Urgent! A question on English Composition test

[greatwall]

Hi,

My daughter is planning to take CLEP exam "Freshman College Composition" with Essay tomorrow. The study guide indicates that she needs to select a "receiving institution" for the faculty to score the essays. But at this point she hasn't enrolled TESC yet, does that mean she shouldn't take this test until she enrolls TESC? Or is there any way for her to take the test now?

BTW she took English Composition without Essay last week, but later realized TESC requires Essay, so she is trying to take Freshman College Composition with Essay as a makeup.

Thanks for your help in advance!

Matthew W

[cookderosa]

Hi,

My daughter is planning to take CLEP exam "Freshman College Composition" with Essay tomorrow. The study guide indicates that she needs to select a "receiving institution" for the faculty to score the essays. But at this point she hasn't enrolled TESC yet, does that mean she shouldn't take this test until she enrolls TESC? Or is there any way for her to take the test now?

BTW she took English Composition without Essay last week, but later realized TESC requires Essay, so she is trying to take Freshman College Composition with Essay as a makeup.

Thanks for your help in advance!

Matthew W

Matthew,
She has 2 choices, either one works.
a) Select TESC anyway. If she has applied, they have a file for her. If not, they will start one. In 6 months, if she hasn't enrolled it is inactive.
b) Don't select a school. You can leave this blank, it's no big deal because you don't have to be in school to take the exams. Eventually, when she is ready to go to college, she can pay CLEP $20 and they will forward a transcript to the college with all of her exam scores on it. (not $20 per test, $20 for the whole thing)
As you can see, there is little difference and so he choice is yours.

[greatwall]

Thanks Jennifer.
Here is our confusion -- if we take Option b), who would grade her essay?

Thanks.

[HawkGuy]

Have you looked into taking English Composition with Essay? The CLEP site says they are 2 different versions, so I'm thinking you could just take the version with Essay. That way, CLEP would grade the essay, and you wouldn't have to worry about it. Maybe it would work, maybe not, but it's worth a try.

[greatwall]

She actually took English Composition last week without Essay. An oversight! After talking to TESC, it seems the best thing to do is to retake it with Essay. The only downside is that she has to wait another 6 months.

Thanks for the suggestion.