I did pretty well on the SATs, but my scores are expired. My community college wanted me to take remedial math or the Accuplacer. I didn't want to take either, so I just took an ALEKS course which can transfer to TESC. The only problem was that I couldn't get into any science courses at my CC. I'll be looking into a DSST or Straighterline for the 3 science credits I need for TESC.
The thing is that even though I did pretty well on the SAT years ago and I was an A student in high school algebra, it had been years since I had taken a serious math course and I had forgotten almost everything. When I took the initial assessment on ALEKS for Intermediate Algebra, I only scored around 26%. I watched a series on college algebra on the Annenberg website to bring myself up to speed.
Ever since I left high school, I have taken math courses at Axia College (was under Western International University and moved to University of Phoenix) and Colorado Technical University that were almost on the elementary level. Axia College made everyone take basic math and algebra in two parts. At the time, my SAT scores were only a year old, but UoP doesn't care about that; everyone had to waste time and money on remedial math courses. They had algebra IA and algebra IB. I only got to IA before I withdrew from the school. None of the Big 3 or my community college will give credit for those courses because they're considered remedial or developmental. At the time, those courses cost around $800 each. THAT is the biggest rip-off ever.
Considering how illiterate 90% of my classmates have been at Axia College, Colorado Tech, and my CC; I believe English I should be a requirement for every non-math course whether you test out of it or take it as a course. But now that I think about it, Axia College and Colorado Tech schedule writing courses first along with those stupid introduction to online learning courses before you get to anything else. My classmates still couldn't write to save their lives. Granted, my grammar is not always perfect, but at least my writing is coherent and I spell most words correctly.
The thing is that even though I did pretty well on the SAT years ago and I was an A student in high school algebra, it had been years since I had taken a serious math course and I had forgotten almost everything. When I took the initial assessment on ALEKS for Intermediate Algebra, I only scored around 26%. I watched a series on college algebra on the Annenberg website to bring myself up to speed.
Ever since I left high school, I have taken math courses at Axia College (was under Western International University and moved to University of Phoenix) and Colorado Technical University that were almost on the elementary level. Axia College made everyone take basic math and algebra in two parts. At the time, my SAT scores were only a year old, but UoP doesn't care about that; everyone had to waste time and money on remedial math courses. They had algebra IA and algebra IB. I only got to IA before I withdrew from the school. None of the Big 3 or my community college will give credit for those courses because they're considered remedial or developmental. At the time, those courses cost around $800 each. THAT is the biggest rip-off ever.
Considering how illiterate 90% of my classmates have been at Axia College, Colorado Tech, and my CC; I believe English I should be a requirement for every non-math course whether you test out of it or take it as a course. But now that I think about it, Axia College and Colorado Tech schedule writing courses first along with those stupid introduction to online learning courses before you get to anything else. My classmates still couldn't write to save their lives. Granted, my grammar is not always perfect, but at least my writing is coherent and I spell most words correctly.
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