Looking for Recommendations/Advice for Newbie

[backpacker]

I love Straighterline for what it is but you cannot beat CLEP and DSST tests for transferability. SL courses are ACE approved and many schools do not accept them. Yes TESC does but if you want to get into a MBA program after you graduate, the graduate school will most likely not recognize your undergrad SL courses and force you to take tons of remedial foundation courses at a high cost to you in time and money. That will not happen with CLEP and DSST credit.

So I would go grab some REA books from Amazon or your local library or book store and get to reading..

Resist the urge to study practice questions and test as soon as you are at 51% knowledge. Read the book and soak in the material. Most of the books are only 150 small pages and can be read in around 6 hours. I read many of mine on the elliptical.

Do you thing having ACE credits would be a problem with an SL partner?
My ultimate goal is an MSIA at UMUC

[jdavism]

I took everyone's advice and only signed up for one Striaghterline course, as I mentioned I really wasn't sure what to expect so wanted to take the time to check it out. After I signed up I truthfully became impatient and decided to take a graded quiz to see what to expect etc. From my perspective the non-graded quizzes of 5 questions weren't really a help to me. Especially since they are two answer multiple choice.

That said, when I started the graded quiz I found that it was somewhat challenging though I found that through using the textbook indexes and glossary I was able to find all the answers. I scored a 96% on the first and decided to keep pushing using the same strategy. I didn't read any of the chapters and passed all the tests up to the required proctored final yesterday. (96%, 92%, 88%, 84%, 84%) I did the final via PoctorU last night and finished the course with a 87.5% in 24 hours total.

My question is, I assume this strategy only worked because this was probably a rudimentary course. (BUS101 Introduction to Business) From everyone's experience would this strategy work with any other courses in your opinion? Or do you find that you can actually do that with all the courses?

Also, I'm intrigued to try to DSST or CLEP a course to see how it compares. Do you find that going the CLEP route by studying the REA books is easier than going through Straighterline? I know you said that the books were small and it sounded easy enough. Since I basically am starting from scratch would you suggest that I buy the CLEP General Exams book that covers multiple CLEPs and work on that or just buy topic by topic?

As you can tell, I'm still trying to work my way through getting started and getting this finished ASAP as efficiently as possible.

Thank you in advance for any help.

[BIPolarGuy]

I did the same thing with my cost accounting and us history 1 courses. I only had an EBook for the History course though, but the proctor allowed the search feature in the book so "that was easy". each done in 2 days. (about 10 hours of time on each- total)