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  Getting over testing anxiety
Posted by: TheIronLurp - 09-21-2011, 09:50 PM - Forum: General Education-Related Discussion - Replies (7)

Hello. I was looking to clep some credits and I cam across this site. Since I am here I thought I would post a question. How can you help prevent test anxiety. A large reason that I fail or struggle so much passing classes is because i sit down to take the test and my brain goes on holiday. I blank and can think of nothing in the least bit relevant to the test I am taking. A good example is back when I was in high school I sat down to take a calculus test and all I could think of is random facts about US history all of which were the answers to the American History test I took a week ago (on which I had the same problem.) I was wondering if anyone else had this problem and what they do about it. Any and all advice is appreciated. Thanks.

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  100% Omg....
Posted by: burbuja0512 - 09-21-2011, 09:17 PM - Forum: Off Topic - Replies (11)

I just had to share this story for a couple of reasons:
1) I'm totally in shock and wanted to share Wink
2) Just in case it helps anyone here who would be in the same situation

So here's the story..This weekend, I had a big paper due and unfortunately I ended up with the absolute worst food poisoning of my life. Yes I spent Friday night in the ER. Sad

Saturday I was still too sick to consider writing my paper and Sunday I didn't feel a lot better. However, I knew that I had to turn it in by Sunday evening, so I forced myself to do it.

This paper would have been hard enough in my condition, but it was covering a topic that didn't particularly interest me about two articles that I hadn't even finished reading. Not to mention that as you probably already know from my many other posts, my paper had to be written in Spanish. I really struggle in Spanish when I'm sick or tired, so all-in-all it was just a TERRIBLE paper. I was embarrassed to turn it in, but after a couple of miserable hours working on it, I briefly considered scanning a copy of my ER paperwork to explain the poor work, but knowing that teachers get excuses by the dozen, I just decided to suck it up and accept the bad grade that I would inevitably get.

Well.. yesterday our teacher posted on the class forum and said that he wasn't going to grade our papers from the weekend until we emailed him and analyzed our work based on his original criteria, told him what we should be graded and why. (I guess none of us did a good job!) Anyhow, I again considered scanning my ER paperwork and just saying "sorry I know it's bad, but I was deathly ill." Anyhow, instead I sent an honest critique of the paper, explaining exactly what I did wrong and why the paper was only a partial response to the initial assignment. I explained what I should do better if I were to re-write the paper and told him that at best, if he was very feeling generous, I should be graded an 80%.

I got my score this evening with 100% Smile Turns out that no one did a good job and that the only ones that ended up with passing grades were those of us who were entirely honest and able to see where we went wrong. OMG.. I'm still totally in disbelief.

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  Khan Academy
Posted by: gmagerr - 09-21-2011, 06:55 PM - Forum: [ARCHIVE] Excelsior, Thomas Edison, and Charter Oak Specific Discussion - Replies (6)

I've received so much help and guidance here, I wanted to give something back. I struggled with Algebra for a long time. A co-worker mentioned this site, I went there, watched a few videos, and I was hooked! It's totally free (you can contribute if you's like). Sal has an amazing gift of making the most complex topics easy to understand. BTW, it's so much more than just Algebra tutorials.

Khan Academy

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  The new shorter version Excelsior exams...
Posted by: LOC4ME - 09-21-2011, 03:46 PM - Forum: [ARCHIVE] Excelsior, Thomas Edison, and Charter Oak Specific Discussion - Replies (2)

Are they still considered Upper Level? I read on another thread that they may be lower level?

I really (and I'm sure others) need these to still be UL!

Anyone know? Or have a link I can go to?

TIA

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  Question about COMPTIA A+ NETWORK+
Posted by: ronaldemail1 - 09-21-2011, 02:25 PM - Forum: [ARCHIVE] Excelsior, Thomas Edison, and Charter Oak Specific Discussion - Replies (16)

Has anybody taken any of these recently, I am trying to take
them by Monday next week.

How do you submit the results to Tesc, Notarized copies
to the Tesc address or have they already improved this
and you just need to provide the code or the name of
the college like clep or dsst ?

Thank you in advance for your replies.

