Hi, I'm new to the forums and was wondering if anyone had any experience with the ECE Nursing Exams?

I've recently taken A&I Lit, Sociology, Psychology, Lifespan Psychology, and American History 1 through Clep and Dantes. Now I'm going to start taking the ECE test and was wondering what to expect.

Also how accurate are the "study guides" that Excelsior provides? I've purchased the text books but I'm feeling slightly overwhelmed. A little guidance and a good place to start would help greatly.

Thanks for any help,
Justin.

Has anyone taken this test, it's for Graduate Admissions.

Wooohooo! 6 semester hours in one day! What an exhilerating feeling... My girlfriend Anna and I have been studying for Educational Psychology off and on around Christmas, and we were finally ready this Wednesday. But, the testing centers just weren't back together after the Christmas break, so when they couldn't take us Wednesday, we decided to try two exams at once. We started studying Fundamentals of Counseling Wednesday afternoon, and this morning we went to tackle both exams...

It really went great. It was a good bit of time to stay focused intently, but we did Edu. Psych in about 1 1/2 hours, and although Fund. of Counseling was a little harder, it only took 45 minutes. We studied for 10-12 hours for Edu. Psych. and 8-10 hours for Fund. of Couns., just trying to learn enough to pass (with IC only). We started with Edu. Psych. and it was pretty much as expected, and IC was more than enough for that exam. It's a straightforward exam that isn't very "deep", so if you know the facts/names/definitions/terms from IC, along with a little educated guessing, you'll pass easily.

Fund. of Counseling was fine too, although it was harder that Edu. Psych, as I thought. The IC material was full of many more names, dates, facts, terms, etc. than Psych, but we managed to get by with just IC.

Scores:
Edu Psych:
David 62 (50 was passing)
Anna 68
Fund. of Couns.
David 52 (45 was passing)
Anna 60

And no comments about who scored (and scores consistently!) higher than the other. :o)

So, I'd recommend both of these exams as easy to average, straightforward, and defintely doable with just IC if you go over the material thoroughly.

Thanks for all the help folks,
David (and Anna)

PS Final count: Anna only has one class left!!! Criminal Justice is scheduled for next week, then she's done!
And, I'm down to 13 tests to take (including one 6 hr).

I posted earlier that I took the Here's to Your Health test yesterday, and passed with a 60. Mr. Moderator said it would be nice to post some pointers about the test. So here goes...

I took the computerized test, which from posts I had read, thought may be more difficult than the pencil/paper exam was. It's hard to judge, not knowing how the old test was, but I think this probably was harder.

Things that I think helped me were: 1 - IC and 2 - a college level General Health book, and 3 - lots of studying!

On the test, there seemed to be a lot of questions about different types of birth control and contreceptives. Also questions about illegal drugs. There were more "symptom" questions that I expected, questions that asked you like for example "If you have diabetes, what would your symptoms be?" It wasn't enough to know that diabetes is a problem caused from insulin issues.

This was my 1st test in 15 yrs. So that may be why I thought it was hard, I don't know. Anyway whoever's next - I hope this helps.

Valinda
:eek:

Has anyone here considered Athabasca rather than the big 3? Given that their program allows 100% transfer credit (like the big 3) but is only 90 credits (rather than 120 @ COSC, Excelsior and TESC) - I would be curious to see if anyone has leveraged their program using IC.

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Bachelor of General Studies, Athabasca University 2006|07

I'm deciding to take the Intro to Educational Psychology exam. I took the Intro to Psychology exam 3 weeks ago and got a 62. I am planning on taking this exam on tuesday. If I don't pass this then I am going to start grad school in the fall. Anyways from what I understand the Ed. Psychology overlaps with with regular Psychology. Does anyone have any experience with this exam?

I am attempting to max out the number of credits that Saint Leo University will take. This is coincidentally the exact number of classes I can test out of that I still need. I am tring to figure out the best order to take these in, or if not a specific order than which tests I should group together.

I've already taken Principles of Management, Human Resources Management, and Organizational Behavior. I found that there was a lot of overlap between these three tests.

I passed the Principles of Statistics yesterday and was wondering what I should focus on next.

The tests I still need to take are:
-Management Information Systems
-Principles of Finance
-Principles of Accounting
-Principles of Marketing
-Introduction to Business Law
-Macroeconomics
-Microeconomics
-American Literature

Any ideas or suggestions?

Hi,
Do i need to know the DSM Chart for Mental Disorders?
I have my exam on Saturday and feel very unprepared.
Thanks,
Adoncia

Hello all,

I have not clepped an upper level exam yet and was wondering what the easiest one is....Any help I can get, I would really appreciate it! Thanks a bunch

I am planning to take the test for American gov't very soon. I know all of the instantcert questions (score around 97%) and I took the 3 practice peterson tests and scored 54, 54 and 57.. I am confused on why I would be getting 100% on instantcerts questions and so low on the peterson tests?????? Which one of these is more accurate towards what I should expect on the test?

And is instantcert enough to pass this test alone? I have read another thread where someone said it is not.. But Instantcert says it is.. any advice???

PS: Does anyone know where I can find the 50 free practice questions for american government that college board gives out? I remember seeing a link on some thread in this forum, but now I cannot find it..

Thanks so much for your help!