Math Requirement - Liberty - Help Deciding

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How about Aleks’ College Algebra?

I am considering ALEKS.  Although I am worried about the required 70% on the ACE knowledge check.  I would prefer a course that averages all scores in determining final grade.  I would hate for one bad test to sink the whole thing.  Thank you for your input!

ALEKS doesn't work like that. It is like a cycle where you start with an initial assessment, followed by a learning section where concepts are introduced and tested, followed by a knowledge check to test your mastery of new concepts followed by the learning section, and then another knowledge check. This cycle continues until you hit 70% on any knowledge check, at which time you have the option to take a semi-proctored "ACE knowledge check" for college credit. If you're just barely hitting 70% and feel that you need more study time, you can always skip the ACE knowledge check and try again later when you think you're ready. If you try the ACE knowledge check and don't hit 70% it just sends you back to the learning section again so you can focus on mastering what you missed.

So there is no "one bad test to sink the whole thing". You either hit 70% on a given knowledge check or you go back to learning and can keep trying until you do. There is no time limit on how long you can spend working through the course.

Just to clarify, if you take and fail the ACE knowledge check you can take it as many times as you like? Does it force you to gain a higher mastery than the initial 70% required to to take the first ACE knowledge check? Currently sitting at 72% and want to take the ACE Check but am unsure what happens if I don't pass it on the first attempt.

Yes. Doing poorly on a knowledge check just rolls back the % mastered for any sections in the pie chart you didn’t do well on, and those get added back into the topics to learn/review until the next knowledge check. So the overall % mastered rolls back too, if you don’t know it, but if you’ve mastered the topics you should be ok.


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