excelsior college

Dear Alicia,

Go to the many threads posted on this subject and you will find alot of good advice.You can use the search for excelsior to help you.

Use the Excelsior study guides that will come with the material you pay for. There are many publishing companies that will sell you anything you want but will only make your bank account smaller. Check out the many web sites that will tell you this, including this one.

Hey everyone I ve Been accepted into EC. Can anyone tell me about any study guides that can help me pass these exams. Iam strongly considering Chancellors Study sytems

Companies that advertise associations with Excelsior are usually private publishing companies that are selling study supplies. Many students feel what Excelsior suggests for free is perfectly adequate. These companies have helped some but are expensive. They have no inside information as to what will be on the tests.

Thank you for your advice.

Is there anyone currently enrolled that can give me some pointers

I used the FREE Excelsior study guides and recommended textbooks to get an A on Nursing Concepts 1 and Nursing Concepts 2. I am studying for 3 and 4 the same way and feel confident that I will do just as well. Excelsior provides plenty of resources to study. This is not to steer you away from a publishing company, as some have had good luck with them, but I prefer to go to the source.

I am going strictly with EC but my coworkers are going with rue. We are comparing notes and they match up perfectly. Only difference is they are paying 99 dollars a month locked it no matter if they complete it or not. The nice thing is if you have some coworkers or study buds one can go with one of the third party study systems and you can all split the cost. I will say though I am sticking with EC for financial reasons my friends rue system has given us alot of direction.

I thought RUE was a book publishing company that is contracted to provide study guides. They are associated with EC. What is that company really?

Take Care :uhoh21:

My Husband just finished up with doing the RN program at excellsior, he said to use the outlines they give you and to CLEP.

I thought RUE was a book publishing company that is contracted to provide study guides. They are associated with EC. What is that company really?

Take Care :uhoh21:

Rue is not associated with Excelsior College. Excelsior provides their own study guides which many students find adequate. Some students have said they like Rue but is is expensive and you have to sign a long contract. Rue doesn't have an inside track to what is covered on the exams. Good luck.

Look through the threads on here that list the Yahoo study groups. They all have free study material, practice tests, and notes in their files sections. I used these and the EC course outlines- all free, and made good grades. There are also practice quizzes for NC 1-3 on the EC website. These are very close to the actual exams. Don't waste your $ on publishing companies. You don't need RUE, Chancellor's, etc. to pass the EC exams. Good luck! Starting this program can be overwhelming at first, but once you take the first exam, you'll have an idea of how they work.

I thought RUE was a book publishing company that is contracted to provide study guides. They are associated with EC. What is that company really?

Take Care :uhoh21:

Yes they are are publishing company. No they are NOT Contracted with EC. EC DISCOURAGES using them. They are not in anyway associated nor endorsed by EC.

Isn't it interesting how misleading thier ads are? The price they charge is astronomical for their guides. You can get free guides from EC written by the same people who design and write the actual exam.

Rue, Moore (Istudy Smart), and Chancellor are not endorsed recognized or authorized in anyway by EC to do what they do. It is a free enterprise system and any publisher can publish and sell in anyway they choose thier own books. That is what they do.

They are misleading but if you pay attention they "usually" do tell you who and what they are and what they can and cannot do. But the general sales pitch is so powerful most people miss the caviats.

I'm presently enrolled in EC and doing well. A's on the first two exams and headed toward the third on Friday, feeling good, confident, happy.

Since you have asked, here's what I'm doing. If you are inclined to email me, please feel free--I'm happy to "visit," and discuss, share, etc., etc. I figure we are all in this together.

First and foremost, if you see anything related to "Excel Advantage" or "Academy of Nursing," or posts by "nursesruletheplanet" or "robmanager," run, as they say, like hell. They have NO nurses involved in their program, they have collected stuff off free sites (what stuff they have), their "study guides" cost more than Chancellor's, cover less material, and, when you are done, you have nothing in your hands to show for it. Avoid them like the plague they are.

Personally, I'm using Chancellor's. I heard about it from another student on one of the yahoo groups. She was selling one used one, the price was right (for a looksee) and I bought it. It is a workbook with tapes of a guy reading the workbook, pretty much verbatim, but not totally. It covers material I had seen in my "traditional" school, and I knew the material to be accurate.

Since I learn best by auditory reinforcement, reading along with him not only helps me focus but apparently gives me two ways to remember the material: reading and hearing.

In addition, I joined every yahoo nursing group I could find, looked at all their files and downloaded the ones related to the courses I would be taking. I go over those notes, clean them up (grammar, spelling and formatting--just a thing I do), and as I am doing that, I am also reading the notes, so there is a third way I am exposing myself to the material.

I take the EC practice exams: they come two to an exam for $65. It is timed (2 hours), works very much like the real ones you take for a grade, except at the end you get your grade, all 100 questions with your answer and the right answer, along with rationale and the occasional odd note about the material addressed in that question. You can go back and look at those things for up to 2 (or is it 3?) months. I take one at the beginning of my prep and one near the end. Both times, because the questions are identified as being related to a particular topic area, I know which area I need to go back to, read over and concentrate on a little bit more.

I also take those "SETH" tests, although there will be some questions which are wrong. So, my rule of thumb is, if I disagree, or didn't know the material was right for a fact, I look it up: in my fundamentals texts, by googling, in the Chancellor's workbook. I find it somewhere. I also have one face to face study buddy, and one that I just email with. We share those questions back and forth as well.

That's all I can think of, so far. I'll be glad to find your email in my inbox, if you choose to send some. If I can be helpful, I'm glad to be.

Welcome to EC--personally, I think it is the most sane way to get to the RN. If you did your first year in a traditional school, you'll see what I mean.