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Wow.. having spent hours of my life working in ALEKS (and then finally deciding to do the CLEP instead), I can really respect your accomplishment!!
Great job, that was no easy task!!
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So I signed up with ACE and paid the $40 to have it sent. Trigger happy I guess!!!
I'm going to give the Biz Stats a pop now. Hopefully this one won't take 2 months!!!!
Thanks for the encouragement!
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Congrats and good luck!!
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How long did it take you to complete it and how many hours, on average, were you putting in per week? Just curious!
Congrats :hurray:
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CollegeStudent7 Wrote:How long did it take you to complete it and how many hours, on average, were you putting in per week? Just curious!
Congrats :hurray:
Before starting ALEKS Intro to Stats, I had seen completion times of 40-70 hours; that range was accurate for me.
I also enjoyed watching "Against All Odds" videos (13 hours) at learner.org, which put the topics into context.
I also bought the Idiot's Guide for additional reference.
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CollegeStudent7 Wrote:How long did it take you to complete it and how many hours, on average, were you putting in per week? Just curious!
Congrats :hurray:
So first I was VERY eratic. This was my first effort in my degree, so there are a lot of bad habits I need to break and new habits to learn.
All in all I think I spent about 30 hours on the whole thing. I first tested at around 40% so just needed to get the final 30% (70%) is the pass rate.
To put that in perspective - I just took the Biz Stats one and hit 54% off the bat, then spent a few hours and am up to 60%, fully intend to finish that in about a week.
It is definately long, if you don't have a stats background you will need to learn it. I *suspect* there are easier credits (and I hope so as well!!!) at least judging from the comments I see...
Just my 2 cents!
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nyrsimon Wrote:So first I was VERY eratic. This was my first effort in my degree, so there are a lot of bad habits I need to break and new habits to learn.
All in all I think I spent about 30 hours on the whole thing. I first tested at around 40% so just needed to get the final 30% (70%) is the pass rate.
To put that in perspective - I just took the Biz Stats one and hit 54% off the bat, then spent a few hours and am up to 60%, fully intend to finish that in about a week.
It is definately long, if you don't have a stats background you will need to learn it. I *suspect* there are easier credits (and I hope so as well!!!) at least judging from the comments I see...
Just my 2 cents!
Simon
Wow...I tested at like 5% to start I think. Embarrassing.
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CollegeStudent7 Wrote:Wow...I tested at like 5% to start I think. Embarrassing.
No it's not - it just depends on what you know already. If I took a nursing exam (or some other subject that I don't know much about) I'm sure I wouldn't get more than 1 or 2 percent...
Take the 5% and keep going. Only 65% more to go!!!
Simon
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Congrats!
Make sure you guys are printing your question explanations to a pdf for each and every question in the learning mode.
I had a folder full of about 60 pdfs when I was done and this was invaluable in taking the exams.
I completed stats in 40 long hours and the next day I took business stats and completed in about 4 hours. I got a 71% on the initial assessment since I already had all the pdfs available for 90% of the questions. I just had to work the problems slowly.
At TESC you can also get credit for college algebra and pre-calc on aleks so do those too. I used mathway.com to help out.
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