Excelsior is retiring UExcel exams! This month!

[ss20ts]

Boy you really have to dig on their website to find this info!

https://www.excelsior.edu/exams/how-uexcel-exams-work/

I wonder how much of an impact working with Pearson had on these exams. Pearson isn't available everywhere. And quite frankly they suck. THey're used by many companies and I dread any certification that uses them. The testing centers in Excelsiors home state were closed for many months at one point so that probably had a huge impact on the exams. I also wonder with Excelsior becoming a university - finally - if that contributed to ending the exams. Will be interesting to see what changes are coming to their degrees.

[jsd]

I also wonder with Excelsior becoming a university - finally - if that contributed to ending the exams.

Interesting thought, and it's possible that this upcoming change has shuffled their priorities a bit. But When Thomas Edison became a university, they thankfully kept their TECEP exams. But speaking of TECEP, the Big 3 often like to play catch-up with each other... Hopefully TESU isn't getting any ideas about TECEPs going away.

Better yet, perhaps this would be a good excuse to EXPAND their TECEP offerings.

[jkoby]

I wonder how much of the UExcel candidates were nursing students, and since the nursing exams don't count towards EC's nursing programs anymore, most of their candidates vanished?

[jkoby]

Wow! I've long been done with undergraduate education, but I think I will register for the physics exam since there are no CBE options other than tests made available to high school students.

I had pretty good results with the Physics 1 and Physics 2 at Study.com transferring into TESU.

[jsd]

Those are technically courses, which I think she is avoiding. The UExcel would be 100% exam based.

[Library2HospitalChaplain]

I just took the UExcel for Social Psychology in January 2021. I considered a few more, but the Pearson remote ID confirmation and setup was a bigger hassle than I've ever had with ProctorU over EVERY exam. 

Do I still want to take Bioethics, Gerontology, and Juvenile Delinquency for myself? If so, then I'm going masked to a Pearson testing center. If anyone has any other alt credit listings for those besides Study.com that I was using to prepare, I would be grateful.

My Dual Enrollment student was looking at the Weather and Climate UExcel, same provisions only in person. Also attempting to get a Private Pilot License, and understands that basic meteorology is definitely a good subject to know. Again, the only other alt source I know is Study.com's Meteorology.

[sanantone]

Wow! I've long been done with undergraduate education, but I think I will register for the physics exam since there are no CBE options other than tests made available to high school students.

I had pretty good results with the Physics 1 and Physics 2 at Study.com transferring into TESU.

 
I prefer credit-by-exam, and Study.com is my least favorite ACE/NCCRS option. Plus, Uexcels have wider acceptance.

[jsh1138]

that's a shame

[Rosy Maven]

I just took the UExcel for Social Psychology in January 2021. I considered a few more, but the Pearson remote ID confirmation and setup was a bigger hassle than I've ever had with ProctorU over EVERY exam. 

Do I still want to take Bioethics, Gerontology, and Juvenile Delinquency for myself? If so, then I'm going masked to a Pearson testing center. If anyone has any other alt credit listings for those besides Study.com that I was using to prepare, I would be grateful.

My Dual Enrollment student was looking at the Weather and Climate UExcel, same provisions only in person. Also attempting to get a Private Pilot License, and understands that basic meteorology is definitely a good subject to know. Again, the only other alt source I know is Study.com's Meteorology.

TECEP has a Meteorology exam.

www2.tesu.edu/tecep.php?CourseCode=EAS-131

[Library2HospitalChaplain]

I just took the UExcel for Social Psychology in January 2021. I considered a few more, but the Pearson remote ID confirmation and setup was a bigger hassle than I've ever had with ProctorU over EVERY exam. 

Do I still want to take Bioethics, Gerontology, and Juvenile Delinquency for myself? If so, then I'm going masked to a Pearson testing center. If anyone has any other alt credit listings for those besides Study.com that I was using to prepare, I would be grateful.

My Dual Enrollment student was looking at the Weather and Climate UExcel, same provisions only in person. Also attempting to get a Private Pilot License, and understands that basic meteorology is definitely a good subject to know. Again, the only other alt source I know is Study.com's Meteorology.

TECEP has a Meteorology exam.

www2.tesu.edu/tecep.php?CourseCode=EAS-131

Thanks, Rosy! I forgot about that one, hoping for ones that could be taken at the college testing center. :-)