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[eriehiker]

I have taken two more challenge exams during the past few days.

I failed the CRJ 330 Comparative Criminal Justice exam. I don't know what the score was because Strayer kind of takes a lacksadaisical approach towards reporting failures on the challenge exams. Sometimes the failing scores are reported. Sometimes they are not. Sometimes, it takes a subsequent passing score for the earlier failed scores to report. This is not true for the passing scores. These are reported quickly. Most of mine have been reported within one day. One score was reported within 30 minutes.

I passed the BUS 230 Purchasing and Materials Management exam. I felt that this one was kind of general in nature and logic could be used for most questions.

I do continue to have the strange pattern of failing the exams that I perceive to be easier exams. Of the two above, I thought the difficulty level would be reversed. I have been trying to be very efficient with the exams. Study enough to pass, but not much more. These are end of day things for me. I print study materials before I go to bed, study during random times the next day. At about 3PM, I make the decision about whether I know enough and then schedule an exam for 10PM. It take me 20 minutes to take each exam. Then I go to bed.

As mentioned previously, I think that I know enough generally to reach 60 percent on these exams, but I don't generally know enough to hit 70 and have to study for that 10%. The perceived "easier" ones skew my judgment in terms of study time and I end up not studying enough for these exams and fail.

I do want to test one thing. When I fail exams, the exam system always says that I have one more attempt left. This seems to run counter to Strayer's stated policy. I want to test it to see if I can take failed exams again. Will report back.