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10-05-2013, 10:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-05-2013, 11:21 PM by Maniac Craniac.)
In the past month, I tortured myself with 17 FEMAs banghead, loved every moment of studying for while only managing to pull a B on the Introduction to Philosophy ECE banghead, missed the October 1 deadline for December graduation by a few freaking days banghead
But took my last exam tonight and finally finished the darn thing!!! :hurray:
The DSST Money & Banking was such an odd experience. A wild mix of common sense and just plain impossible questions. There were many questions that were ambiguously worded and many others that were overloaded with much higher level jargon than any of my study materials addressed. Most of my answers came down to eliminating as many wrong choices as I could reason from the inadequate knowledge that I had to actually address the question's content.
I ended up with a 58- which means that I didn't merely pass DSST, I lapped it several times over.
Too many people here to thank by name. You, my dear friends at DF have all (with a few exceptions) been awesome and instrumental to my progress, even as I have been scarcely posting here.
Thank you - thank you - thank you - thank you - thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!cheersmate It's aboout time you finished.hilarious So when do you start on your Masters?
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Great news. Congratulations on your amazing achievement.
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Congrats MC....nice to start checking that box!
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CONGRATS!!!! I'm so happy to see that you're done!!! MC - you are a great example to everyone who thinks that a "testing" degree needs to be completed in a certain (short) time frame. That's the beauty of CLEP/DSST. You are in control and as long as you stay committed to continuing, you will get it done! Besides, some people spend 6+ years and tens of thousands of dollars on a traditional degree. You are way ahead of them.
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I'm glad you've been making progress! Congratulations on earning your second college degree!
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Congrats for persevering and finishing!!
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Congratulations! Submit your paperwork for the December graduation anyway. TESC is very good at processing the paperwork even after their advertised deadlines.
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Well done! Glad to see your success! This forum and the knowledge and wisdom here has saved me thousands in my education costs along with being encouraging to keep pressing on.
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And I was JUST WONDERING to myself when Maniac might actually finish that darn degree! CONGRATULATIONS my friend! Happy to celebrate this success with you~
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