I'm about to go above 70% on my pie. Once I hit the 70% or above can I stop and submit my paperwork through ACE for college credit or do I have to keep working on problems until ALEKS gives me another assessment and then must I pass the assessment with 70% or above in order to submit my paperwork? Thanks, Dave
You must reach the 70%+ via assessment for ACE to accept the course. You can force assessments through your master account, so you don't have to wait for ALEKs to give you one.
Don't forget, an assessment will add or subtract somewhat from the pie, the score you have from the actual coursework does matter to your grade, but you must complete an assessment and still be over 70% for the class.
ALEKS gave me another assessment last night and I finished it at 71%. I registered with ACE, selected ALEX then the course. I thought I would receive a confirmation email from ACE stating that I submitted the cource for college credit but have not received anything by email. Dave
Check under transcripts review in Ace if im not mistaken and it will tell you pending. They will send you an email it might have been that it just didnt go through yet. I never got emails till like the 3rd day. hope this helps
You're done! It will update on its own at this point. Good job on completing ALEKS! That's no small accomplishment.
>> You only pay ACE when you request an official transcript. If you are going to do more ALEKS courses (until your month runs out) you can wait and then you'll have one transcript with both grades.
Grade wasn't what rickyjo was looking for, it was percentage. The point was that the questions you answer while doing the normal work affects the assessment numbers as well but you still have to get over 70% on the assessment.
I'm very sorry, I see how I was unclear, and JB is right. What I meant was that completing course work will not only enrich your knowledge but help you raise your percentage semi-permanently. Even if you bomb the assessment your percentage will not drop to the actual score you received on that test, the fact you were approaching a high score will help keep your score from dropping radically. Only the topics covered in the assessment that you get wrong will be subtracted from your pie. Everything else you have learned that was not covered in the test or got correct remains intact; therefore, the percentage does not drop as drastically. The scoring mechanism for ALEKS is very convoluted and by my calculations a 70% on the opening test does not translate to 70% completion of the course, in fact one must pass a certain amount at the beginning of the test for the exam to continue long enough to even successfully cover 70% of topics, let alone pass. I cannot prove this, but you will notice that scores are not always multiples of the number of questions (often 20, 25, or 30 depending on the test). For example, if I get a 73% when I'm asked 25 questions, clearly the scoring mechanisms are more complex than "x%/question". I hope that makes sense.
