I am currently working on my History Degree with TESC. I have seven more tests to go. Now that my twenty year goal is getting close I find myself starting to question, what's next?
I am career military and hope to retire in 2008. I have worked Electronic maintenance the whole time. My next big decision is where to go with my second career. I tried for years to get a Electronics degree and could never get stable with one school long enough. This was before all the online schools and even today the electronics offerings are slim to none.
I decided on a history degree because it was the fastest path to a Bachelor's degree and I do enjoy history. Now my question is what to do with it. I plan on getting my Master's degree in the next three years. However, with a family to support and a upcoming retirement, I still need a viable career oppurtunity. I am leaning towards a position with the government as a historian or teaching. But I am not sure teaching will pay enough of the bills.
Any input would be greatly appreciated. I find that this board has helped guide me with the tests, hopefully it will help here.

Does anyone know how long it takes to receive CLEP English Comp with Essay results? I took the exam this morning and fear I bombed the essay portion.

It would have been nice to choose from a selection of essay topics instead of being stuck with one.

Hello everyone,

If you have a chance, please consider setting up your signature. Here are a couple of things you might want to put in it:
a) your first name
b) how close you are to finishing your degree
c) how many credits total you tested out of
d) what degree, and from where

These are all just ideas, of course--post as little or as much as you want.

To update your signature, click the "User CP" in the upper left hand corner, and you will see an option to "Edit Signature"

For the dantes course on the environment and the race to save the planet?

Hello, I am new to the forum but have been using InstantCert for over a year. I obtained my nursing degree from regents College (now Excelsior) in 1990. Back then, no one had ever heard of getting a degree by testing and they thought it must be a scam. I obtained my degree while working full time as an LPN and having two babies. I could NEVER have taken the time to attend classes.
I have run into the same stuff as you all have. "So..you are BUYING your degree?" and "So your not getting a REAL degree?" I have started decribing the testing as "taking the final exam without taking the class" This seems to make people understand that you STILL have to grasp the material in order to pass the test. Actually, I feel better about obtaining my degree through testing as opposed to paying an online university $400 to $600 a credit hour. Then I WOULD feel like I was buying my degree. I have passed every test that I have taken so far...thanks to InstantCert. I feel like I have learned quite a bit in my studying for the tests. It seems to me the InstantCert process simply removes the fluff and teaches the core material. That is what I like about it. So far I have not used any other resource to study. I have passed 8 Cleps and 2 DSST's using InstantCert alone. Tomorrow I take the Labor relations ECE exam. Since there is no InstantCert material for it...I am basically going in "cold". I will keep you all posted on how I do. Thanks for all the support.

I haven't seen anyone mention this, but the fee for CLEP is increasing from $55 to $60 on July 1, 2006. We need to update our budget plans!

Has anyone taken either of these exams? If so, I would like to hear about your experience. I realize that TESC exams are way more expensive than most others, but it appears that the choices are extremely limited with regard to these 2 core business degree required courses. I guess what I'm trying to determine is whether or not the exams are realistically do-able, or is an Excelsior College course (or similar) a better option. Any insights? Thanks.

I just have to say, I am a huge proponent of using a tool provided by the creator of the exam. I have said on tons of posts, "take the ECE practice test..." "take the Collegeboard practice test..." "take the DSST practice test..."

Well, I'm trying to take the DSST practice test for Drug/Alcohol and it is totally hosed. I can get exactly two questions to come up, then it errors out - over and over and over. I'm spening way more time, logging off, closing the session, reopening it and logging back in than I could possibly dream of spending on actual questions. I'm on #8 and it's taken me a half hour (less the 5 minutes to fire off an email to their tech support).

This is sooooooo incredibly frustrating, it is too much to ask for it to work?

You know, we are all pretty tech savvy to be getting our degree in this fashion, so the tools to support this endeavor should work. Jeez!

So, from here on out, DSST gets no more free marketing from me.

Stumbled on to this today. Is anyone else familiar with Wikibooks? This is an open textbook format and it's free.

Here's the link. Check it out!

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/US_History:...ial_Period

This is a history link, but I found it looking for Sociology resources.

Just put your subject in the search box and voila!

Any thoughts from the group that have already attempted this program through Thomas Edison. I am contemplating what is a better move -- to start the PLA or focus strongly on studying and tetsing more CLEP/Dante. I have mixed bag of of 24 credits so far from Dante, and College.