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02-03-2015, 12:45 PM
Has anyone heard of a school only awarding 3 credits for the exams, when College Board recommends 6?
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02-03-2015, 12:48 PM
zmama32 Wrote:Has anyone heard of a school only awarding 3 credits for the exams, when College Board recommends 6?

This happens all the time. For the 6-credit science CLEPs, I've seen schools award 3, 4, 6, and 8 credits.
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02-03-2015, 02:12 PM
Yeah, I second what Sanantone said. You'll also sometimes find schools that want higher scores. I just talked with a mom who told me her teen needed 60 as the minimum passing score any any/all CLEP exams, and even then, the best you could hope for was 3 credits. It's really up to the school to dictate, then it's up to you to decide if that's where you want to enroll.
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02-03-2015, 03:26 PM
Well, my advisor told me that the passing score was 50, but the biology and natural sciences clep are 3 credits each.

So I simply asked why SPS only awards 3 credits when College Board recommends 6. She emailed me back right away and said she spoke with the Associate Director and the Biology CLEP was approved for 6 credits, but Natural Sciences will remain 3. Which is great, since I am planning on taking Bio and then Natural Sciences.

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02-03-2015, 08:17 PM
Follow-up question: Does a particular school's policy vary at all in these assessments? Or is the credit valuation given to one student likely going to be the same as the valuation given to the next student?

Anyone have any history transferring the CLEP Natural Sciences test to TESC? 6 credits, or only 3?
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02-03-2015, 10:01 PM
macromicro007 Wrote:Follow-up question: Does a particular school's policy vary at all in these assessments? Or is the credit valuation given to one student likely going to be the same as the valuation given to the next student?

Anyone have any history transferring the CLEP Natural Sciences test to TESC? 6 credits, or only 3?

It will be the same for all students at your current school.

If you apply to any other school (TESC or anywhere) there will be a new evaluation done by that school of your CLEP transcript, they won't care what your current school gave you for credit, that would be considered a third party (but the classes you took at that school WOULD be evaluated). In the case of TESC, you would be awarded 6 for bio and 6 for natural sciences.
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