Difficulty level - Coopersmith vs Uexcel?

[studyingfortests]

I can only speak to one UExcel exam I took, which is Research Methods. I went into it expecting it to be difficult, especially since I am a pretty major math phobe.

I studied for the exam for several weeks (I had no prior background with statistics or research methods), did the Study.com Uexcel prep class and also studied the free flashcards at Quizlet.

I didn't feel super confident going into the exam, and expected a B or a C... but came out with an A. A friend who was studying with me at the same time and took the test in the same week also got an A.

So perhaps that exam wasn't that difficult, or perhaps we were just well prepared.

As a side note: Anyone who is at TESU, you can "double dip" by taking the UExcel prep course, which is then about 95% of the Study.com Research Methods course. If you take both the UExcel exam and SDC Research Methods course, you're studying almost identical material, and can transfer in two separate classes. SDC comes in as a 100 or 200 level intro to research methods, while UExcel comes in as a 300 level, and both can count toward your AOS.

The same friend has also taken a bunch of the Coopersmith psychology/social work courses and says that the exams were not that hard. He didn't read much from the required textbooks, just studied the long powerpoint and the 'crash course' one. However, at least in the psych/social sciences, especially in the drug/alcohol counseling courses, some of the info is wildly outdated and is not even consistent with the textbook, so make sure you study the crash course, as some of the answers they are expecting are not correct with current research. Just a heads up.