06-14-2017, 04:52 PM
Another update...
I scored my first A on a Davar exam. I scored 90 on FIN-310/International Finance. I have to say that this is pretty impressive on Davar's part. I am a good test-taker. I used to score in the upper 90s in percentiles on basic skills tests in grade school. I had a 33 on the ACT. These are legitimate tests.
My plan was to finish up with the FIN-401/Corporate Finance exam, but this one seems to be very difficult. There are a lot of formulas to memorize on the powerpoint. I will need some time to study for the test. So, I still had the evening last night and I decided to review the Davar exams that I had not taken to see if there was something that I had overlooked. On a whim, I decided to take the ACCT-301 test. This should transfer as an introductory financial accounting class at TESU. I already have this one, but I took it at a community college and my class was four credits. I decided to see how it would transfer, so I took the test. This is an introductory financial accounting test. I know that there was a question on this board about whether there are calculations on the Davar accounting exams. Well, there are. About ten of the multiple choice questions on this exam required calculations. About three of the essays required calculation. It wasn't impossible, but I did have to think a little bit. I think that they were in line with the kind of calculations you would need to do in an accounting job. A multiple choice test can't replicate working a spreadsheet, but this wasn't too bad. I ended up scoring an 86 on this exam.
In a fit of lunacy, I also tried the MAT-201/College Algebra test. I already have all of the non-statistics ALEKS classes, so this was really not necessary on my part. The slideshow is, unbelievably, about 486 slides long. I took a look and said to myself, "Hell, no" and just decided to take the exam cold. Well, it is a legitimate college algebra exam. It is only 34 questions long. This is NOT an advantage. I completed the first six questions and then hit some difficult ones and just decided to eyeball the answers to see if I could just finesse my way through. I just really wasn't into it, so I started to narrow possibilities and guess. Unlike other Davar exams, this one has zero essays. Again, this is not a good thing. This actually kind of surprised me because I remember that the MAT-202 exam did have ten essay questions. That made me laugh. Again, this is a legitimate algebra exam. This one has immediate scoring and I failed with a 16 out of 34 with a 47%. This was my second Davar fail.
After that experience, I have absolved myself of any desire to take the statistics exam. My guess is that it will be similar and I have better things to do with the time.
One more exam is left for me. FIN-401. Maybe tomorrow?
I scored my first A on a Davar exam. I scored 90 on FIN-310/International Finance. I have to say that this is pretty impressive on Davar's part. I am a good test-taker. I used to score in the upper 90s in percentiles on basic skills tests in grade school. I had a 33 on the ACT. These are legitimate tests.
My plan was to finish up with the FIN-401/Corporate Finance exam, but this one seems to be very difficult. There are a lot of formulas to memorize on the powerpoint. I will need some time to study for the test. So, I still had the evening last night and I decided to review the Davar exams that I had not taken to see if there was something that I had overlooked. On a whim, I decided to take the ACCT-301 test. This should transfer as an introductory financial accounting class at TESU. I already have this one, but I took it at a community college and my class was four credits. I decided to see how it would transfer, so I took the test. This is an introductory financial accounting test. I know that there was a question on this board about whether there are calculations on the Davar accounting exams. Well, there are. About ten of the multiple choice questions on this exam required calculations. About three of the essays required calculation. It wasn't impossible, but I did have to think a little bit. I think that they were in line with the kind of calculations you would need to do in an accounting job. A multiple choice test can't replicate working a spreadsheet, but this wasn't too bad. I ended up scoring an 86 on this exam.
In a fit of lunacy, I also tried the MAT-201/College Algebra test. I already have all of the non-statistics ALEKS classes, so this was really not necessary on my part. The slideshow is, unbelievably, about 486 slides long. I took a look and said to myself, "Hell, no" and just decided to take the exam cold. Well, it is a legitimate college algebra exam. It is only 34 questions long. This is NOT an advantage. I completed the first six questions and then hit some difficult ones and just decided to eyeball the answers to see if I could just finesse my way through. I just really wasn't into it, so I started to narrow possibilities and guess. Unlike other Davar exams, this one has zero essays. Again, this is not a good thing. This actually kind of surprised me because I remember that the MAT-202 exam did have ten essay questions. That made me laugh. Again, this is a legitimate algebra exam. This one has immediate scoring and I failed with a 16 out of 34 with a 47%. This was my second Davar fail.
After that experience, I have absolved myself of any desire to take the statistics exam. My guess is that it will be similar and I have better things to do with the time.
One more exam is left for me. FIN-401. Maybe tomorrow?
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