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ryoder Wrote:I have been writing a lot of papers lately and I would say that writing a 15-20 page paper with references takes 15 hours minimum of work to complete.
A final exam could take the same amount of time to study for and if you are a little uneasy about being able to produce the answers quickly without a book it can be nerve wracking.
Its nice to have options though.
Penn Foster financial management and others transfer to TESC and have an unproctored final exam and can be completed in a week. Straighterline.com courses also transfer to TESC and have no proctored exams.
As long as it takes me to read over the review material is as long as it takes me to study for an exam. I have a partial photographic memory, so proctored exams are much less time consuming for me. If I can complete a study guide or read review material in a couple of hours, then that's all I the time I will take studying.
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That might work on some tests but probably won't work on statistics or finance because the math portions require practice.
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But you wouldn't have to write a 10 page paper on statistical or finance problems, right? So you pretty much don't have a choice but to study. I'm taking statistics through ALEKS anyway and psychology doesn't have many quantitative requirements.
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Aren't most online courses now going the online proctor route, so that we don't have to worry about finding one ourselves?
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Most to all classes use an online proctor to teach the course. Some online courses allow an online proctored Final exam, some still require you to find someone near you to proctor written exams in person.
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You can actually do a search through TESC courses and look at the class syllabus and they will let you know whether or not their is a proctored exam or not.
hope this helps...
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06-02-2011, 09:17 PM
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Shadowless Wrote:Does anyone know of any Thomas Edison courses that don't require a proctored exam? Or any classes that don't require you to purchase a book?
Not sure if anybody else mentioned this, but PLA courses don't have exams or textbooks. There is a lot of writing, since you have to document what you know, and what you know has to be at a college level. For me, I prefer the PLA, but I also like to write. If you don't like to write or are not a good writer than it's not a good choice.
Another advantage of PLA is the sheer volume of classes available. Here are the PLA courses in the TESC catalog:
Thomas Edison State College/ Prior Learning Assessment Courses
I recently discovered that there are actually MANY more courses that can be taken this way, but they are not standard TESC courses in the catalog. You can access the database of these PLA courses here:
Thomas Edison State College/ Prior Learning Assessment Description Database
You can also create your own PLA for a subject not already listed in the database. Instructions to do so are here:
Undergraduate Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) - Thomas Edison State College - acalog ACMSââ¢
I hope to take about 1/2 my remaining units via PLA.
Edited for spelling
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