re: LSUS Online MBA Reviews

GSMBA16,
I normally don't really get into my grades much, but since FIN720 is an elective, you're probably not going to get as many responses.

I thought the first FIN720 test was decently challenging, but a lot of it came from the awkward wording the teacher sometimes uses, especially on the true/false questions or where it wasn't 100% clear which currency was supposed to be compared against which (matters for percentage change calculations).

The structure and difficulty of the test was very similar to those from his FIN710 class last session. I got a 92.98% on this FIN720 test, which was lower than any of grades I got for FIN710. My general advice would be to be very comfortable with the practice problems in the textbook, consider investing time in setting up Excel sheets to quickly work the same kinds of problems quickly, and that he likes to ask you to solve for some part of the equation that he never had you solve for in the practice problems, so be ready for that, too. And for the weirdly-worded true/false questions...read that section of the textbook and just try to sort it out. Those are usually worth fewer points anyway. I had a lot of time left over on this test, but I nearly ran out of time on the third test of FIN710 (as did a lot of people on the internal discussion chat), so I'd strongly recommend that you pre-work the problems in Excel in case some particular test ends up being tight on time. It's also worth noting that the tests are not weighted evenly; that is, this test was worth 57/188 total available points, just over 30% of the course grade.

For everyone else talking about FIN701's first test,
I had 3 or 4 math problems (two sections each). I opted to just work them quickly and focus on getting answers for everything, then go back to show my work for potential partial credit. I didn't have time to show my work on everything, and submitted with 33 seconds left. I suspect I probably spent too much time on my writing, but it all worked out.