BALS plan

[Tripletmom]

Passed the substance abuse dsst today. It was pretty easy

Did you use only the IC flash cards for the two DSST courses?  Thanks!

[Johmford]

Passed the substance abuse dsst today. It was pretty easy

Did you use only the IC flash cards for the two DSST courses?  Thanks!

Yes I did! They are pretty helpful I think.

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Passed the personal finance study.com final with an 80 today.

Going to take the business ethics DSST tomorrow

[rlw74]

Regarding proctoring, what I loved about study.com was the ability to test at any time, without having to schedule it ahead of time. I too have a little one at home. I've had him interrupt a test and climb up in my lap and it was ok. They mainly want to know you aren't cheating, so it's unlikely a crying baby or toddler is going to be seen as cheating. If anything its a distraction for you. But it looks like you have already gotten past at least one study.com class and know the format.

[Johmford]

Regarding proctoring, what I loved about study.com was the ability to test at any time, without having to schedule it ahead of time. I too have a little one at home. I've had him interrupt a test and climb up in my lap and it was ok. They mainly want to know you aren't cheating, so it's unlikely a crying baby or toddler is going to be seen as cheating. If anything its a distraction for you. But it looks like you have already gotten past at least one study.com class and know the format.

Yea it wasn't too bad. I did personal finance, but i have worked in banking the last 6 years... so needless to say it wasn't challenging.

The real challenge i am having is deciding which courses i can take to fulfill my upper level requirements.

i would LOOOOOVE it if someone would chime in with the specific courses that will work with a No-Concentration BALS.

my main confusion is if i can do business courses with a no-concentration BALS or it has to be  humanities and etc

[rlw74]

I wish I could help but all the psychology courses I took a year ago were downgraded. I'm pretty sure the Vietnam course is still UL. Org Behavior is a business course that comes in as a psych course. I think it's still UL. You can ask TESU just to be sure. My other UL were transferred in or were from Shmoop.

[Johmford]

I wish I could help but all the psychology courses I took a year ago were downgraded. I'm pretty sure the Vietnam course is still UL. Org Behavior is a business course that comes in as a psych course. I think it's still UL. You can ask TESU just to be sure. My other UL were transferred in or were from Shmoop.

I HATE Shmoop. I am tempted to try them again though...


I just passed the business ethics DSST. Is that an UL?

[rlw74]

Totally understand. I hated Shmoop too.

[Johmford]

Can anyone confirm if the Money and Banking DSST is an UL AOS for the BALS with no concentration?

[dfrecore]

Can anyone confirm if the Money and Banking DSST is an UL AOS for the BALS with no concentration?

Yes - it comes in as ECO-322

[rlw74]

BTW, just to clarify, in case anyone sees my signature and thinks I used Shmoop for UL on a social sciences concentration...
Shmoop courses don't come in as a social science UL.

I originally started off thinking I would do a generic BALS, no concentration so I took a lot of UL Shmoop Lit courses. They came in UL but when I switched over to the social science concentration I substituted the Study.com Psy courses, the Org Behavior course, and a Vietnam course which I transferred in from another college.

I just wanted to clarify in case someone read this in the future.
Even though I do not like Shmoop, it is a fast, cheap way to get the BALS UL Humanities concentration or the general, no concentration degrees.