Which one is most recommended for testing out General Education requirements- Study.c

[Driel]

I will begin with SL for now. The English courses would be my first tries. But does it work like ALEK that i have to complete as many courses as possible in a 1 mth subscription?

[bjcheung77]

I will begin with SL for now. The English courses would be my first tries. But does it work like ALEK that i have to complete as many courses as possible in a 1 mth subscription?

Straighterline and Study.com are both monthly subscriptions, you have to crank out as many as possible with SL otherwise, you'll get charged another month if you can't complete them. I'm on my 5th and final month, yes, I did over 5 courses/month (most I did was 7 a month) as I wanted to get as many credits from them as possible. You must make sure you don't take over 90 credits from ONE provider. For SL, it's $99/month and pay $49-$99/course. For Study.com, you take two courses at $199/month, and pay $70/extra course exam.

[Driel]

Great! Thanks for the info. I guess i will take my Stats there too. I couldn't pass it in ALEKS.

[Gymfan15]

^^ If you can, take Business Stats. I'm not very good at math and I previously took the SL Saylor Stats course and it was miserable; I failed with a 63% after a long and torturous process. On Wednesday of this week I started Business Stats and now I'm halfway done with a grade of 94%. For those of us who are math-challenged, Business Stats is WAY better because it's mostly theoretical and also, the final is OPEN BOOK. I can't praise it enough.

[Collegelady2]

^^ If you can, take Business Stats. I'm not very good at math and I previously took the SL Saylor Stats course and it was miserable; I failed with a 63% after a long and torturous process. On Wednesday of this week I started Business Stats and now I'm halfway done with a grade of 94%. For those of us who are math-challenged, Business Stats is WAY better because it's mostly theoretical and also, the final is OPEN BOOK. I can't praise it enough.

I'm sorry who are you taking the business stats thru now?

[bjcheung77]

I'm sorry who are you taking the business stats thru now?

I recommended Gymfan15 and everyone else, the only Stats I ever passed was Straighterline Business Stats.
I passed it and I have been recommending it ever since, I failed ALEKS after two months, failed SL's Intro To Stats at 65%.
I practically was going to give up until I saw Business Stats was transferred into TESU as the same thing!
Took it and passed with an 85%. I was so happy ever since, that's the only course I've failed... gosh...

[Gymfan15]

I recommended Gymfan15 and everyone else, the only Stats I ever passed was Straighterline Business Stats.
I passed it and I have been recommending it ever since, I failed ALEKS after two months, failed SL's Intro To Stats at 65%.
I practically was going to give up until I saw Business Stats was transferred into TESU as the same thing!
Took it and passed with an 85%. I was so happy ever since, that's the only course I've failed... gosh...

Bless you for helping me find this as an option the other week...I've been able to take the basics that I learned through Saylor and apply it here and I feel so much more confident and prepared, plus I'm PASSING the dang class which is a miracle. I still have to take College Algebra after this, but I feel like that can't be nearly as bad as trying to do Stats cold, lol.

Definitely, absolutely, do Business Stats through SL. ESPECIALLY if you are going into business; this course practically applies math in a way that I will actually use. Am I actually going to be pulling out a calculator to do statistical calculations for my job? Heck no! That's what Excel is for! That's why I'm SO HAPPY that they are actually teaching me how to utilize Excel for stats because that is something I will actually use in the future.

[dfrecore]

Definitely, absolutely, do Business Stats through SL. ESPECIALLY if you are going into business; this course practically applies math in a way that I will actually use. Am I actually going to be pulling out a calculator to do statistical calculations for my job? Heck no! That's what Excel is for! That's why I'm SO HAPPY that they are actually teaching me how to utilize Excel for stats because that is something I will actually use in the future.

I worked in Accounting/Finance for a long time, and seriously, I never had to do calculations by hand (with or without a calculator). And, every company I worked for had you do things a different way - they had excel spreadsheets for EVERYTHING! Unless they had a computer program which did it even more easily. So I can't quite figure out why stats is a "thing" for business degrees at this point in time. I never did a single blessed thing with stats in all the years I worked. I know this course is a complete waste of time for me, which makes it even harder to try to pass!! banghead

[Collegelady2]

I worked in Accounting/Finance for a long time, and seriously, I never had to do calculations by hand (with or without a calculator). And, every company I worked for had you do things a different way - they had excel spreadsheets for EVERYTHING! Unless they had a computer program which did it even more easily. So I can't quite figure out why stats is a "thing" for business degrees at this point in time. I never did a single blessed thing with stats in all the years I worked. I know this course is a complete waste of time for me, which makes it even harder to try to pass!! banghead

Aren't most college classes in general this way? Useless? Other than to put on that resume that you have a college degree

[dfrecore]

Aren't most college classes in general this way? Useless? Other than to put on that resume that you have a college degree

True! That whole "we want you to be well-rounded" thing is...dumb.