I’ve had a three week break from Penn Foster
College because I have
had to wait to take my two re-take exams for Business Orientation and
Principles of Management. I paid the $25
fee for the makeup exams, and I waited.
And waited.
It took nearly three weeks for my check to get cashed by Penn Foster
College, and at the end
of this last week I received a call from my proctor that he has my makeup
exams. Oh no. I have been busy packing boxes and moving
into a new home, and I have had absolutely NO time to study at all.
I must take and return my exams with 90 days of the date I
took my original exams. By my calculations,
that will be the middle of February. So,
I have to call my proctor on Tuesday, and schedule the re-take exam for
sometime within the next two weeks (to allow time for mail, which apparently
moves pretty slowly to Scranton,
PA).
That should give me a couple of weeks to study for the
re-take exam. I plan to use a different
tactic with these exams. The last time I
took the exams, I ran out of time. I
estimate I’ll have about an hour and a half to take the two exams…half an hour
for Business Orientation and an hour for Principles of Management. I’m going to take copious amounts of notes as
I go through my text, to make it easier to locate the information I think will
appear on the exams.
The re-take exams will have different questions, of
course. But, at least I have a general
idea of what is on the exam, and the type of questions I’ll have. There are no multiple answer questions on
these exams. All of the questions
require short essays. It doesn’t help
that my penmanship is horrendous, and I write slowly. It’s too bad I can’t type all of the answers
to the exam. I type about 90 words a
minute, so I would be done with the exams in no time.
I’m assuming it will take another two to three weeks after
the exams to get my grades, so I’m looking at starting the next semester
sometime by the end of February. This
will make it that much more difficult to accomplish my goal of finishing two
semesters and starting the fourth by the end of this year. I guess I’ll have to work faster.