Hi,

I am planning to take DSST Exam for the Principles of Statistics in the mid december timeframe and I am wondering if it will be sufficient to pass the exam just by studying the intracert questionaires. Please, advice me if anyone have taken Statistics exam earlier. If I need to focus on studying other books / materials, please do forward the names to me. I am pretty new to these CLEP / DSST's. Also, what are teh total number of questions and the passing score?

Also, In intantcert, the formula for SD is sqrt (sigma (X-mean) / N-1) whereas in other books, it's sqrt (sigma (X-mean) / N ). which one is correct? Please advice.


Thanks much,
Nithya:p

For those that are interested in scoring for ECE exams there is a document called: Excelsior College Exam Tecnhical Handbook 2005. I tried to attached but IC limits prohibited it. It is located under the publications section. I happened upon it by pure chance. It lists all exams and grading criteria.
IE Abnormal Psychology:

Grade- Cut Score- % Form F- % Form G-
A- 62- 14%- 20%-
B- 54- 30%- 35%-
C- 45- 29%- 25%-

Also contains information on the two different exams Forms F and G thought Im sure you probably dont know which one your getting. Additionally, if you look you will see the percentage of A's B's and C's differ depending on the form you get. It also includes additional data such as Mean Item Difficulty, Mean Item-Total Correlation (point-biserial) and internal consistancy data, if those items actually mean anything to anyone. Hope this helps.

"Wow" is pretty much the best way to describe this test. It was not too long, just 160 questions, yet it took me 2 1/2 hours. I can tell you one thing, IC was nowhere near enough. While I do appreciate the effort made to create the guide, it barely covered half of the material that was on my test, if that. Luckily I studied the other materials mentioned on Beckysharp's posts (thanks again!) as well as the Excelsior practice tests; I STILL do not feel confident....at all. I kept a running tally of questions I was 100% sure I knew and came up with an even 50. There were probably about 20 others that I was fairly sure on, 20 that were simply "throw a dart blind guesses", and the rest I could narrow down to two answers. I am not panicking as it's really too late now to worry or wonder. I do know that if I fail I will not attempt a retry; the material is just too expansive and the scenarios are VERY vague. My hat is off to anyone getting a good score on this one. More to come when the score comes in.

Magic, how did you fare? Lee

Hi, All -

I am looking for suggested study materials for the English Lit exam. I did very well on the American Lit, but I am a little intimidated by the English Lit test...any advice you can provide will be appreciated!

Thanks a bunch!
TK

Has anyone taken the COMPUTERIZED Money and Banking DSST test (NOT the paper version)?

This test has been a thorn in the side for many and my brother and I failed it last August. We are up for redemption this February.

I know the computerized tests are different from the old paper ones.

Any advice? Muchas gracias!:o

As you are probably aware, all DSST tests went computerized Oct. 2, 2006.

I just found out that now, instead of no time limit, they all have a two-hour time limit.

But not to fear, I took Business Math (paper version with like 70-80 questions) adn my friend took the computerized version of Business Math adn had only 50-60 questions.

Just a friendly heads up.

I believe that college cram .com is a scam!!! I have registered ..giving them my email address and info and then tried to get online using the user id and password: it NEVER works!!! Now i get lots of junk info off my registration data, but I sure don't recieve any other their little "Cramlets". So, my current feeling is I've been scammed and they can get "cramletted". Has anyone used this site successfully?

Crammed and scammed??? Ron

Hello, I need to bring up my GPA at Excelsior some. I need to replace some lower level classes where I made Cs. My only science is a C. So one of them needs to be a hard science.

I need a 3 credit hour science and 10 additional generic lower or upper credit hour tests that I will be able to get a letter grade in.


I know many of the clep\dantes tests don't get letter grades just p/f. I also need a math test that is only P/F since I would be hard pressed to get an A in math!

thanks,

CutNShootCamelRider

So, I am consistently scoring about a 90% on Peterson's practice tests for Principles of Supervision. Is that good enough for an A?

Thanks!

Anybody got any tips on the DSST HRM exam? I meant to take this a couple of weeks ago but got delayed. It seems so easy compared to many others, but I don't want to take it too lightly.

Anybody who's taken it I'd love to hear your comments.

Thanks!