kimaya24 Wrote:What does all this mean? Well, my null hypothesis of the correlation between the standard deviation and the coefficiency of my guessing ability taking into account the empircal rule that I have a terrible memory multiplied by the fact that I spend more time screwing around in the IC forum than I do actually studying, I can say with a 95% confidence level that the relative frequency of the probability that I need to study some more is about 100% (+/- 5% margin of error). Hahaha...I had to do it

I'm gonna go for it on Friday....please pray for me!!

burbuja0512 Wrote:I really hate studying for a subject I don't like.. it's such torture!

I bet that with all of the effort you're putting into it, you will pass. I will keep my fingers crossed for you so that you can get it done and move on!

bricabrac Wrote:Well you are certainly rockin the vocab!!! Too Funny! hilarious
I understand the curve is to your benefit....Good luck!

kimaya24 Wrote:The last couple of weeks I've been studying for the Principles of Statistics DSST & I'm scheduled to take it this Friday. I've used the statistics feedback forum to give me motivation when I get discouraged, but I've read those posts about 100 times now so I thought it would be neat to have a place where anyone that's studying for statistics (or already taken it) can share how their progress is going, neat stat sites they've found, share their "aha" moments/ study tips, ask questions, or just random thoughts of how annoying, irritating, frustrating their study is going, etc. Anything about the statistics exam in general that can't go in the Specific Feedback Forum

Sooooo, like I said I started studying last week, but it seems like I wasted the whole time learning standard deviation and variance! This whole week I've been a nervous wreck feeling like I am TOTALLY unprepared & that I should reschedule the test, but in just the last couple days I'm getting more and more confident & ready to take this one on & get it over with (amazing how things seem to come together at the last minute...unless I end up failing lol!). Anyway, I took a Peterson test and scored a 48% The DSST scoring site http://www.getcollegecredit.com/pdfs/exam-scoring.pdf says you need 42% - 46% to pass.. So I decided to do some "statistics" on the answers I got right/ wrong on the practice (which I hadn't covered a lot of the material yet & wasn't trying very hard, mostly guessing). Here's what I came up with:

Questions I got right where I was:
100% Sure..........................................................19
Pretty sure/ educated guess.................................. 10
Purely lucky guess................................................16

Questions I got wrong but should have gotten right.....9
(didn't pay attention to the question or too lazy to work the problem)
TOTAL...................................................................54

What does all this mean? Well, my null hypothesis of the correlation between the standard deviation and the coefficiency of my guessing ability taking into account the empircal rule that I have a terrible memory multiplied by the fact that I spend more time screwing around in the IC forum than I do actually studying, I can say with a 95% confidence level that the relative frequency of the probability that I need to study some more is about 100% (+/- 5% margin of error). Hahaha...I had to do it

Seriously though, based on this I think I could possibly squeak by with a pass, but my plan is to keep studying, take another test and try to increase the number that I'm sure on and pretty sure on to 30 each and up my overal score to at least 60 on 2 tests. If I do that, I'm gonna go for it on Friday....please pray for me!!

cookderosa Wrote:If you'd like to roll the dice <grin> you can pay $20 and take the ALEKS statistics assessment. It's open book and untimed (no pressure!). If you score 70% or higher you'll get the credit without having to take the DSST. Just an idea

FinancialWorld Wrote:Short answer - If they accept anything ACE accredited, then they'll except ALEKS. You receive credit from ALEKS by having you work transcribed through ACE (American Counsel on Education).

Long (and Politically Correct) Answer - I have no idea. Better check your school.