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Just checking in... |
Posted by: tampalizard - 07-05-2006, 01:34 PM - Forum: General Education-Related Discussion
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I haven't written for awhile but I have been reading fairly often. I am done with my tests now...one way or the other. I took Intro to Business and Principles of Finance last Thursday. If I passed both all I need to do is finish the classes I am in and I will have my degree. If I failed the Finance I will be taking another self-paced class through BYU. I know I will be able to go through it quickly as I studied a good bit for the exam. I am not sure I passed it though because there were at least 8 of the same type of calculation question and I did not know how to do them. This has been a depressing couple of months for me. I made it through nearly 100 credits via testing without failing a single test. Of course..I saved the worst ones for last. Failing those two tests (Algebra CLEP and Money and Banking DSST) and now, possibly, a third is taking the spring out of my step thats for sure! To top that off I am having a REALLY hard time with my algebra class and I have 3 proctored exams I have to pass. It is looking more and more like that stupid subject is going to delay my degree. I get really angry with myself when I simply CANNOT understand something. It makes me feel really ignorant. I want to repeat, again, that it would probably not be my choice again to save all the most personally challenging tests for last. I would not advise it for anyone else. Hope everyone is doing well!
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Principles of Supervision - amount of study time? |
Posted by: Alaskan - 07-04-2006, 11:12 PM - Forum: General Education-Related Discussion
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Hi,
I'm new to this forum. I have about 12 courses to finish in order to complete my BS at Wayland Baptist University and one of the academic advisors suggested taking the DSST Principles of Supervision test. Looking through the forum, it appears that this test is perceived as rather easy. I am running through the IC questions currently and wonder what amount of time I should devote to studying prior to taking the exam. Any feedback on what I can expect on this exam would be most appreciated, as well.
Thanks!
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Essay for Ethics exam ? |
Posted by: 50fingersntoes - 07-04-2006, 07:40 PM - Forum: General Education-Related Discussion
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I am just taking clep and dantes test right now to earn credits and have not decided where I will be taking my credits for my degree. Mostlikely it will be Excelsior. I am taking Ethics in America tomorrow morning and was wondering if anyone knew what colleges you have to take the essay part of the exam? I don't want to opt not to take it or have the test center tell me I do not have to take it and wined up realizing later that I was supposed to.
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Upper Level Advice |
Posted by: MagicATC - 07-04-2006, 12:58 PM - Forum: General Education-Related Discussion
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I am trying to figure what is the best recommendation for Upper Level credits. I have 21 Uppers left for my degree and not sure what will be best to start. I am doing this through Excelsior. Since this is a Liberal Arts degree, I have alot to choose from. Any subjects to stay away from? Any good enough from IC study alone? I am fairly new to the CLEP thing. Wish I knew about it sooner. Thanks!
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I Can't Believe This Happened! |
Posted by: yutzyj - 07-03-2006, 08:14 PM - Forum: General Education-Related Discussion
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i took the ece college writing today at 2:00. i used the My Access writing tool for almost a month to learn to write to the computer grading system. i found this test to be the most difficult exam i have taken so far. this is based on the 8 previous clep tests i have taken and passed. this is a 3 hour exam vs 1.5 hours for clep. i was to be prepared to be at the testing center for 3.5 hours to complete the tutorial before the exam began and then there was supposed to be something after.
begin rant:
no matter how nervous i am when taking a clep test i always settle in after about 5 to 10 minutes and begin to feel better as i answer questions. but with this test you have to be ON for 3 hours! the answers are not there in front of you. writing is not something i do well so this was very stressful for me. i had to go to a different unfamiliar testing center that was farther away. i sat down and the first and only screen was a page on how the writing screen worked. i thought this odd because i was supposed to have up to a 30 minute tutorial for extended response tests. i read the page twice and hit the start button. i wrote to the three prompts like a mad woman and thought i did pretty well. i had about 2 minutes and 48 seconds left and decided to fix my topic sentence of my second response and BOOM.....the prometric screen was there. no warning, no prompt, no nothing but this blue and white screen! also no 15 minute exit questions that i was supposed to answer according to excelsior's documentation. by now it was about 10 to 5 and i was the only one left. i knew i didn't run out of time. i asked the proctor what happened and she said my test was done. i asked her about my score and she said that it still needed to be graded. i told her that it was computer graded and i was to get a score. i explained what happened about the time and she wrote my complaints. the proctor said that she had never run this test before. she did call prometric and they stated that they didn't have my test, that excelsior has it. of course i tried to call excelsior right away but because tomorrow is a holiday no one was there. i can't even call tomorrow because it's a holiday. i hope i don't have to take this again!
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the good news from all this is my husband is taking this test on wednesday morning and he will make sure everything is the way it should be and be prepared for this to happen. our theory is that the proctor had to put in some kind of internet access timer and because the test was 3 hours she entered 3 hours and then i got booted out! i just hope excelsior has my exam. i really don't want to redo this test!
has anyone else had something happen like this? please share.
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Humanties: Peterson's vs IC |
Posted by: Criticalthinker - 07-01-2006, 01:30 PM - Forum: General Education-Related Discussion
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I am gearing up for my 5th CLEP on Tuesday, July 11; Humanities.
I am doing well with the IC materials, but found the first Peterson's practice test, I took quite difficult. I only got 48% on it.
I have searched the board and gotten a lot of helpful hints about preparing for this test in particular, but I was wondering if anyone had taken the Peterson's practice tests and found them harder or relevant to the real Humanities CLEP? :confused:
Thanks
CT
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