New Marketing Comm. TECEP & others

[SweetSecret]

My capstone course is done (thank goodness) and now I just need 9 more credits to meet residency for graduation. I'd initially planned to take
the TECEPS for "Marketing Communications" along with "Marriage and the Family". I've already taken the TECEPS for Abnormal Psychology, Psychology of Women, Advertising, and Public Relations. There was a lot of overlap with the last two. I'm getting really jittery/worried though about taking the marketing communications exam due to the large number of essay questions. One essay question make me nervous enough, let alone six essay questions! I'm planning to graduate in September, but if I fail one of these exams it would put me behind to graduate. I'm looking for advice, or maybe a pep talk about dealing with the essay questions. I think I'd feel better if I had a better idea of what to expect on the essay questions. Any thoughts on all of this? What third TECEP test would you all recommend taking? I'm wanting to go to graduate school for social entrepreneurship, and the BA covers multimedia and human services.

[bricabrac]

What about CIS-107? It would most likely be the easiest exam for someone with a decent level of computer experience.

[dfrecore]

I thought the easiest by far was Applied Liberal Arts Math - if you can pass basic algebra, you can pass this exam. For anyone who is a BSBA major who has to take College Algebra, this is MUCH easier than that.

After that I think Tech Writing was very easy, English Comp II was pretty easy as well. So English Comp I would probably be ok (I didn't take it). Essays don't necessarily make them more difficult in my opinion. Public Relations was harder than any of those, and there were no essay questions.

I took Computer Concepts, I thought it was ok, but not "easy" for someone who isn't pretty computer literate. But if you feel comfortable with computers, you will probably be just fine.

[SweetSecret]

I'm actually really horrible at math. I actually joke about it pretty often because it's so stereotypical of people from my previous work. I'd say I only knew how to count in ones, twenties, fifties, and hundreds. Seriously though, I am tempted to do some hardcore studying and attempt the Statistics TECEP. I had a really low grade in statistics that I would LOVE to replace. It's probably not going to happen though, and really why chance it.

I'd love to take the computer applications exam, but I'm sort of split on it. In some way it seems like I should at least attempt something a bit more relevant and serious, but on the other hand I think I am half worried that I've forgotten too much over time.

[SweetSecret]

I just wanted to update this thread.

First off, if anyone was planning to graduate in September and only has TECEPS left - apply for graduation NOW and you might be able to graduate in June! Basically I was told that as long as all of my credits are complete by the time they do the graduation audits, then anyone applying for graduation now would still graduate in June. If for some reason you aren't done, the money gets automatically rolled over to the next graduation... so you don't pay the graduation fee more than once. I was told the audits are typically done early to mid May.

I took some time to do the sample TECEP exams and scored equally well for both Computer Concepts/Applications, and Sales Management. Since all of my vanilla job sales experience is so far in the past that I can't even put it on my rÃsumÃ, and I have about a decade and a half of sales experiences from a non-vanilla job that I can't list on my rÃsumÃ, I decided to make an attempt at the Sales Management TECEP. So I am officially registered, have my Kindle E-books, and am set to go. I'm going to try to attempt getting this all done to graduate in June. Super psyched!

[clep3705]

Seriously though, I am tempted to do some hardcore studying and attempt the Statistics TECEP. I had a really low grade in statistics that I would LOVE to replace. It's probably not going to happen though, and really why chance it.

Using credit by exam to replace a low grade may not work. It depends on the school. Some schools will not award credit by exam for a course that was taken for a grade - how you did as a student actually enrolled in the course is immutable in the minds of some registrars. There isn't a universal rule on how this may be handled.

[SweetSecret]

Using credit by exam to replace a low grade may not work. It depends on the school. Some schools will not award credit by exam for a course that was taken for a grade - how you did as a student actually enrolled in the course is immutable in the minds of some registrars. There isn't a universal rule on how this may be handled.

Correct, it would not replace the actual grade. However, for masters programs requiring statistics a passing TECEP would show an attempt at learning it a second time and doing better.


Also, just an FYI regarding the graduation thing - I received an email from TESU saying they start the graduation audits the week of April 14th. Apparently they go in the order the graduation applications were received, so mine will probably be towards the end, which means it could still be into May.