Can you pick up additional CLEP credits if it duplicates some already earned?

[hkhart]

I need 1 full year of Chemistry at TESC. They have given me credit for Che-121. If I took the CLEP chemistry test, would that fulfill the other portion being that TESC considers it CHE 111/112? CHE121/122 includes the lab, which I don't need.
Would that work in other cases as well, such as Anal. and Interpreting Lit CLEP. I'm currently taking LIT-291, but TESC will give credit for LIT-291/292 for passing the CLEP.

How does it work if CLEP is worth 6, but you already have 3 within that test?





General Chemistry SH (In Progress)
> Complete one full year of General Chemistry.
Semester Hours Completed: 5.00
Group 1 (Completed)
Src Course # Title S.H. Grd TESC # Notes
1.. CHE101 Intro to Chemistry I..... 5.00 B CHE-121 *CC *TE

Group 2 (Not Started)______________________________________________ 1 course

[dcan]

I could be wrong but it looks like if you take the CLEP you will actually have 9 credits: CHE111, CHE112, and CHE121. Assuming 121 doesn't duplicate one of the others, I have no idea on this.

So you would get the 1 year credit from the CLEP, and then you would have 3 spillover gen-ed elective credits, or 3 free elective credits, or 3 extra science credits, or whatever you need/can use it for.

Also I just noticed your course was 5SH not 3. Is it possible to somehow take a lab and get the 1SH credit to round out to 6 and get your year's credit that way? I don't know if that is even possible, and maybe better to just do the CLEP assuming you can get to 9SH that way, cheaper and faster if you can do it.

[ryoder]

AFAIK you will definitely get atleast 3 new credits from this test.
I would send an email to enrolled@tesc.edu and ask for them to put it on your plan. You will see where it shows up and that won't change when they get the actual transcript.

[hkhart]

AFAIK you will definitely get atleast 3 new credits from this test.
I would send an email to enrolled@tesc.edu and ask for them to put it on your plan. You will see where it shows up and that won't change when they get the actual transcript.

So I can tell them that I am planning on taking the CLEP and they will apply it prior to me taking it?

[ryoder]

Yes. If you look at your degree evaluation, you will see "SH To be planned". This number theoretically should be 0 if you plan all of your courses.
So just take email all the CLEPs and DSSTs, straighterline.com, aleks and TECEPs you intend to take to TESC and ask that they be added to your plan. The advisor will put them in the right slots. When it reaches 0 you are all planned out. Then when your transcripts arrive at TESC, those credits will change from "PL" status to something more permanent.

This service is supposed to be for enrolled students only I think, but I used it a couple of times anyway prior to actual enrollment.

[dcan]

Heck, I was planning my own as well, didn't know they offered this. Sounds like a good idea. That way you get the definite answer right from the horse's mouth, so to speak.

[hkhart]

Thanks for the advice! I just sent them an email with the request to plan the Chem CLEP exam - guess that makes me accountable now to start studying for it! I am currently enrolled at TESC (newly) so I am still learning how everything works as far as evaluations and such.

[hkhart]

I could be wrong but it looks like if you take the CLEP you will actually have 9 credits: CHE111, CHE112, and CHE121. Assuming 121 doesn't duplicate one of the others, I have no idea on this.

So you would get the 1 year credit from the CLEP, and then you would have 3 spillover gen-ed elective credits, or 3 free elective credits, or 3 extra science credits, or whatever you need/can use it for.

Also I just noticed your course was 5SH not 3. Is it possible to somehow take a lab and get the 1SH credit to round out to 6 and get your year's credit that way? I don't know if that is even possible, and maybe better to just do the CLEP assuming you can get to 9SH that way, cheaper and faster if you can do it.

The requirement has to do with the wording:
General Chemistry SH (Pending)
> Complete one full year of General Chemistry.
I actually have 17 credits in chemistry - 1 full year of Chem for applied science majors, along with 1 full year of Clinical Chemistry, however TESC wants 1 year of General Chemistry, plus 6 credits of Organic and/or Biochem. They have already placed the "planned" CLEP and you were correct. CHE-112 is fulfilling the rest of the year, CHE-111 falls into general ed, and the original CHE-121 stays with CHE-112. Actually, it may be better if that dropped to GE.

[ryoder]

You can ask them to move things around a bit also. As long as the test/class fits into multiple categories, you can move them around.