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Aleks intro to Statistics - jmichelle79 - 03-17-2012
I just started the assessment for Intro to Stats,, WOW - I foresee a long road ahead. :eek:
Aleks intro to Statistics - cookderosa - 03-18-2012
jmichelle79 Wrote:I just started the assessment for Intro to Stats,, WOW - I foresee a long road ahead. :eek:t
The free Khan videos for stats and prob work really well with the ALEKS stats course. In fact, after I'd gotten through the vids, I worked up to about 58% in ALEKS, I just went and took the DSST and passed
Aleks intro to Statistics - jmichelle79 - 03-18-2012
I will check out the khan videos
thanks for the tip.
Aleks intro to Statistics - Lindagerr - 03-20-2012
It was taking me forever to get through ALEKS Stats until I gave up 2 Cs then I started just printing out every explanation if I couldn't solve it right away. I had a lot of pages but I used the backs as scrap paper. I finally got through and got my 70%. It can be a very difficult course if your brain can't wrap around some of the wierd concepts. Khan videos did help too. Good Luck I know you can do it.
Aleks intro to Statistics - jmichelle79 - 03-20-2012
Thanks again for the advice.
I have decided to start pre-cal and revisit stats.
I want to give myself time to watch the Khan videos and try to absorb stats.
Aleks intro to Statistics - dcan - 03-21-2012
FYI you can print to PDF or XPS files that are searchable. So you can save them to a folder with a name (i.e. name the file the same as the page title) and search among the files using Windows' search feature.
Personally I had a copy of Microsoft OneNote that I'd never used, and always wanted an excuse to use one of these, so now I have a OneNote notebook filled with hundreds of pages of screenshots and "printouts" from ALEKS plus all of my actual work. If you can swing it I highly recommend it, it made the work much easier.
Aleks intro to Statistics - westmoorenerd - 03-22-2012
I did the same thing as cookderosa did...After about 17 hours in ALEKS, I hit the 70% mark. I took an assessment, which knocked me down to 63%... I said screw it, took the DSST the next week and passed.
I did learn quite a lot using ALEKS, but the grading is extremely unforgiving. Miss one question, or one part of a question and all of a sudden ALEKS thinks you have no idea what you're talking about.
Aleks intro to Statistics - ryoder - 03-23-2012
I pressed on and ended up with 40 hrs in stats to get my passing 74%.
Aleks intro to Statistics - jmichelle79 - 03-25-2012
I'm at about 60% on Pre-calculus. Hopefully I will be able to complete this soon.
I save the notes in a folder so I can have access to them without printing. I use linux, so saving my files might be a little different than with windows; but I have not had a problem.
dcan, the Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet is pretty cool
tempted to buy a new toy.Thanks again for all your advice!
Aleks intro to Statistics - walternc3 - 03-25-2012
My best advice on aleks would be to keep going to at least 72% before requesting an assessment because you'll probably lose at least a couple of points and those assessments can take hours. As mentioned above, printing out everything that you don't understand helps. For word problems there are "usually" between 4 and 8 examples and if you print them all out (with the slightly different wording) you can get through even the most difficult word problems.