I took the test to day and I believe I did really well. I will let you know in about 2 weeks, unless I fail, then I won't tell you!

It did not require a scientific calculator but I would recommend the TI-30Xa because I did some research with other colleges and this is always the non-programmable one they recommended for college exams. It has mean, SD, Sum of, and factorials with square root, which was more than enough. If you use another calculator, learn to use the function keys. It makes things a lot faster, though I still recommend learning the formulas the best you can so you know how to apply them. Here is a link for a list of approved non-programmable calculators.
http://faculty.mdc.edu/lrodicio/HTML...egulations.htm

Make sure you use the DSST Fact sheet for statistics to see what you will need to study and know for the exam. It is very accurate. They have a 10 question sample on the fact sheet that is helpful. I also went to the TESC site and down loaded their TECEP guide which has a 20 question practice exam for free. Here is the link. http://www.tesc.edu/catalog/tecep_desc/STA-201.pdf

The materials that I used are listed here. I bought the Complete IDIOT'S Guide to Statistics (not the Dummies book. that one sucked!). This book covered absolutely everything you will need for the exam and is the perfect compliment to instantcert. I read the whole book. It was interesting and entertaining and rather easy to understand. The author did a great job! Try to learn the majority of things (except ANOVA) and especially grasp probability. Do all the practice questions at the end of each chapter. Instantcert may be enough but I like to go in fully prepared. I generally overstudy. I like to use several materials because one may put a subject in a way that you go ah-ha! Instantcert was very proportional to the exam. The videos (FREE) that I watched on the net were awesome and extremely helpful in grasping concepts and somethings they mentioned were actually on the exam! I highly recommend the videos. I watched some of them several times. Here is the link to two sets of Statistics videos and mind you, they are free and quite entertaining in my opinion. I didn't feel they were boring at all.
http://www.learner.org/resources/ser...308580&pid=142
http://www.learner.org/resources/series158.html

I studied this exam for a long time. I probably should have just taken the course though I'm now glad I took the exam. I think I did really well. I feel confident. It takes longer for me to study because I have a busy family life and it is difficult to study with young kids around. I took my own sweet time with the exam also. I'm embarassed to say how long but I was in there a while! I have no time to fail this exam.

It is more concept based then math based. But know the math also. College level algebra should be enough.