Can someone please email the PASS YOUR CLASS version of the DSST-EThics in American study guide. It should be in Adobe Acrobat .pdf...i would greatly appreciate it. My email address is [email protected]. I have only one class left to test out of and would like this without having to spend a lot to buy it. Thanks and let me know on this thread after you have sent it...thanks in advance.
Is this some sort of hamfisted attempt at ironic humor, or are you really trying to pirate study materials for an ETHICS exam? If you want study materials for free, go to a library.
The Barcalow book in the fact sheet has it all. It's pretty good and worth your time. Interlibrary loan or cheap from Amazon.
hey fortunato.....just because your trying to "show-off" your intelligence by noting your degrees and using "big" words, does not mean you know me or the crap you spew out of that mouth of yours. How about you actually go about your own business and post to sights that care about your opinion. Because, here buddy, we don't give a care. Oh, and by the way...shouldn't you be using that "finance" degree to go and get a job...or did your employer lay you off for being a tool like you have shown here.
A lot of assumptions on your behalf, wouldn't you say? By including completed / in progress educational information in one's signature does not mean that they're trying to show off... and what big words are you referring to? He makes a valid point though - you are trying to obtain copyright protected study guides for free; This is not the forum to seek pirated anything. Your original post has been reported to the admins for further action.
I'm sorry pvon but here, meaning degreeinfo, we DO give a care. You're on vacation for a month. If you decide to come back then you should bring a different attitude. Oh yeah, then there's that pirating thing. Go somewhere else with that, understand?
I'm pleased to see the quick response by the Administrator. I must say Fortunato's response on a request to pirate a study guide (for Ethics no less) was well done. Good job! Thank you.
I had a paper and pencil test 4 weeks ago, so no instant gratification for me. I got my score last week while out of town -- 468. There were only about 5 stumpers (out of 100 questions) and perhaps 10 I had to really think hard about out of a total of 30 I marked for review. I spent the full 2 hours on the test. There was less emphasis on basics than I would've expected, but I still needed to know the basics to answer the questions. My preparation for this exam was different from prior exams. I started work in a meandering casual way while I was busy with two online classes, really just the odd moment here and there over a two-month period. My most concentrated study was during a business trip in May where I made it my after-hours project to read the Collins Outline. It also occurred to me that Philosophy 101 would be an appropriate prerequisite for this test, so I found a professor syllabus on the Web and reviewed the topics that were new to me in the encyclopedia. Then when my local DSST test site put me off for two months, I set the whole thing aside to finish the Economics CLEPs. I reviewed my notes every week or so. Things in my background that helped me on this exam include: taking Western Civ from a professor who taught about ideas, taking Western Art History exposure to the writing of dead European men from my Psych studies. Some of my non-academic interests exposed me to the topics around Native American, feminist, and Hindu ethical ideas. I obtained the Emmett Barcalow book recommended by DSST for this exam, but only had time to look it over briefly due to short interlibrary loan time limit. This book would probably give you all you need to get an excellent score on the test. What I used: Main resources: 1. InstantCert -- this was almost my first IC-only exam, but I wanted more after I started hearing about the refreshed exam being harder than the old one. My approach to IC: I go through the cards once, then second time through I take notes on anything I don't understand or have trouble answering. I print those notes and read non-IC sources on all the topics, and expand the notes with additional detail, which I add to my online notes. 2. Collins Outline Ethics. So far I've found Collins Outlines are a great exam resource. Some are out of print, but they are worth finding. 3. Stanford Online Encyclopedia of Philosophy -- very useful site for this exam; be careful to follow the exam outline, though, it's easy to go off-topic. 4. Peterson practice tests. One at the end of May when I thought I was ready (I was), and another in July to make sure I still remembered enough to take the test (I did). In most cases the Peterson tests are a little harder than the exam; with Ethics, I'm not sure that's true. They are close. The format of them is different -- the "yes/no" questions aren't on the DSST, but they do require you to think about ethical situations differently from multiple choice. Minor resources: Biography of Josiah Royce & his writing on loyalty, both found on Google Books (I ended up having no questions on Royce, but he was sort of interesting to learn about) Passion of the Western Mind, Richard Tarnas, selected sections -- the people and eras covered by the test. Having read this book before was good background prep for the test. Britannica -- the article under "Ethics" was a great backgrounder. Wikipedia -- esp on Hume, Locke, Rousseau, Rawls, Leopold and the feminists IC Feedback forum thread & study guide attached there, expanded with my own notes Many questions test the ability to think effectively about ethical situations; this is more than a facts & terms exercise, and I suspect it's the synthesis of concepts and application questions that made ACE recommend upper-level credit for the new version of the test. Most of the applied ethics questions on my version were biomedical/research ethics/euthanasia related. Two questions on the Belmont report threw me even though I read up on it pretty thoroughly. Is it more important to protect research subjects from harm or to respect their autonomy? Just one on business ethics. Understand what mutuality means in the context of intimate relationships. Who thought suicide is OK and in what circumstances? Be able to differentiate act and rule utilitarianism, but they may not be called by those names in the question. Similarly, be able to recognize a duty-based ethical problem even if "Kant" is not mentioned. I found the paper & pencil format weird after numerous computer-based CLEP. I found the 2 questions on Confucianism not worth doing extra study -- they are probably in the recommended books. 1 question on Rita Manning's ideas where I had to punt. Good to know what various Greeks thought of suicide. In fact the number of questions overall on suicide seemed odd to me. Of course, whether your life is yours to dispose of, or you belong to the community or to the taxing authority is an important question. Phillip
I took this exam cold....no studying and passed. A lot of the questions on this exam were simple, common-sense questions.
