I passed Personal Finance today with a 68! That gives me an "A" at Excelsior. I studied for about one week, maybe less. I used The Wall Street Journal: Complete Personal Finance Guidebook by Jeff Opdyke. I also used the DSST study guide. The study guide is good because it gives you, with pre and post exams, roughly 80 questions. So you familiarize yourself with the type of questions.

This exam really is not very hard. There were a few questions that I got wrong because they were fairly deep but most of the exam was information that any savvy professional would know. Example, What is the role of the Federal Reserve. The answer: control monetary policy. Other questions were related to the rule of 72. If you have $1000 and earn 6% interest, how many years would it take to double your money. There were two or three questions like that. Another question was which form do you fill out to determine your tax deduction amount. Answer: W4. Or who pays social security tax. Answer: employee and employer. If you have $1000 and earn 15% interest, how many years until you reach $1500. Answer: 3 years.

Well done blueyzz, and thank you for the great feedback.

What's next for you?

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My name is Rob
So far, I have earned 142 credits (12 not used).

Excelsior College
- BS Psychology (5 courses/exams to go)
- BS Business (2 courses/exams to go)
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Upcoming: N/A
In-progress: CSU-Pueblo: Labor Relations course
Most Recently Completed: English Composition at PFC (97).
Exams/Courses Passed To Date (43):
- Courses (4): 1 ECE, 1 CSU-Pueblo, 2 PFC.
- Exams (39): 24 DANTES, 15 CLEP.
GPA: 4.0

I am taking Principles of Supervision next week, possibly tomorrow. I have already passed Principles of Management and Intro to Business, and I believe there is a great deal of overlap for the Principles of Supervision exam. After that I am taking ECE Organizational Behavior, ECE Human Resources and ECE Ethics. That will complete my upper-level business requirements. Hope to have these three done by February or early March.

Sounds like a solid plan. Congrats on Personal Finance and good luck on the rest!

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Michael

CLEP - ISCA 68, Sociology 72, Psych 73, A&I Lit 61, HG&D 65, Ed Psych 70, Marketing 72, Management 69, Macroeconomics 63, Microeconomics 67
DSST - Intro to Comp 66, MIS 61, Supervision 67, Counseling 58 - no study!, Personal Finance 67, Statistics 60, Criminal Justice 57, Ethics 58, Finance 63 (All A's at EC)
COC - 2007 (Community College) - Acctg I&II 10c, Work/Study 4c, Intro to Research (Info Lit req) 1c, Society and Rock & Roll 3c, Fund of Music 3c, Guitar I & II 4c, Bass Guitar I 2c
ECE - Ethics (A), HRM (B), Organizational Behavior (B) | CSU - Operations Mgmt. (A) | TECEP - Business Policy 80 (CR)

My Excelsior Degree Journey

Bachelor of Science in General Business, cum laude
Excelsior College
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