and 0.5 for tails. If you toss the coin 1000 times how many heads will you get?
Exactly 500
Approximately 500
etc

There were a number of simple graphing questions such as;

A distribution curve skewed to the right with a question asking which is bigger the median or the mean
A scatter plot (and there were a few of these) asking if relationship was positive or negative or none
A stem plot asking for the median, mean or mode

There were also a number of simple descriptive statistics questions such as

Of the following sets of numbers which has the largest standard deviation
Of the following sets of numbers which has the smallest mean

There were plenty of questions on significance, hypothesis, confidence intervals and regression lines.

I was lucky enough to find enough questions in my comfort zones and/or lucky with my guessing but I did manage to get through it. My recommendations are:

Be as well prepared as you possibly can be
Do not panic even if things seem to start badly
Read every question carefully (there was a question like - the mean of set 1 is 27, the mean of set 2 is 33, what is the median of set 3)
Believe in your ability

Best of luck to all

Regards

Hello Guys,
I am so excited to have a forum like this available and so much help from everyone on the board. I always said i would finish my degree and wouldn't break the bank doing it. I am preparing to take my first 2 cleps next week and wanted to know your thoughts. Do you think i would be okay taking english 2 and sociology together? I am pretty good at english, its the essay part i am worried about, i haven't written an essay in years. Any advice would greatly be appreciated. Thanks in advance guys!!

Hi all..just got back from taking the online DSST Ethics and I passed with a 68IC was all I used and all that I feel is needed, I studied for approx 20-25 hrs.

Utilitarianism is BIG on the exam...and those dreaded YES/NO questions :eek: My suggestions are the following:


Know:
Kant
Hobbes
Aristotle, Socrates and Plato....I found these to be quite confusing
Most definitely all the different utilitarianisms
Locke
Epicurus
Epictetus

Instant Cert has it all and is wonderful....on that note I am bidding IC adieu as the remainder of my courses are all Nursing, only 3 to go...Thank you all for all of your help and support....keep on keepin on....hilarious

Hi,

I'm currently working on my BA/BS and want to enroll soon to Excelsior.
I already wrote my Master thesis with UoP (got an A).

Does anybody have experiance what I would need to do so Excelsior counts this course towards the WER?

(The unofficial evaluation which I got back today, did not count it towards the WER. )

Hope somebody has a hint for me, because I don't want to write the ECE Exam for English:eek: .

THANKS,

kckusek

I have gone through the flashcards from IC and luckily, a majority of the information provided on IC seems pretty fimiliar since I have already taken several finance classes, economic classes, and CLEPs. I will continue to review the information and pay for the DSST test that their website offers.

My question is, once you pay for the test off of the DSST website, can you print them out, or are they only online like the Peterson's test?

Any other tips and suggestions on this test would be appreciated. I have searched through the forum and found a couple of post that give some insight to the test.

Just wanted to let the community know I passed Human Growth and Development with a 68!! I studied for about 4 days, roughly 20 to 25 hours. A number of the questions seemed to come directly from IC. It was funny the number I answered that matched the IC flashcards. This was my 4th CLEP in 9 weeks. College is fun!!

Helpful hint: Get the REA: Human Growth and Development book and go through the IC flashcards and you will do fine.

Hello All,

This forum has been of extreme value in my effort to get my diploma. As a lurker I have found the advice offered to be thoroughly accurate and prudent. Therefore I've decided to break my silence and come forward with a question.

I recently discovered that I'm shy three credits of graduation. All I need to do is to fulfill a computer proficiency elective. I noticed that DSST offers an exam titled, Introduction to Computing. Unfortunately InstantCert does not offer flash cards for this exam. They do however offer assistance with the CLEP and DSST for exams pertaining to Information Systems and Computer Applications. My questions are:

1. Has anyone taken any of the above mentioned exams, and if so how would they describe the level of difficulty for each? My knowledge of computers is about the equivalent of the average office worker.

2. Would anyone recommend preparing for the CLEP or DSST in Information Systems and Computer Applications in lieu of Introduction to Computing?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Jason :confused: