TESU & Shmoop

[burbuja0512]

Just an FYI, non-proctored doesn't mean "stress-free."  I think being well-prepared for a test makes a test less stressful, and that depends on course set-up.  If your son can do well in a course up to the proctored final, and needs to score very low or even 0 to pass the course, that's going to be less stress than anything else he can do.

I did Ed4Credit's Managerial Accounting course, and the ability to retake chapter tests, made it very doable for me.  Same with the Penn Foster Financial Management course.  Study.com courses give you the ability to retake quizzes if you want, to get your grade as high as possible before taking the final.  SL allows for open-book finals on many courses.

There are lots of ways to take the stress out of a course (or lower it), and non-proctored actually isn't one of them, in my opinion.

I've been thinking a lot about this one.  DS has a high IQ!  He seems so normal in almost every way other than learning.   I just keep saying - he is so damn smart, why can't he just take this relatively simple CLEP and pass... he knows the material?   Why can't he just do a DSST and pass, after all, he's studied for weeks?

The answer is I don't really know what make him tick and he's still learning.  There's just something about a formal testing environment that freaks him out.   So, I guess it's not really the proctor vs. non-proctor, it's just getting anxiety about what "feels like" a test.    Not sure if that helps explain it....   My MBA would have been perfect for him.  Tons of group work and even more research papers, but we didn't really do any sort of exam.      I wonder if there are options like that for him.....