My DSST Options

[nleamons]

I have been looking into my options as a civilian to take DSST's, which I noticed have been available to civilians for sometime, but some places did not know that. I will be taking the Principles of Statistics, Technical Writing, MIS, and Astronomy( for my second science requirment). I took a lot of community college before I started at Thomas Edison State College. My problem is that there only two testing centers within a fair distance of my location. One of which only does paper tests. I am not sure about the other, yet. From my research, I am thinking that MIS is still offered as a paper test, is that correct? or are the others also offered as a paper-test? Are the paper-tests still untimed? I will continue to search this forum as it has been useful for collecting some resources. This is the link that I ran across.

DANTES SUBJECT STANDARDIZED TESTS (DSSTs)

"In God We Trust"

[burbuja0512]

I have been looking into my options as a civilian to take DSST's, which I noticed have been available to civilians for sometime, but some places did not know that. I will be taking the Principles of Statistics, Technical Writing, MIS, and Astronomy( for my second science requirment). I took a lot of community college before I started at Thomas Edison State College. My problem is that there only two testing centers within a fair distance of my location. One of which only does paper tests. I am not sure about the other, yet. From my research, I am thinking that MIS is still offered as a paper test, is that correct? or are the others also offered as a paper-test? Are the paper-tests still untimed? I will continue to search this forum as it has been useful for collecting some resources. This is the link that I ran across.

DANTES SUBJECT STANDARDIZED TESTS (DSSTs)



"In God We Trust"

Hi and welcome!

Sorry you haven't had any responses yet. I have been on this forum for almost a year and have not seen anyone post about paper tests more than once or twice... and I may have been reading old posts.

I am not sure that anyone will respond... I'll be very curious to see if there are paper test takers here.

Even if you have to take a timed test, most of the tests are pretty reasonable in their timing. MIS isn't too difficult with enough study and I can imagine that most people don't run into a lot of trouble finishing on time. In fact, I'm not sure that any tests you've listed will make you worry about the time, but we're all different and everyone has a different pace, so I wouldn't want to guarantee anything.

[NAP]

.....One of which only does paper tests. I am not sure about the other, yet. From my research, I am thinking that MIS is still offered as a paper test, is that correct? or are the others also offered as a paper-test? Are the paper-tests still untimed? .....DANTES SUBJECT STANDARDIZED TESTS (DSSTs)

"In God We Trust"

Welcome to the forum!

It has been a year since I took a DSST exam, so it is possible that policies have changed. When I took the paper-based tests, it was my understanding that I could take any of them (30+) as long as I gave the test center enough time to order it from Prometric.

I think the information you found is about a DANTES (military) policy for "paper-reduction" and not a DSST/Prometric (testing) policy. (So it should not effect civilian test centers.) I use the words interchangeably, but apparently they are different.

My test center was going to try to change to computer-based exams, but I do not know if that has happened yet. I guess the time-limit will change, too. Be sure to check with the second test center; they may have computer-based tests already.

Does anyone have any current information to share on these issues?

[P00057870]

My testing center offers DSST only in the computerized format. This is good as you get your results right now. Just call and confirm which form is offered by your testing center(s).

[nleamons]

I have narrowed my testing options to two places as the one of the testing centers is only available to military and select individuals. I have to choose between two places, Dallas-computer based versus Abilene-paper tests. Though a computer test would be better receiving the results of the test, but on the other hand, Abilene would probably be better traffic-wise. I will more than likely take the paper-based test as it also offers other choices that will be beneficial. It is important that I know, whether or not any of the DSST tests are still offered in paper format? I do know that Technical Writing still is. I am not sure on Statistics, Astronomy, and MIS.

Thank you,

[nleamons]

I found an answer to my question after searching the forums. All the DSST tests that I will take are available in paper format.

http://www.dantes.doded.mil/dantes_web/l..._exams.pdf