Reviews of ENGLISH COMP I AND II TECEP

[Toychest26]

anyone have any reviews of these teceps? study guides?

[bjcheung77]

anyone have any reviews of these teceps? study guides?

I have not done these, but generally speaking, they are harder than the CLEP and DSST type of exams. If you use whatever you have as study, or other materials for review, it shouldn't really matter to get a passing grade. Why not just CLEP or DSST it?

[Nixi]

The English Comp II TECEP seems easy based on passit1's post here:
http://www.degreeforum.net/excelsior-tho...post185940

[dfrecore]

I took the TECEP as well, I thought it was fairly easy - I got a 79% without spending a single second studying for it.

[l8989v]

Thanks for this topic and the replies! I've been trying to finish SL English Composition I for two months now and it's been dragging. Thank god, only two writing assignments left to go!

Good luck!

[dfrecore]

I have not done these, but generally speaking, they are harder than the CLEP and DSST type of exams. If you use whatever you have as study, or other materials for review, it shouldn't really matter to get a passing grade. Why not just CLEP or DSST it?

I had 5 reasons to take the TECEP rather than the CLEP:
1) I already had taken English Comp I at a B&M, so I didn't really want to duplicate credits
2) My testing centers are fairly far (almost an hour each way)
3) I needed the TECEP for residency purposes
4) I am a night owl, and like to test when it's quiet after my family has gone to bed
5) The testing centers offered inconvenient times to test (middle of the day, when I'm homeschooling my kids)

Not everyone wants to CLEP/DSST, not everyone is good at test-taking (so might want to go SL instead). I'm sure others have various reasons as well. It's not the answer for everyone, even if it seems like it might be the "easiest" way to do it.

[Toychest26]

How long before you receive a grade for the tecep for the ENglish comps?

[bjcheung77]

How long before you receive a grade for the tecep for the ENglish comps?

TECEPS don't have letter grades, it's a pass/fail or credit/no credit. If you are doing testing with ProctorU, it's immediately showing on the screen when you finish (unofficial results), it'll be posted to your account in a week (OSS or MyEdison). If you are doing so by pen/paper, it's two weeks timeline for a result.

[jsd]

Don't the English TECEPs have essays? Grades for those won't show immediately. It takes a few weeks to be graded.

[bjcheung77]

I had 5 reasons to take the TECEP rather than the CLEP:
1) I already had taken English Comp I at a B&M, so I didn't really want to duplicate credits
2) My testing centers are fairly far (almost an hour each way)
3) I needed the TECEP for residency purposes
4) I am a night owl, and like to test when it's quiet after my family has gone to bed
5) The testing centers offered inconvenient times to test (middle of the day, when I'm homeschooling my kids)

Not everyone wants to CLEP/DSST, not everyone is good at test-taking (so might want to go SL instead). I'm sure others have various reasons as well. It's not the answer for everyone, even if it seems like it might be the "easiest" way to do it.

+1, I agree.... And the main reason, I chose to do two TECEPS instead of any CLEP/DSST is because I can do that online and at home, or somewhere I've got a net connection. Cuz I live 3 hours total back/forth from a test location.