09-11-2016, 04:23 PM
One of the problems of trying to compare two types of exams is that no one has taken both. So to ask whether the Principles of Finance DSST is easier or harder than the Study.com course will not be really helpful for you - people will have taken one or the other.
Also, it is impossible for anyone to tell you if something is hard or easy, when it is totally dependent upon your past experience as to whether something is easy. I took the Marketing CLEP while barely studying for it (actually just looked at a Spartnotes chart for maybe an hour ahead of time), and thought it was a piece of cake - but I have taken multiple management courses, most at a 4-year college with a really great business program with lots of hands-on experiential learning included. So I retained a lot of what I learned there, and was able to use it to take the marketing course. I also worked for years in different administrative capacities, so marketing was not new to me. For someone who has never taken a management course, or worked around marketing people, it may be more difficult for you. But there's no way my telling you it was an easy course to pass will make it easy for YOU to pass, it's just what MY experience was with it.
Also, it is impossible for anyone to tell you if something is hard or easy, when it is totally dependent upon your past experience as to whether something is easy. I took the Marketing CLEP while barely studying for it (actually just looked at a Spartnotes chart for maybe an hour ahead of time), and thought it was a piece of cake - but I have taken multiple management courses, most at a 4-year college with a really great business program with lots of hands-on experiential learning included. So I retained a lot of what I learned there, and was able to use it to take the marketing course. I also worked for years in different administrative capacities, so marketing was not new to me. For someone who has never taken a management course, or worked around marketing people, it may be more difficult for you. But there's no way my telling you it was an easy course to pass will make it easy for YOU to pass, it's just what MY experience was with it.
TESU BSBA/HR 2018 - WVNCC BOG AAS 2017 - GGU Cert in Mgmt 2000
EXAMS: TECEP Tech Wrtg, Comp II, LA Math, PR, Computers DSST Computers, Pers Fin CLEP Mgmt, Mktg
COURSES: TESU Capstone Study.com Pers Fin, Microecon, Stats Ed4Credit Acct 2 PF Fin Mgmt ALEKS Int & Coll Alg Sophia Proj Mgmt The Institutes - Ins Ethics Kaplan PLA
EXAMS: TECEP Tech Wrtg, Comp II, LA Math, PR, Computers DSST Computers, Pers Fin CLEP Mgmt, Mktg
COURSES: TESU Capstone Study.com Pers Fin, Microecon, Stats Ed4Credit Acct 2 PF Fin Mgmt ALEKS Int & Coll Alg Sophia Proj Mgmt The Institutes - Ins Ethics Kaplan PLA