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Sophia English Composition II Experience
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I'll add my recent experience with this course. I took English I at Sophia and found it fairly easy, the writing assignments were interesting, and I enjoyed it. Then I enrolled in English II. First Touchstone was great; I got an A. Second Touchstone, I received a 50, reset it, and did it again. The graders are very inconsistent. If one tells you to change something about your essay, another will take off points if you change it. Even if I got the same grader for a draft and then a revision, changing what they told me to, the final essay would have completely different feedback. I'm guessing they grade so much that they can't remember how they graded your paper and what they asked you to change. I followed the rubric, and I still prayed every time I opened up a graded Touchstone. However, if I got a bad grade, I just had a learning coach reset it through the Chat feature, and I corrected it and resubmitted it. Managed to pass it with an A after 3 weeks of writing.....got my final essay grade 1 day before my subscription ended.
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#12
For TESU students, the English Comp TECEPs aren't too bad. If you are a fast typist, I would absolutely recommend the English Comp II TECEP over Sophia. It's a strange exam, but not overly difficult. Much faster and less stress than the inconsistent grading of Sophia.
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Yikes, I'm nervous. Yesterday my son took and passed the CLEP English Comp. Modular exam to fulfill the ENGL 1301 course requirement at TAMUC. He still needs ENGL 1302 and we had planned to take it through SOPHIA. After reading the posts here I'm nervous for him. Is there another option? Is there another CLEP exam he could take instead? I'm not familiar with TECEP. How much trouble would it be for him to try that?

Thanks for your help!
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I'm not sure if TAMUC will take TECEPs. I would guess yes, but not sure. Each LL exam is $52/credit these days.

If he had taken the full CLEP English Comp exam, it might have counted for both English Comp I and II. But I'm not sure if TAMUC awards credit for the full exam. There might be a SDC course that would work, but I'm not sure which English Comp II class they might accept (SDC has two versions). ASU has an English Comp II course that's $25+$400, but I don't think it's self-paced right now and it's a lot more work than the others. Less hassle, but more work.
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TESU - BA Computer Science; BSBA CIS; ASNSM Math & CS; ASBA

Completed:
Pierpont - AAS BOG
Sophia (so many), The Institutes (old), Study.com (5 courses)
ASU: Human Origins, Astronomy, Intro Health & Wellness, Western Civilization, Computer Appls & Info Technology, Intro Programming
Strayer: CIS175, CIS111, WRK100, MAT210
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@agsfisher, Modular most of the time is only worth 3 credits, the one with essay can be worth up to 6 credits, depending on the institution... I would do the exam again with the Modern States voucher for the one with essay just for the extra credits and for 'review'. It really depends on what you're looking at to finish cheap, easy, fast...
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