Mixture of CLEP/Traditional Classes

[Criticalthinker]

Just curious...For those of you who study for 2-3 weeks and then take the exam, are you also taking any other classes (classroom setting, online, etc.)? The reason I ask is, I am attending a 4-year traditional college that allows me to CLEP 30 credit hours of electives. I am trying to do this while also taking 1 traditional seated class, and 1 online class (both through the college). I am averaging about 5-6 hours of study time through IC a week. Does this sound sufficient?

Obviuosly without knowing my study habits and capacity, I don't expect anyone to give me an exact timeframe on preparedness, just trying to get an idea from those that take these exams every 3-4 weeks.

I am taking US History I and II, American Goverment, Business Law, and a few others once I get those out of the way. I only need 19 credits, the rest are coming from traditional means.

Thanks in advance...

Hi and welcome.

I am doing a combination of Independent Study courses, for which I submit assignments online on my own. I do not meet with cyberclasses. I also had 48 traditional credits from being in a classroom, when I started my general studies degree. I only recently started testing out. I wish that I had tried it earlier. I was sure it would be too complicated, and not really possible, and that it would be like working on finding a needle in a haystack!

With IC and the practice tests from Peterson's, I am doing well at this. I have been taking tests at fairly regular intervals , every few weeks, and recently every week to ten days. I study a couple of hours a day, and then take the practice tests when I feel ready.
It was scary the first time, I took a CLEP, but it is so much more gratifying that my other option, which was submitting a Self acquired competency portfolio for which the number of credits I would be granted, no matter how well it was written and documented was said to somewhat iffy by my advisor. It disheartened me for awhile.

With the CLEPS and DANTES, I am still getting credit for life and work experience in someways, but I know instantly, and I love that.

My school does not have a limit on how much test credit I can use, but does have other perimeters, such as so many hours at acquired through their classes, so ultimately it is limited by those requirements, just in terms of needing a certain number of credits from my school, as well as UL credits etc...

If I had known about testing, or at least been courageous enough to try it, I would have definitely started sooner.

Good luck
CT