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  TESC Evaluation Advice PLEASE HELP!!!!
Posted by: bsinsc - 09-21-2011, 01:26 PM - Forum: [ARCHIVE] Excelsior, Thomas Edison, and Charter Oak Specific Discussion - Replies (7)

Ok, I am waiting on my evaluation from TESC and am hoping to be able to graduate with the 10/1 deadline. I talked to the registrar yesterday and they told me the evaluation might be done in the next couple of weeks!!, so I need to make sure all of my bases are covered....Can somebody look at what I have here and tell me if this looks right?? Thanks!!!

Bachelor of Arts Liberal Studies



English: Regents College Comp. or Clep College Comp. ( I have both)



Humanities 12 cr: HUM 101 (clep humanities) 6 cr. and LIT 291(clep a/i lit) 6 cr.



Social Sciences 12 cr: HIS 113 (us history 1) 3 cr, HIS 114 (us history 2) 3 cr, SOS 101 (clep social science and history)6 cr.



Math 3 cr: Aleks Intermediate Algebra



Natural Sciences 9 cr: BIO 210 (A & P) 4 cr. THIS WAS A D!!! WILL THEY LEAVE IT HERE?? ENS 201 (environement and humanity) 3 cr and Aleks College Algebra



General Education 18 cr: SOC 101(clep sociology) 3 cr, LIT 111 (clep american lit) 6 cr, ART 166 (dsst art of western world) 3 cr, Aleks Stats and Aleks Pre-Cal.



Liberal Studies 18 cr UL>>> PSY 583 (victim assistance) 3 cr, SOS 305 (dsst drug and alcohol abuse) 3 cr, REL 405 (dsst world religions) 3 cr, HIS 386 (dsst soviet union) 3 cr, HIS 309 (modern middle east) 3 cr and hopefully vietnam or use PSY 308 from below??!!



15 cr ( 6 at 100 level): HIS 222 (dsst western europe) 3 cr, PHI 287 (dsst ethics) 3 cr, HIS252 (dsst civil war) 3 cr, ENG 201 (dsst technical writing) 3 cr NEED ONE MORE HERE!!!!



Free Electives: Fema 17 cr, HEA 103 (dsst here's to your health) 3 cr, CAEL 100 (prior learning assessment and theory) 3 cr



WHERE WILL THESE GO?

PLA 102 (prior learning assessment) like CAEL 100 but different letters/numbers will they let me have both?

COL 103 (college skills) free elective?



WAITING ON APPROVAL FROM CAEL TO GO ON ACE TRANSCRIPT:

CARD 205 (ekg) free elective

AHS 350 (medical terminology) free elective

PSY 308 (health psychology) ??????

COM 270 (health communication) ?????

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  health policy and law
Posted by: ffdpsoldier - 09-20-2011, 09:05 PM - Forum: General Education-Related Discussion - Replies (1)

I'm in a. US health policy and law class, they want a 15pg paper on the health policy of state or national laws that relates to kids nutrition, fastfood, schools ect. I'm not a healthcare major so I have no idea where to start looking or how to write anything that long. Its the last requirement for my degree besides a couple electives. The paper isn't due til november so I have time. I already finished 2 other classes final projects because I felt froggy. Any ideas for sources, sites books journals. Or a good outline may be

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  Textbooks for Exam prep
Posted by: lawqueen04 - 09-20-2011, 12:59 PM - Forum: [ARCHIVE] Excelsior, Thomas Edison, and Charter Oak Specific Discussion - Replies (3)

Has anybody purchased older editions of the "required" textbooks to use for prep for eces or tesce?

I was looking at the prices and some are like $100 and $200 each

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  Graduate School Terms
Posted by: NAP - 09-20-2011, 12:44 PM - Forum: General Education-Related Discussion - Replies (14)

I have noticed in the list of prerequisites at some graduate programs that they say something similar to “some knowledge of”. For instance, one states “some knowledge of matrix algebra”, which from my understanding is normally part of a course called linear algebra.

Does anyone have any experience with this type of situation? Can I assume that a course is not required, since the list does have required courses also? If I learn about it on my own (books/websites), would I be expected to prove it in some way without an official transcript? If so, how would I do this?

Thanks for your help!

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  TSEC Commencement October 15, 2011
Posted by: plunkjunket - 09-20-2011, 06:54 AM - Forum: [ARCHIVE] Excelsior, Thomas Edison, and Charter Oak Specific Discussion - Replies (8)

Is anyone on this forum attending TESC October 15, 2011commencement?

Would you like to meet up?

I have earned a BALS and decided to don the cap and gown.
This will be my first time on campus so it will be a bit special.

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