Does anyone (Jennifer?) know if the MAT105 Applied Math for Liberal Arts Majors at TESC is a duplicate for the Algebra 1 at ALEKS? I don't think so, but I CANNOT get the advisors at TESC to answer it for me (yes, I'm enrolled). Yet another reason I'm glad to be done with them in about 3 months
I'll probably end up trying the Intermediate Algebra (which would apply for TESC's MAT115).

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I'm done!
B.A. English, TESC, completed December 2008

Tests passed: A/I Lit-73, Mgmt-71, Amer Lit-73, Tech Writing-64, Criminal Justice-56, Here's to Your Health-65, Law Enforcement-60

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No, I don't have a clue.
Even though I took MAT105 as a student at TESC, and now watching my son take the Beginning Algebra 001 on ALEKS, I can't figure out the levels. (It doesn't help that I'm not a math person to begin with)

What you can try, is send an email to enrolled@tesc.edu and tell them to plan the course ALEKS Beginning Algebra 001 into your degree plan. It will take a bit of time for them to do so (maybe a week or two), but someone in advising will have to figure out what to assign it, and when they assign it an equivalency, you will be able to view it on your myEdison transcript evaluation page. Since it is the easiest course, I would be VERY interested to see what alpha-numeric they assign it. If it's 100 level (it must be) that would be THE EASIEST MATH available HANDS DOWN for anyone in the TESC BA track. At $20 per month, I would estimate any motivated adult could complete the entire course inside that month. So, it would be a fraction of the price of the CLEP as well. I'm very interested to see what credit and title they give this course. This is a golden ticket for the math-o-phobes and the budget-conscious.

I have a request for anyone here who successfully gets ALEKS credit transcripted at one of the big 3:

It would be INCREDIBLY helpful to everyone here if you could please take a moment and post the course number/equivalency/credit hours that are given to you from your college.

I will do this too, but since I am facilitating this for my son, it will be a very long time before he completes all of 9 courses, and even longer before he enrolls at TESC- I'm estimating a minimum of 2 years from now. Someone has got to be able to find the equivalencies before me.

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Jennifer
ALM, Master of Liberal Arts, Harvard University, 2099 or sometime sooner
AA & BA, Social Sciences, Thomas Edison State College, 2008
AOS, Culinary Arts, Culinary Institute of America, 1990

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Jennifer-
I talked to Todd in the advising office. Beginning Algebra doesn't count at all (because "Beginning in the title means it's below College level, and we don't go that low other than the MAT105 class"). Lowest class that's eligible is the MAT115 Intermediate Algebra and ALEKS does apply for that.

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B.A. English, TESC, completed December 2008

Tests passed: A/I Lit-73, Mgmt-71, Amer Lit-73, Tech Writing-64, Criminal Justice-56, Here's to Your Health-65, Law Enforcement-60

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Ok, that's good to know. Todd is on the ball, but I'm still going to submit it, because I think with ACE evaluating it for college credit, TESC will take it somewhere.

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Jennifer
ALM, Master of Liberal Arts, Harvard University, 2099 or sometime sooner
AA & BA, Social Sciences, Thomas Edison State College, 2008
AOS, Culinary Arts, Culinary Institute of America, 1990

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I have to say this ALEKS stuff is actually kind of fun
It's annoying having to go over the S-A-M-E stuff over and over and over, but I definitely know it now
Plus the little games are really neat.
I'm a big fan so far.

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I'm done!
B.A. English, TESC, completed December 2008

Tests passed: A/I Lit-73, Mgmt-71, Amer Lit-73, Tech Writing-64, Criminal Justice-56, Here's to Your Health-65, Law Enforcement-60

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I'm glad to hear someone else likes it too.

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Jennifer
ALM, Master of Liberal Arts, Harvard University, 2099 or sometime sooner
AA & BA, Social Sciences, Thomas Edison State College, 2008
AOS, Culinary Arts, Culinary Institute of America, 1990

How to do your own Unofficial Evaluation http://www.degreeforum.net/general-e...ighlight=alpha

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Just a little update on ALEKS Intermediate Algebra. I'm about 73% done and 32 hours in.
It's not as much fun anymore as it was in the beginning
I'm not a Math person AT ALL, but I'm getting through it. It's um, INTENSIVE lol. I have definitely done a LOT more work on this than I ever have studying for a CLEP or DSST.

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I'm done!
B.A. English, TESC, completed December 2008

Tests passed: A/I Lit-73, Mgmt-71, Amer Lit-73, Tech Writing-64, Criminal Justice-56, Here's to Your Health-65, Law Enforcement-60

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Hang in there!!!! 73% is awesome. Keep going, your nearly finished!!!

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Jennifer
ALM, Master of Liberal Arts, Harvard University, 2099 or sometime sooner
AA & BA, Social Sciences, Thomas Edison State College, 2008
AOS, Culinary Arts, Culinary Institute of America, 1990

How to do your own Unofficial Evaluation http://www.degreeforum.net/general-e...ighlight=alpha

InstantCert WORKS! http://www.degreeforum.net/general-e...g-members.html

"Brick walls are there for a reason....They’re there to stop the other people.” Randy Pausch

I think that this may have been already been common knowledge but ALEKS-0005 (Precalculus) does satisfy the math requirement for a business degree. I just confirmed this with an academic advisor.

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For some reason the ALEKS courses are no longer showing up on the ACE National Guide. I wonder why.

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B.A. in Business Administration: Technology Management (magna cum laude) from Saint Leo University

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