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I enrolled in Excelsior College 8 weeks ago and decided to started with Math 101 and Information Literacy since I have been out of formal schooling for some time. I passed both with ease and was looking at the next courses to take.

I was looking into Psy 210 Life Span Developmental Psychology and found the course book content vs UExcel exam books to be very different. For the course there is one book listed, but for the exam there are 5 listed (2 required 3 extra). Can anyone tell me why?

I did ask academic advising and they said that there might be something in the Exam books that is not covered in the actual course since different instructors/people who are writing the tests may chose different questions. That seems to make at least some sense, some teachers may cover one topic more in depth than another.

In your individual experience, who thinks I would be okay saving myself a few hundred dollars on extra books and just learning from the course books and study guides, rather than buying all of the Exam required books?

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Specializes in Med-Surg, OR, ICU.

I took the practice exams, studied strictly off those for 2 days. Took the test and passed with a B. No books, no extras. Wasn't bad at all.

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Do you feel like you learned and retained the information that way though? I'm hoping to complete this as quickly as possible but I hope to really grasp the information too.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, OR, ICU.

Once I began going over the information it all resurfaced from the back of my head from taking it previously, so yeah. It was actually easier than before with experience as s nurse because you can put it into perspective of what is really going on. Even if I didn't know exactly what they were asking I was able to eliminate answers based on other processes that I do understand

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