EASIEST CLEP/DSST for elective credit...

[jessikalauren]

Sorry if this is lazy of me but I'm 30, working full-time and trying to get a degree as quickly as I can.

(I'm actually getting two bachelor's degrees, BA-Management and BS-Business.)

I have roughly 24 elective credits still needed. My school accepts all CLEP & DSST exams so which ones would you say were the easiest to take, that I could hopefully blow through this summer?

Thank in advance!

Jessika

[Ideas]

For CLEP, Analyzing & Interpreting Literature is very easy for some people. I am going to take it with only 3 hours of studying.

Intro Psychology and Intro Sociology are easy for most people.

Otherwise, what are you good at? Math? History?

[Ideas]

Spanish, French, or German if you had at least a year of any of them

The health DSST is really easy. Also the computing one asks questions like what is a printer? LOL.

Think about what you actually need. History?

You aren't going to TESU?

[jessikalauren]

Spanish, French, or German if you had at least a year of any of them

The health DSST is really easy. Also the computing one asks questions like what is a printer? LOL.

Think about what you actually need. History?

You aren't going to TESU?

I'm not going to TESU, I discovered the world of CLEP & DSST after I started at Golden Gate University. It's super expensive but I really like it so I'm going to stick with it and take as many CLEP/DSST exams as I can.

I have other requirements to be covered by exams - history, algebra, accounting, finance, etc. Just trying to think of other *easy* ones to take to knock out the elective credits.

Oh and I'm already planning on taking Spanish - 9 credits plus now I'm bilingual?? Sign me up!

[jessikalauren]

For CLEP, Analyzing & Interpreting Literature is very easy for some people. I am going to take it with only 3 hours of studying.

Intro Psychology and Intro Sociology are easy for most people.

Otherwise, what are you good at? Math? History?

Thanks! I took A&T Literature already, for my literature requirement.

I am NOT good at history, and I have to take most math & business exams already for my major requirements. I was thinking Here's to your Health and Substance Abuse had relevant information I could actually use. Can you think of others that seemed so "common sense" you could have taken with little studying?

[sarg123]

Intro to Management and Intro to Marketing are both considered the two easiest cleps.

Also, College Composition, if you're fairly decent in English. I also liked Social Science and History. It's easy if you have taken some history and psych classes before. If you have a lot of knowledge of Arts, books, or the theater, Humanities may be fairly easy, as well.

Some of these cleps are worth 6 credits each, so check your college to see what their equivalencies are.

[sarg123]

Thanks! I took A&T Literature already, for my literature requirement.

I am NOT good at history, and I have to take most math & business exams already for my major requirements. I was thinking Here's to your Health and Substance Abuse had relevant information I could actually use. Can you think of others that seemed so "common sense" you could have taken with little studying?

I personally thought Human Growth and Development was mostly common sense, but then again, I do have small children so I'm more familiar with the basics. If you have taken Psychology, then I thought Educational Psychology would be really easy to pick up, especially if you have ever been around small children.

[dfrecore]

Here's a link that may help - they rank the exams by level of difficulty:

Clep Difficulty List - Free-Clep-Prep.com

DSST Difficulty List - Free-Clep-Prep.com

I took Management and Marketing CLEP's, and Computers and Personal Finance DSST's. I passed them all without studying, and thought they were fairly easy, but then again, I did have some background (either work experience or courses I'd taken) so that influenced how I did.

I took classes at GGU myself, and really enjoyed it - they are a very good school. BUT, they are extremely expensive ($660/cr - YIKES!). You might want to consider taking a few courses from them, but ultimately taking the rest of your courses inexpensively and transferring to TESU to graduate. It would save you MANY thousands of dollars.

Good luck.