HELP! College Algebra holding me back for my MBA...

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Taking a course in Beginning Algebra will not satisfy the College Algebra requirement - it needs to be College Algebra (I'm inferring this from your original post - check to see if a lower-level course will work). I feel your pain, I'm struggling through it now (and I was an A student in math all the way through Trig/Analytic Geometry in HS). If I knew then what I know now, I would have taken College Algebra and Statistics my first semesters in college when it was fresh. Now, it's 27 years later and not so...fresh.

I would find out what your college will accept, and then work on that. ALEKS is good, even if you can't use the credit, I think you can learn enough to pass the CLEP exam. If they won't take CLEP, ask about a TECEP. Ask about Saylor. UExcel. TECEP's and UExcels are on actual college transcripts, they may just have something on the transcript that shows it was not a regular course you took. UofIdaho IS has a course, so does CSU Pueblo IS. They will both be on a college transcript.

Again, I feel your pain. I am taking the College Algebra TECEP on Friday with minimal study time, just to see how I do. If I don't pass, I will continue with ALEKS, when I get to the 70% on the assessment, I will transfer it to ACE so I can get the credits, take the TECEP one more time, and if I still don't pass, I will just take another TECEP that will be easier for me to pass (I need 8).

You CAN do this, it just takes some people more time than others to learn a subject, but don't let this stop you!

While you're at it, you will probably need Statistics (most MBA programs require some sort of quantitative reasoning course), I would do that after College Algebra. While you're in "Math mode".

Good luck!