Hi Everyone,

I need a science to fulfill three credits. I am going to take Biology eventually, but found out last night after I spoke to my academic advisor that I cannot get another 6 credits for Natural Science since there is too much overlap with Biology, so I will only be able to glean 3 credits from NS. So number 1: I'm not sure I should go ahead and even bother with NS after Bio. Need advice on that. Perhaps I should just look to another (easier) exam?

Number two: I will then need 3 more credits outside of taking Bio and NS (if I decide to take NS). I need advice on what to take. I can take American Government, US Histories, World Civilizations, and things of that nature. Can someone advise on what would be the best exam to take? CLEPs are my only option, as my local community college does not offer DSST.

My gut feeling is to take American Government, then Bio, then NS.

Any thoughts?

Thanks a bunch in advance!

Does anybody have a degree plan from Thomas Edison for Computer Science? I am thinking about switching to that degree so I would like to see what that would entail exactly. I have a basic idea.

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Those who have succesfully taken FEMA courses, is it actually possible to take the final exams of each course online, or do you truly have to print them out & snail-mail them??

I am so glad that I have gotten the U S History II CLEP out the way. I passed it with a 52.

The version that I took had alot of questions about civil rights, not just African Americans but immigrants also. It also had alot of questions abut authors and their works. I didn't have but one question about the Acts that were implemented. I found the test to be alittle harder than the Peterson tests.

I just finished the HTYH exam, (my first DSST), and it was not what I expected. Some IC material was covered on the exam, but there were other questions on weight, calorie intake, medical conditions and such that I was not aware of. I studied almost exclusively in the IC, with some occasional help from Wikipedia.

In retrospect, I'd say approximately 1/3 was IC, and the rest was a mix of common sense questions and stuff I had to guess on.

I have no idea how I did, and frankly find myself a bit concerned that I didn't pass. I think I relied on this site way to much. I have only two more classes to go and I'm done - so passing this class will go a long way towards my completion.

I would suggest reading a basic college health book as support before taking this test.

Calboy

I'm getting ready to take the Principles of Accounting CLEP next Thursday. If I had more time I'd postpone. Needless to say, I am finding the journey less than enjoyable. For those that have taken the test, I'm curious as to how well the Peterson practice exams track to the real thing. I scored a 50 on my first practice test and I missed at least 4 questions by reading them too fast and jumping to a conclusion. I will have to watch for that. If you are scoring 55 and above on Peterson, can you have a reasonable expectation of actually passing the CLEP exam?

Thanks in advance for your comments.

--Joel

well anyways i finally take western civ 2 on thursday. I so worried that i wont pass. Just pray that i pass with a 70 or higher. thats what my mom and dad are looking for even though i really only need a 50 to pass. thank you

I just took this one last night & passed with a 52. All things considered, I'll take that grade! Kiwi says that's a 'B'. My brain was mush last night & I could hardly remember any formulas at all. I did have my BA-II Plus calculator...which is a God-send. For those who have to take this exam....you need to get this calculator & learn the statistics functions.

Let's see if I can remember details. This truly was the hardest one I took. I ran out of time, so there was 1 or 2 questions I didn't get answered. There were a good deal of questions regarding correlation, line regression. Definitely more than I was expecting. There were quite a few probability questions, which I was thankful for.

One formula that truly saved me, was more of an algebra formula instead of statistics. Like I said, there were quite a few questions regarding line regression, correlation, etc. Well, if you can remember that the slope of a line formua is: y= mx+b , it will serve you very well.

There was ALOT of questions regarding Normal Distribution...so....you need to know all about Z-scores...with AND without knowing the Population SD.

You'll definitely need to understand levels of significance. Know it well, I might add. I seemed to have conveniently forgotten alot of the formulas and truly had to take a 'best guess' on some of them. It was frustrating. Anyway, that's about all I can say about this exam.

I thank God that I am done with this one. One more math exam to go......College Algebra. I shall slay that beast.

I'd also like to thank Snazz for his assistance. His advice really helped me out quite a bit on this one. THANKS SNAZZ!!

Hello all,

I have a question regarding if the people at Excelsior really try to help?
Here is my story. I am currently a student at Regis University and wanted to transfer to Excelsior, (BSGB), because, like many others, I wish to save both time and money and use the money that I saved for a graduate school. So, based on many recommendations I decided to try and transfer. This I thought would be an easy task; so far I am very wrong.
The first thing I did was call and speak to someone in admissions and they sent me to a counselor who told me that all I had to have was an application, an application fee and my sealed transcripts from Regis and she would send me the application, she did. I also explained to the counselor that the transcripts would read 48 credits by examination, 9 by classes and would list what cleps and dantes that I have taken, but I would like to be enrolled before September before the changes that were coming in the Business degree program, (by the way thanks JoAnne), and she said its not a problem. The counselor advised me to send in the transcripts with the app to expedite things and it would be alright. (So far ok). After I received the application I filled it out and called again and spoke to a different advisor to make sure that what the first counselor said was true and she agreed that all I needed to do was what the first counselor said to do. About a week went by and I took a look at their web site (I am registered) and look through the transcript received part and find out they are waiting for dantes transcripts. I called and first spoke to someone in records who verified what I saw on the web site. When I asked the lady in records what they were looking for she said that she did not know and transferred me to a counselor who also could not answer my question. The counselor then sent me to admissions and finally the person there told me that I would have to have original transcripts from cleps and dantes (that are on my Regis transcript) sent in to Excelsior. So I happen to ask if they ordered the clep/dantes transcripts and she told me that it was up to the student to do that. I also tried to explain what the other counselors had told me and she could only refer me to a supervisor’s voice mail. My frustration is that the above was not explained properly in the beginning by two counselors and Excelsior did not communicate to me that I needed to get my original clep/dantes transcripts which I happen to find by accident.
I know this seems like a long rant but my first question is if the above is what I can expect if I enroll at Excelsior.

I am also not a person to just whine about something without trying to think of a solution; so my second question is (if anyone can answer it) would I be able to enroll with just the 9 or so credits that they have, then once enrolled can I send the other 48 clep/dantes transcripts.

Any help with both questions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

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