Does anyone have any study advice for the DSST Technical Writing exam? I'm going to pick up the DSST Technical Writing book but was hoping to augment the book with additional material.

Gee I wish IC had a Technical Writing section. It's scary not having my IC crutch to help me along.

Since I won't get my score for a few weeks I figured I'd better dump my thoughts now. WHAT A BEAR! There were 97 questions organized to give you confidence with a few easy ones then slap you around with a string huge calculation. At three hours this was the longest exam I've taken too date.

Much of the subject matter is included in IC, however I would suggest finding more examples calculating y-intercept, all of the errors, correlation and regression. I felt confident at the 70 mark, but was hit with 10 calculation in a row that left me wondering if I know anything. I even begain questioning whether to use standard deviation for the population or sample. Basically practice, practice, practice using your calculator.

One thing to note, the testing center didn't look at my calculator, which left me wishing I would've bought a better model that would do regression and everything else.

I'll let you know the outcome when it arrives, good luck to those that follow.

Has anyone taken the Excelsior Literacy exam to meet the NYS teacher certification requirements? I need 3 credits in Literacy Instruction and 3 in Literacy Instruction Methods. This 6 credits cover both, right?

Seems like InstantCert hasn't got prep materials for the exam yet. Any ideas or tips for passing?

Hi all,

I ran across the following website today. Supposedly, the videos on this website are from classes taught in a free-university project that was shut down in 2001. The website says the majority of the professors teaching the courses were from MIT. The courses, lectures, etc. are available for download or can be purchased on 7 DVDs.

I can't comment on the quality of the material, I haven't bought it yet or downloaded any of it. I'm simply presenting it as another source of information for CS majors.

Passed EC Ethics today with an A. My recommendation is to know the instacert material, and most definately spend the bucks for the EC practice exam. On my exam, almost 1/2 of the scenerios were word for word right off the practice exams (the questions themselves were a little different). Overall, this exam wasn't too difficult. Just be sure to know the basics- like utilitarianism, kantianism, existentialism. Follow the exam outline. Four classes to go! Next up- Principles of Finance. I was going to take a bricks and mortar class, but now I'm thinking about the DSST exam.

Does anyone have any suggestions on prepping for the US History I CLEP? I just took it and got a 64 but my college will only accept a score of 65. I'm at a loss for what else I should study... in addition to instant cert, I did the both the College Board CLEP practice and the reviewed a CLEP study guide from Barron's.

Hey everyone,

Just came back from taking CLEP American Literature. Guess what I passed. Hurray, ice-cream for everyone.

It wasn't an easy exam for me. I arrived at the University in NYC and was surprised to see about 200 people have a party(or get-together) in the hall outside of the small Testing Room. To make matters worse, there was an adjacent room with Kids and Loud-mouth adults screaming and kicking the walls. Also, the room wasn't sound proof, I could hear every noise emanating from the party.
So I stuck my index fingers in my ear and tried to concentrate by reading the questions aloud. It worked, thus my score is 59 - cannot be more than happy with that.
Regretably this was last clep, the other 2 being Micro Eco and Psy. But I'll still visit this forum once in a while and contribute, like the kind people that helped me get through with this beast of a clep.

Bye for now.

Ok I just have to rant about a conversation that I had with my sister today. She is going to a B&M school and is taking 6 classes this semester and is totally stressed out. I told her that I looked at her college online and saw that they accepted CLEP and other alternative education credits. She is taking Human Growth and Development at the same time I am CLEPing it. So she says, well I need to really take the class because I need to learn and absorb this information because it is part of my degree. I guess she thinks that she would be getting more out of the class from writing papers and trying hard to impress her professor and regurgitate information that she will lose as soon as she takes the final. I guess I am annoyed that she thinks that me taking the test will not give me as much information as she gets. The funny thing is that I probably know more now about it having 3 kids than she does having none.

OK - I know that I am being totally unreasonable, but I feel better now!

Thanks for listening to my rant.

Kim

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I have a path charted out for the rest of my tests (8 to go, if my figuring is right), however I'm considering alternatives to include online courses or possibly even in person classes. I don't mind the idea of testing, but my experience is that typical classes are easier than self-study, and it's easier to ace than a dry-run prep for one test, like many of these exams are. At this point, I'm feeling the urge to start rushing being so close, but don't want to screw up my GPA (4.0 so far). Self-paced classes are appealing as they can be completed in the same time, generally, as test prep, give you more grading opportunities and probably less of a surprise on a final exam.

In particular, I'm wondering if anyone can offer suggestions for classes that are completely online (or possibly CD-ROM), self-paced and graded. Of course, I'm only looking for regionally accredited courses that would be accepted by Excelsior.

If you have suggestions, could you provide information as to those details along with the level, number of credits, and whether the exams are proctored or not. I'm sure others would be interested in this as well.

For example, are the BYU classes self-paced?

Thanks in advance.

me