- CLEP Principles of MacroEconomics
- CLEP Principles of MicroEconomics
- DSST Principles of Statistics
- DSST Intro to Computers
- DSST Intro to Business
- Information Literacy - make sure your enrolled by now.
- Military option - make sure you're enrolled in courses to fulfill 6-credit residency.

Information Literacy reminder

The IL 102 course costs appx $285 for civilians and $225 for military members (covered by tuition assistance). It is an online course that will take appx 2 days to complete @ 8 hours a day uninterrupted. My only advice is that you actually go through all the study modules before taking the final exam. Even though it may be tedious and you may feel you already know the material, it's better to take a few hours now and study, then to have to re-enroll because you failed. And your graduation status is on hold because you are missing the IL requirement.

Military option reminder

For those of you enrolled in the military option, now would be a great time for you to decide whether or not you are going to stick with having to take 6 credit hours @ Excelsior to meet the residency, or switch to the regular enrollment and pay the difference. Note that you don't have to pay the difference right now, you could do it anytime before the cut-off date for the next graduation (if you've completed degree requirements). You should have already routed and gotten approved your special request chit for 7 semester hours worth of tuition assistance (1 for the IL 102, the other 6 for other courses @ Excelsior).

If your solely taking these classes to fulfill residency, take the 2 easiest topics to enroll. However, you may want to also think about enrolling in courses that would help you for the Bachelors. Preferribly either the one we're doing now (General Business) or start now working on a second major (such as Psychology). Time management includes thinking ahead.

CLEP Principles of Macroeconomics

I took the last of the old paper based exams for this one right before they got phased out from the military centers as well. I got a 53 on it (44 minimum). Some tips and tricks for this exam include:
- Know the different types of incomes.
- Know the Production Posibilities curve and opportunity costs and efficiency.
- Know the different types of goods (normal good, inferior good, substitute good)
- Know price elasticity
- Know the difference between short run and long run supply and demand and how to identify them on a chart. (this is about 15-20 percent of the test)
- Know how the different ecomonies work and how countries interact with each other.

Instantcert's Macroeconomics guide was awesome on this topic.

CLEP Principles of Microeconomics

It is possible for you to take both Macroeconomics and Microeconomics in the same week. But because it's probably overwhelming for someone new to the topic (including myself), I wanted to spread it out some more. I got a 60 on the Microeconomics exam. Concentrate your effors on:
- Knowing the formula and concept for the price elasticity of both demand and supply
- know long run vs short run and how to identify them on a graph.
- economies of scale
- different types of goods
- just about all the topics covered in the instantcert guide.

DSST Principles of Statistics

I thought this one would be hard. And I dangerously crammed for 3 days straight, staying up for 30 hours straight with a nap or two inbetween (because remember, I still have a day job....the Navy) in order to take this one at the Navy College. I scored a 61 on this exam. I hugged the proctor afterwards I was so happy :) I was always intimidated by that 'E' symbol (the one that means 'the sum of'). But thanks again to instantcert for their tremendous help. I will copy and paste some of the text from an e-mail that was sent that sums up some of the material covered:

"It was appx 100 questions and most of it was APPLICATION of the principles laid out in your study guide. About 45 of the questions used calculations of some sort, so knowing the basic SD, mean, r, standard error, regression line formula (least squares), and probablility setup was important. Some questions were as basic as asking "which of the following scattergrams represents positive linear regression?" The key is to get those easy questions and use elimination for some that you forgot how to setup/solve. I would say that I answered about 35-40 questions this way (eliminating what I knew couldn't be right) and then moving on from the available choices."

I would take this version vs. the Excelsior version because the Excelsior version has more questions and is timed. It took me 3.5 hours to take the DSST version (remember, I was up for about 26 hours straight prior to beginning the test).