Should I take the straighterline college algebra course?

[dfrecore]

Aright so based of what is said here I should just do the SL course for college algebra? Even if I don't have a good background in intermediate background? I did the aleks knowledge placement exam and it basically said I better review concepts I should know before I start college algebra.

If you can't pass the course, you've wasted your time and money.  It would also suck to struggle through it, and need more than a month to complete it (another $99!!).

When it had been a very long time since I'd taken math (and I'm not math-phobic at all), I started out with Pre-Algebra, and worked my way up.  I would recommend that you maybe start with Khan Academy and do Pre-Algebra or Algebra I, and see how you do through that before starting SL.  If you get through those ok, you can either continue on with Algebra II, or else start on SL.

I personally would do Algebra II, so that the SL course was really easy and I could get through it very quickly, but that's just me.