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I thought I'd give a review of this TECEP since they made minor changes to it recently.
From the test description:
100 multiple choice questions
Passing score is 65%
2 hours to complete
Nutrition basics 20%
Macronutrients 20%
Metabolism 20%
Micronutrients 20%
Nutrition applied to various life conditions 20%
I spent a total of seven hours studying for this test because I can rarely make myself study for anything until the last minute. I did not buy the recommended textbooks, and I don't think you need them. The questions didn't seem to be specific to any text. TESC has two different sets of recommended, free online study resources. Only one resource is listed on both. I used two of the resources listed in this document.
http://www.tesc.edu/degree-completion/do..._TECEP.pdf
I didn't use any of the ones in the test description because they either covered too little or would take too long to read.
http://www2.tesc.edu/tecep_desc/BIO-208.pdf
The two resources I used were a nutrition chapter in an open anatomy and physiology text and Kansas State University's open flexbook on nutrition. The flexbook is a relatively quick read; I spent five hours reading it. The rest of my study time was spent on the anatomy and physiology text. I knew I was missing information on consumer safety, nutrition throughout the life cycle, and dietary guidelines. You can cover those in a few chapters of another open textbook TESC recommends, but I didn't have time to get to it. Even without much coverage of those topics, I finished the exam in 35 min. and scored a 74%. If you cover all of the topics in the test description, I would put this test in the moderately easy category. I only had to do one calculation, which I did in my head. The most difficult part about studying nutrition is memorizing how the many different macronutrients and micronutrients are absorbed, and there weren't too many questions on that.
I spent more time studying for the Biology CLEP. While it's a 6-credit test, it's still 100-level. However, I would say that test is more difficult than this TECEP, in my opinion. The average person knows more about the basics of nutrition due to media exposure than ecology and molecular, cellular, and evolutionary biology.
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Great feedback!
I'll add a comment. My TECEP was the older one, but my master's is in nutrition, and a hurdle a person MAY have to climb when they study biology based nutrition is to try and un-learn much of the nutrition fiction from the media. A lot of what is in the press is complete fantasy- made up by someone to sell a product. For that reason, a young person may do better at this than an adult who has absorbed a few decades of myths lol.
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cookderosa Wrote:Great feedback!
I'll add a comment. My TECEP was the older one, but my master's is in nutrition, and a hurdle a person MAY have to climb when they study biology based nutrition is to try and un-learn much of the nutrition fiction from the media. A lot of what is in the press is complete fantasy- made up by someone to sell a product. For that reason, a young person may do better at this than an adult who has absorbed a few decades of myths lol.
There has been a lot of research that has been debunked in the past 10 or 15 years, and this is research that came from trustworthy sources. Maybe the current research will be debunked in the future, but that is what we have to go off of now. When it comes to health, findings are always changing as better research methods are developed.
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DSST
Life Dev Psych 62, Fund Coun 68, Intro Comp 469, Intro Astr 56, Env & Hum 70, HTYH 456, MIS 451, Prin Sup 453, HRM 62, Bus Eth 458
ALEKS
Int Alg, Coll Alg
TEEX
4 credits
TECEP
Fed Inc Tax, Sci of Nutr, Micro, Strat Man, Med Term, Pub Relations
CSU
Sys Analysis & Design, Programming, Cyber
SL
Intro to Comm, Microbio, Acc I
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I followed Sanantone's advice and passed this puppy with 2hrs/5days of study.
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dseminario1 Wrote:I followed Sanantone's advice and passed this puppy with 2hrs/5days of study.
Congratulations!
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AAS, AS, BA, and BS
CLEP
Intro Psych 70, US His I 64, Intro Soc 63, Intro Edu Psych 70, A&I Lit 64, Bio 68, Prin Man 69, Prin Mar 68
DSST
Life Dev Psych 62, Fund Coun 68, Intro Comp 469, Intro Astr 56, Env & Hum 70, HTYH 456, MIS 451, Prin Sup 453, HRM 62, Bus Eth 458
ALEKS
Int Alg, Coll Alg
TEEX
4 credits
TECEP
Fed Inc Tax, Sci of Nutr, Micro, Strat Man, Med Term, Pub Relations
CSU
Sys Analysis & Design, Programming, Cyber
SL
Intro to Comm, Microbio, Acc I
Uexcel
A&P
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sanantone Wrote:I thought I'd give a review of this TECEP since they made minor changes to it recently.
Nutrition basics 20%
Macronutrients 20%
Metabolism 20%
Micronutrients 20%
Nutrition applied to various life conditions 20%
The two resources I used were a nutrition chapter in an open anatomy and physiology text and Kansas State University's open flexbook on nutrition. The flexbook is a relatively quick read; I spent five hours reading it. The rest of my study time was spent on the anatomy and physiology text. I knew I was missing information on consumer safety, nutrition throughout the life cycle, and dietary guidelines. You can cover those in a few chapters of another open textbook TESC recommends, but I didn't have time to get to it. Even without much coverage of those topics, I finished the exam in 35 min. and scored a 74%. If you cover all of the topics in the test description, I would put this test in the moderately easy category. I only had to do one calculation, which I did in my head. The most difficult part about studying nutrition is memorizing how the many different macronutrients and micronutrients are absorbed, and there weren't too many questions on that.
Thank you! I'm actually looking forward to taking this TECEP. The last time I took a college nutrition class it was 1993/4 and I love the topic, so this should [hopefully] be fun. Or at least educational. And if TESU follows through with what the emails said today, it'll go towards my residency requirement 
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I am registered for this TECEP and looking to take it in a week or so. I am wondering how the the test worked out for you and if you have any updated study material updates?
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lifelinepso Wrote:I am registered for this TECEP and looking to take it in a week or so. I am wondering how the the test worked out for you and if you have any updated study material updates?
I took it. I used Cookderosa's suggested curriculum and the nutrition textbook from the TECEP syllabus. I was expecting mostly nutrition questions, but the test had a wide variety of health-related questions. Like it might be important to know what a Connective Tissue Disorder is and more about it.
http://www.degreeforum.net/excelsior-tho...post209537
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CLEP: A&I Lit; '08
DSST: HTYH; '08
FEMA: unusable at TESU
IIA: Ethics & CPCU; '15
Kaplan: PLA course; '14,
NFA: 2 CR; '15
SOPHIA: Intro Soc; '15
Straighterline: US History II, Intro Religion, Bus. Ethics, Prin. Mgmt, Cult. Anthro, Org Behavior, American Gov't, Bus. Comm; '15
Study.com: Social Psych, Hist of Vietnam, Abnorm Psych, Research Methods in Psych, Classroom Mgmt, Ed Psych; '16
TECEP: Psych of Women, Tech Writing, Med Term, Nutrition, Eng Comp I; '16
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Does anybody know if this TECEP duplicates the Straighterline Intro to Nutrition course?
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embitca Wrote:Does anybody know if this TECEP duplicates the Straighterline Intro to Nutrition course?
Yes it does. All of the Nutrition courses (TECEP, UExcel, SL, Study.com, CSU-Global) come into TESU as BIO-208.
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