First CLEP test!

I have taken my first CLEP test...and passed! I took the Information Systems and Computer Applications test which basically is a 3 credit Computer Science elective. This starts me on my road to a AS in Business degree which I am hoping to finish by June of 2009. At this point I want to take the Analyzing and Interpreting Literature test on Nov. 29 when we will be in Macomb again and the College Math test after that. That will give me 12 credits for this fall semester, which is basically a full-load without having studied more than 1-2hrs in any week.


I think that I will enroll at Excelsior around the end of summer '08 and that will give me until end of summer '09 to finish all the classes for the ASB. It would be nice to accelerate the process and complete a BS in Business Administration by that time, but I don't know if that is realistic to hope for. I have been working full-time this fall and if that continues, I will not be able to study as much as it would take to complete the BS in that time, I think.

I didn't use all the time I had available, only about 70 minutes. Next time I need to figure out how to skip the tutorial at the beginning so that I can get right into the test. It teaches you how to use a mouse (groan...) and how to click buttons...So next time it will only be the testing time.

If I can get lots of studying done while we are traveling over the next couple weeks, I may be able to take another of the general CLEPs, like Social Studies and History, or Humanities. I debate about when to take such a big test as humanities...If I take it to soon when I am not prepared I will have 6 months before I can take it again. On the other hand, if I wait until I think I am all prepared and still flunk it, it will be 6 months from then before I can retake it. The obvious solution is just to not fail :P but that is always a possibility.

Anyway, I am excited about taking these CLEP tests. God is truly blessing!

Results from CLEP College math test

I tallied my results from my CLEP College Math test that I took a couple nights last week and it doesn't look to bad.

• There were 60 questions
  
• I had marked 20 of them with a question mark, signifying that I either didn't know the answer and had guessed or that I didn't even know what they wanted and had guessed
  
• I got 9 questions wrong for a score of 71 @ 85% accuracy
  
• 6 of those questions were marked ? meaning that I had 70% accuracy on the questions marked with ?
  
• 3 questions were wrong from the ones I didn't question meaning I had 92.5% accuracy on those questions

I think I may take that test this week if possible...

Book order from Better World books

I made a purchase at Betterworld.com online bookstore Friday. I have the list of books I bought below:

PayPal Shopping Cart Contents

Item Name:		Business Law (Barron's Business Review Series) by Robert W. Emerson, John W. Hardwicke
Item Number:		AAA-335-881:L298
Quantity:		1
Total:		$3.98 USD

Item Name:		Accounting (Barron's Business Review Series) by Peter J. Eisen
Item Number:		AAA-442-456:VA-967
Quantity:		1
Total:		$3.48 USD

Item Name:		Finance (Barron's Business Review Series) by Angelico A. Groppelli, Ehsan Nikbakht
Item Number:		ZF-335-881:L296
Quantity:		1
Total:		$3.48 USD

Item Name:		Economics (Business Review Series) by Peter Eisen
Item Number:		DV-044-068:L470
Quantity:		1
Total:		$4.98 USD

Item Name:		Management (Barron's Business Review Series) by Patrick J. Montana, Bruce H. Charnov
Item Number:		CT-035-650:Z120-5
Quantity:		1
Total:		$3.98 USD

Item Name:		Marketing (Barron's business review series) by Richard Sandhusen
Item Number:		CU-025-453:L194A
Quantity:		1
Total:		$3.98 USD

Item Name:		CLEP Official Study Guide: 17th Edition (Clep Official Study Guide) by The College Board
Item Number:		AAA-143-762:L470
Quantity:		1
Total:		$7.48 USD

Item Name:		Microeconomics: Principles, Problems, and Policies by Campbell R. McConnell, Stanley L. Brue
Item Number:		CS-015-656:NH-101
Quantity:		1
Total:		$3.48 USD

Item Name:		Carbon Neutral Shipping
Item Number:		1_CARBON
Quantity:		8
Total:		$0.24 USD

Cart Subtotal:		$35.08 USD
Sales Tax:
Cart Total:		$35.08 USD

Supposedly, they will be delivered to home before the end of next week. I hope so because we will be coming back then and I need to have them with me.