Getting started with BALS (Template Q&A)

[bjcheung77]

Ciggy, you should do the following FREE courses in this order because of the following.
1) The free Ethics course from the Institutes - 2 UL credits, it's the easiest of them all and ACE expires end of this month
2) The remainder of your TEEX courses - 6 LL credits total, they're the longest of them all and ACE also expires at end of the month
3) The 2 free Sophia courses expire later in the year so you don't have to rush on these - 2 LL credits total.

Note 1: Ethics is 2 credits, you'll need one of the Sophia course to make up 1 credit from the General Education/Free Electives
Note 2: For the BALS, I would place all of these courses into the elective free credits requirements

Since you're starting off, you should start off with the CLEP/MS option unless you're far from a test site or if there is none in your area. I would only recommend the "easier ones" and that doesn't duplicate Onlinedegree.com's offerings. Otherwise, you can start off with the Onlinedegree.com courses and take all of them, as it's 44 credits right there for Gen Ed/Free Electives. Each course at OD.com is only $9 for the exam, the final exam is only worth 40% of the grade, and an added benefit is that you get to do these from the comfort of home!