Why Charter Oak State College is better than Thomas Edison State College

[sanantone]

One of the things I would say about you Sanantone is that you are definitely more motivated than the average or even motivated person. You are like an enyclopedia of knowledge when it comes to this stuff, to that I humbly concede, and I used your sample guides on the wiki for deciding between TESC and COSC.

I actually would have preferred to go through TESC – so any comments people are making that I am dissing their colleges should not be relevant as far as TESC and COSC go (I wasn't even dissing Excelsior – the education is all the same, I was merely talking about the name game which is a relevant factor for many).

The major problem I had with your degree programs (and I like to think that I am fairly competent, intelligent, and decent work ethic), was the lack of quick, easy, and practical materials for the TECEP exams. If TECEP had those, as well as sufficient Instantcert/DegreeForum materials, I would have gone with them. I'm a decent/good test taker, and whether it has been in college, or standardized exams, the golden rule has always been to obtain old exams from previous students, taking lots of practice questions/exams, and using the best review materials possible. In many cases, that has meant materials like The Princeton Review, Kaplan Review, InstantCert.com, Cliff's Notes, etc. I'm sure that I would personally pass some of the exams for TECEP, but not without a great deal of annoyance and frustration not knowing what would probably be on the exam. I would caution and urge most students to absolutely always do practice exams and use a good review material/book for any standardized exam and I think that's good advice in general.

Instantcert doesn't know anymore than any of us what is going to be on the exam, and they often get it wrong. All guides are based on test breakdowns supplied by the test maker. The Peterson's exams are okay for practice, but they really aren't anything like the real thing. The only good practice exams are the official ones that come from the test maker. By the way, the TECEP descriptions give you many example questions along with the answers. There are also questions you can answer within the recommended textbooks. TECEPs often take questions directly from the recommended textbooks.