Hey guys. Basically I need about 7 classes to complete my Excelsior General Business Degree. I am particularly concerned about the Principles of Statistics and Finance credits. If anyone has had extremely good luck with any particular traditional online or independent study classes or modes of study for the Dantes tests I would appreciate your sharing that information with me. I have used Instantcert.com for 3 exams and have scored in the 60 range for all 3. However, I have read that they are not the best for the math-based courses. Thanks..
Instacert won't help on Finance..... I took and passed both of these exams. I relied on Instacert for Finance and I was grossly underprepared. I loved Instacert for Business Law, Supervision, etc;; but not Finance. These exams are very passable, but considerably harder then the other exams. Check out www.degreeforum.com, go to the clep/Dantes section, for a great thread on each of these exams. They have the links for everything you'll need to ace these exams. Good luck!
If you are looking for good finance texts I recommend "Principles of Corporate Finance" by Richard A. Brealey and "Finance (Barron's Business Review Series)" by Angelico A. Groppell. Read the Principles book, and do the review problems in the other. You should have no problems passing any finance test.
I would agree that Instantcert isn't the best source for Stats and Finance. I'm assuming you're planning to take the DANTES version of each. I personally found the Standard Deviants videos useful, but I'm the kind of person that can soak up concepts while watching TV. I took some shortcuts with Finance and ended up getting an "A", but just - needed a 56 and received a 58. For Stats I received a 71 so there was a lot of headroom there. As Ultimale said, there are some tips posted on my site, but my one piece of advice is know how to calculate the Internal Rate of Return (I thought I didn't need to know this). Also, get a good calculator for both. I used the TI BAII Plus which worked well, once I learned how to use it. Cheers, Mark
