I've got the passyourclass and the IC materials. Do you think with 1-2 hours of study per day this test can be passed? I am freaking out that I let this much time lapse already...

I am currently enrolled at Excelsior College and am trying to finish my Bachelor's Degree in General Business as quickly as possible. I know there is a test that satisfies all the core business requirements EXCEPT it seems Managerial Accounting. Is it true that there is no CLEP, ECE, DSST or TECEP test that will fulfill that core requirement? If there is a test, which would fulfill that requirement? The Excelsior College business advisor said I would have to take a course to fulfill it. If someone knows the answer to these questions, please let me know as soon as possible. If I have to take a course, I have to register for it through Excelsior by August 31, 2007. Thanks for your help!

I am going to take the College Algebra CLEP soon and need some advice. Is college algebra really that different from Algebra II? Also, what books are best to study with? Is there anything online that I could use (preferably free)?

Hi everyone,

For those of you who haven't already heard, Matymus (Matt) and his wife are expecting their first child any day now.

Matt has been studying for the CLEP College Algebra exam. Today Matt told me that he is planning to take the exam during his "week off" after the baby comes! Being a mother myself, I laughed and told him he'd better plan on taking that exam BEFORE the baby comes, because for the first week afterwards his wife will want him home 24/7 (my opinion anyway). After reading Matt's reply to this, I told him I was going to post it in the forum, and I meant it! Matt's reply...

"Also...for the record, regarding Algebra....it was Christa who suggested me taking it during my week off. I said to her, "Darling dearie poo, are you SURE you're willing to let me go for a few hours so I can get this exam done?" She said......"Absolutely, my dear dew drop." So...there you have it.........HER IDEA. Not mine. Any blame for whatever may go wrong canNOT be placed upon me. I am absolved."

So my question to all of you (especially parents and/or those of you who have taken that exam): Do you think Matt should take his CLEP College Algebra exam NOW...or wait until after the baby is born??

(Any stories from your own experiences as a first-time parent are welcomed. We need to let Matt know what he has to look forward to! :eek.

JoAnne

I just returned from taking the college math clep and I passed it with a 62. I spent about 2 1/2 weeks studying for this exam. I used Cracking the Clep and the Collegeboard study guide only. The test was fairly easy.

For a moment I was alittle confused because I was expecting to see more probability questions than what was on there. Maybe they were on there, but they were so easy that I didn't think of them as probability questions. No dice or card questions was on my test. I had exactly one question on domain and range. I had no function graphs at all. The test was so different than what I expected from the study material that I used. It was actually kind of easy to me. There were a few questions that I had to guess on like the Standard Deviation ones but overall, it was a pretty ok test.

Some of the logic statements had two parts, for example:
I. When it is Saturday and sunny Ben goes to the beach
II. Ben does not go to the beach
It then goes on to say that both statements are true and to pick one that goes with it from the choices below.

For anyone who may be stressing about taking this test, don't. I is a lot easier than you expect it to be. Good luck.

Next for me is the Natural Science CLEP. Wish me luck.

I am planning to enroll this week in the CSU-Pueblo course for Management Strategy (MGMT 485). There has been some discussion on the board about this course. Has anyone else taken the course yet?

I'm a student at Charter Oak. Similar to Excelsior, all COSC Business Admin students must fulfill a requirement for Strategic Process/Business Policy, but the TECEP exam was not approved by my advisor. Charter Oak has an online course, but it is not self-paced. I really need a self-paced course so that I don't have conflicts with my job. I'd love to hear advice from someone who has taken the course from CSU-Pueblo. And if no one else is out there - I guess I'll be the first!

i know that there were previous threads regarding this, but has anyone taken it / passed it?

I'm allotting myself a month or so to study this before I take this test, so just wondering if theres hope for me...

All I can say is Holy _#*^!!!. Instant Cert is a good foundation but falls short for this exam. Even the ECE practice exams which I scored 69 and 78 on a week prior to the exam..with much study afterwards was nothing compared to the exam, IMO were insufficient . I studied IC and the Practice exams til I knew them inside and out. Seems like the actual exam was taken to a whole new level. Now I'm hoping for a "C" so I won't have to kick in Word Population as a backup. It will be a long painful week until I get the results. Oh well, not much I can do about it now. At this point I cant even give good pointers my brain is fried.

Okay, I am trying to decide which one to take first. My mom wants me to take College Algebra this summer since I just finished Algbra II. On the other hand my cousins think I ought to take Principles of Management first to kind of get my feet wet and see what the testing center is like. Math has always been my "thing" and the course I took was one of the hardest ones available. I've looked through a practice College Algebra test and I only saw one or two questions that weren't covered in my Algebra course. What do y'all think I ought to do?:confused:

All of the following posts that have been copied & pasted into this thread were originally included in a "Diploma Rant" thread. Kate (Librevore) made an excellent suggestion that these posts should be broken out into a thread with a more applicable title, so the comments don't get "lost" in an unrelated thread.

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Originally posted by cinderly on 07/15/07:

Quote:It actually depends on the employer. Most seem to verify degrees by either (a) calling the school or (b) asking for transcripts.

My concern has more to do with the networking aspect of work -- will my friends, neighbors, or coworkers be less likely to put me in contact with the person who can get me my next job if they think I have a diploma-mill degree, and how much does the appearance of the diploma itself play into that?

The Other Human's HR specialist sister-in-law is the source of most of the "write-away diploma" snobbery -- her field of specialization gives me concern as to how widespread these attitudes are.

I'm still on the fence -- graded DSSTs, credit for GRE, and ease of use were all reasons I chose EC over TESC in the first place. On the other hand, I'm trying to change careers, so I *am* concerned about what sort of perception non-distance-learners have of a given school.