Seeking advice on GRE Psych vs. ECE exams

[malcs]

Hmm...Great idea! Thanks, Malcs. That would take the "80% or better" pressure off. I was also concerned about that Research Methods credit so I asked an advisor. This was his response...

Hello Alicia:

If you were to take and complete the GRE Examination for Psychology you would thus see duplication in approxiamtly 9.00 semester hours of credit based on your current course credit that is on file. The following courses/examinations would thus be duplicative:

CLEP: Intro to Psychology (3 credits)
CLEP: Social Science and History (6 credits)

I hope this has been helpful Alicia!

Jason R. Burns, M.S.

No mention of the Research Methods.

Sounds like a good plan. You may want to do your own checking on that Research Methods exam duplication. I got burned by EC on my very old GRE in computer science. I had let my EC enrollment lapse by about five years, and when they redid my evaluation they claimed that I had 6 credits of overlap. Get it in writing, like you did, then check the exact credit plan that EC gives you for the GRE.

One other point on the EC exams. You need the correct textbook. Their tests match the textbook author's viewpoint exactly. You will be wasting your time if you use the incorrect book. What I do is look on half.com for an older edition of the recommended textbook. I can usually get one for less than $20. Go for a real beater of a book.

Read the chapter intros, the chapter summaries, and do all of the quiz questions in the book and on the book's support site. You will find many items on the tests that do not Google well, since they reflect the author's viewpoint. I spent hours researching things before I realized this. The matching book's index will often have the exact phrase that you are looking for.





Best of luck.

-Malcolm