College Math requirement

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Can anyone give me any input on what is the best route to take for college math?

I'm not bad at math, but at this point when I'm half way through my FCCA and only thinking about the CPNE, I want to get those math credits out of the way as quickly and painlessly as possible!

I will be calling excelsior for suggestions, but wanted to what others have done.

Thanks for reading! :)

Thanks CarolinaSantana. I did look into clepping math, but since I will be away for a couple of weeks overseas, I was looking for an online option.

Anyway, I did call Excelsior, and they said only a handful of math courses were approved through ALEKS, one of them being Beginning Algebra. So I signed up for it. I did pretty ok on the initial assessment-it was the quadratic equations that took some time to understand .

But for $19.95,its a sweet deal. And believe it or not, the learning progress pie chart actually motivates you to keep on going as you watch the colors change in it as you complete the modules.

NIbbles1, how did someone finish this in 3 days?!!! It must have taken a lot of coffee and dedication to get it done that quick! I'm looking at wrapping this up in a couple of weeks tops.

Also at the tail end of the FCCA , so end of July is going to be stressful! Oh well, one day at a time!

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Hi rrlpn,

ALEKS is a way of fulfilling your math pre-req. You can also CLEP it, like a previous poster mentioned.

It is completely online, super affordable,and you can do it on your own time. This is the website :ALEKS -- Assessment and Learning, K-12, Higher Education, Automated Tutor, Math . Once you score 70%, you apply for credit through ACE who forward the transcript to EC.

Hope this helps!

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thank you so much for this information. i had no idea this was out there. So Excelsior will accept this as a math corequesitite?

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