Taking Clep Tests on Active Duty?

[Excelmywayup]

I will be active duty infantry after getting out of Army OSUT this september. I will be enrolled with Excelsior College and am going to be taking alot of cleps since they are free the first time around, and I would like to complete my degree quickly.

How exactly will I be able to clep test while in the army? Do I do these test on the weekend at the testing center? Are they only open during the week? Do i then have to get permission from my platoon sergeant?

Thank you for your answers. They are appreciated. I'm just trying to prepare the best I can.

-Alex

[CLEP101]

I will be active duty infantry after getting out of Army OSUT this september. I will be enrolled with Excelsior College and am going to be taking alot of cleps since they are free the first time around, and I would like to complete my degree quickly.

How exactly will I be able to clep test while in the army? Do I do these test on the weekend at the testing center? Are they only open during the week? Do i then have to get permission from my platoon sergeant?

Thank you for your answers. They are appreciated. I'm just trying to prepare the best I can.

-Alex

When you get to your duty station, you'll will inprocess your base and one of those places will be the Education Center. Testing is usually done during the week and during duty hours. So yes, you will have to get permission, make an appointment in most places and take your exam. Normally you will get time to take courses and exams, unless you are out for training in the field or something like that. Even when you are deployed overseas, there are testing centers over here as well.

[Excelmywayup]

Thanks sarge. It's nice to have an E-8 on this forum. What MOS are you? I'll be leaving OSUT as an E-3. Are the platoon sergeants lenient in letting soldiers take tests that they have made appointments for, assuming it just a regular training day, and not in the field like you had mentioned?

Also I see you went to excelsior. Did you take any classes there? How were they?

This is my degree plan: The tests that have taken class next to them mean I have taken the class and received credit.
Bachelor of Science in Business, Concentration: General Business from Excelsior College
Arts and Science – 60 Needed
CLEP History of the United States I 3 Instant Cert
CLEP History of the United States II 3 Instant Cert
CLEP College Composition 3 Taken Class
CLEP Humanities 6 Instant Cert
CLEP Biology 6 Instant Cert
CLEP College Mathematics 6 Instant Cert
CLEP Introductory Psychology 3 SpeedyPrep
CLEP American Government 3 Instant Cert
CLEP Social Sciences and History 6 Book
CLEP Microeconomics 3 Instant Cert
CLEP Macroeconomics 3 Taken Class
CLEP Introductory Sociology 3 Instant Cert
CLEP American Literature 6 SpeedyPrep
CLEP College Algebra 3 Taken Class
DSST Principles of Statistics 3 Instant Cert or MAT-201 Statistics 3 Excelsior College

Career Component – 45 Needed (12 Upper)
CLEP Financial Accounting 3 Taken Class
CLEP Intro to Business Law 3 Taken Class
CLEP Information Systems 3 Instant Cert
CLEP Principles of Management 3 Instant Cert
CLEP Principles of Marketing 3 Instant Cert
DSST Principles of Finance 3 Instant Cert or BUS-350 Principles of Finance 3 Excelsior College
DSST Business Ethics Instant Cert or 3 BUS-323 Business Ethics 3 Excelsior College
BUS-553 Organizational Behavior 3 Excelsior College
ACC-212 Managerial Accounting 3 Excelsior College
BUS-520 Operations Management 3 Excelsior College
BUS-495 Business Strategy 3 Excelsior College
BUS-300 Introduction to Entrepreneurship 3 Excelsior College
BUS-312 Managing Human Resources 3 Excelsior College
BUS-310 Entrepreneurial Marketing 3 Excelsior College
DSST Management Information Systems 3 Instant Cert or BUS-452 Business Leadership 3 Excelsior College

Electives – 15 Needed ( Electives will most likely be covered by AARTS )
Information Literacy 1
CLEP Precalculus 3 Book
CLEP Natural Sciences 6 SpeedyPrep
CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 6 SpeedyPrep

Thank you very much sarge.
-Alex

[CLEP101]

Thank you very much sarge.

Alex,
If you want a rude awakening when you go to infantry training and OSUT, go ahead and call your drill instructor "Sarge", and see what happens. No one in their right mind (in the military) would call me Sarge, unless they outrank me, even then it's still a form of disrespect.
But anyways, you'll learn all about it when you call your Drill "Sergeant" Sarge.
I'll shoot you a PM a little later with other info and answer your questions.
clep101

[Excelmywayup]

Is the correct address Sergeant or Master Sergeant?

Sorry

[SRT12]

When you get to your unit after basic talk to your TEAM LEADER and see what day you can go to the ed center. Im sure they will let you go at least once a week, you are going to have to do alot of training when you get to your real unit.

[CLEP101]

Is the correct address Sergeant or Master Sergeant?

Sorry

Everyone calls me Master Sergeant, but technically you can still call me Sergeant according to military courtesies and customs for the Army. Unless I wear a diamond in the middle of my chevrons, then the proper address would be First Sergeant.

[CLEP101]

Electives – 15 Needed ( Electives will most likely be covered by AARTS )

I can tell you right now that you better not depend on your AARTS to cover your 15 electives. You will not come out of OSUT with that many credits. You'll get 2 maybe 3 credits tops for infantry training. You wont start filling up the AARTS until you start going to the leadership schools, combat lifesaver courses, etc. So have another plan for the electives. I tell you from my experience of my old Airborne Infantry days.

[Excelmywayup]

thanks master sergeant.
apologies again.

[CLEP101]

thanks master sergeant.
apologies again.

no need to apologize, I was just messing with you, in a serious kinda way.