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RE: Excelsior is retiring UExcel exams! This month! - ss20ts - 06-08-2022
Boy you really have to dig on their website to find this info!
https://www.excelsior.edu/exams/how-uexcel-exams-work/
I wonder how much of an impact working with Pearson had on these exams. Pearson isn't available everywhere. And quite frankly they suck. THey're used by many companies and I dread any certification that uses them. The testing centers in Excelsiors home state were closed for many months at one point so that probably had a huge impact on the exams. I also wonder with Excelsior becoming a university - finally - if that contributed to ending the exams. Will be interesting to see what changes are coming to their degrees.
RE: Excelsior is retiring UExcel exams! This month! - jsd - 06-08-2022
(06-08-2022, 03:11 PM)ss20ts Wrote: I also wonder with Excelsior becoming a university - finally - if that contributed to ending the exams.
Interesting thought, and it's possible that this upcoming change has shuffled their priorities a bit. But When Thomas Edison became a university, they thankfully kept their TECEP exams. But speaking of TECEP, the Big 3 often like to play catch-up with each other... Hopefully TESU isn't getting any ideas about TECEPs going away.
Better yet, perhaps this would be a good excuse to EXPAND their TECEP offerings.
RE: Excelsior is retiring UExcel exams! This month! - jkoby - 06-08-2022
I wonder how much of the UExcel candidates were nursing students, and since the nursing exams don't count towards EC's nursing programs anymore, most of their candidates vanished?
RE: Excelsior is retiring UExcel exams! This month! - jkoby - 06-08-2022
(06-08-2022, 02:55 PM)sanantone Wrote: Wow! I've long been done with undergraduate education, but I think I will register for the physics exam since there are no CBE options other than tests made available to high school students.
I had pretty good results with the Physics 1 and Physics 2 at Study.com transferring into TESU.
RE: Excelsior is retiring UExcel exams! This month! - jsd - 06-08-2022
Those are technically courses, which I think she is avoiding. The UExcel would be 100% exam based.
RE: Excelsior is retiring UExcel exams! This month! - Library2HospitalChaplain - 06-09-2022
I just took the UExcel for Social Psychology in January 2021. I considered a few more, but the Pearson remote ID confirmation and setup was a bigger hassle than I've ever had with ProctorU over EVERY exam.
Do I still want to take Bioethics, Gerontology, and Juvenile Delinquency for myself? If so, then I'm going masked to a Pearson testing center. If anyone has any other alt credit listings for those besides Study.com that I was using to prepare, I would be grateful.
My Dual Enrollment student was looking at the Weather and Climate UExcel, same provisions only in person. Also attempting to get a Private Pilot License, and understands that basic meteorology is definitely a good subject to know. Again, the only other alt source I know is Study.com's Meteorology.
RE: Excelsior is retiring UExcel exams! This month! - sanantone - 06-09-2022
(06-08-2022, 06:03 PM)jkoby Wrote:(06-08-2022, 02:55 PM)sanantone Wrote: Wow! I've long been done with undergraduate education, but I think I will register for the physics exam since there are no CBE options other than tests made available to high school students.
I had pretty good results with the Physics 1 and Physics 2 at Study.com transferring into TESU.
I prefer credit-by-exam, and Study.com is my least favorite ACE/NCCRS option. Plus, Uexcels have wider acceptance.
RE: Excelsior is retiring UExcel exams! This month! - jsh1138 - 06-13-2022
that's a shame
RE: Excelsior is retiring UExcel exams! This month! - Rosy Maven - 06-16-2022
(06-09-2022, 10:57 AM)Library2HospitalChaplain Wrote: I just took the UExcel for Social Psychology in January 2021. I considered a few more, but the Pearson remote ID confirmation and setup was a bigger hassle than I've ever had with ProctorU over EVERY exam.
Do I still want to take Bioethics, Gerontology, and Juvenile Delinquency for myself? If so, then I'm going masked to a Pearson testing center. If anyone has any other alt credit listings for those besides Study.com that I was using to prepare, I would be grateful.
My Dual Enrollment student was looking at the Weather and Climate UExcel, same provisions only in person. Also attempting to get a Private Pilot License, and understands that basic meteorology is definitely a good subject to know. Again, the only other alt source I know is Study.com's Meteorology.
TECEP has a Meteorology exam.
www2.tesu.edu/tecep.php?CourseCode=EAS-131
RE: Excelsior is retiring UExcel exams! This month! - Library2HospitalChaplain - 06-16-2022
(06-16-2022, 07:36 AM)Rosy Maven Wrote:Thanks, Rosy! I forgot about that one, hoping for ones that could be taken at the college testing center. :-)(06-09-2022, 10:57 AM)Library2HospitalChaplain Wrote: I just took the UExcel for Social Psychology in January 2021. I considered a few more, but the Pearson remote ID confirmation and setup was a bigger hassle than I've ever had with ProctorU over EVERY exam.
Do I still want to take Bioethics, Gerontology, and Juvenile Delinquency for myself? If so, then I'm going masked to a Pearson testing center. If anyone has any other alt credit listings for those besides Study.com that I was using to prepare, I would be grateful.
My Dual Enrollment student was looking at the Weather and Climate UExcel, same provisions only in person. Also attempting to get a Private Pilot License, and understands that basic meteorology is definitely a good subject to know. Again, the only other alt source I know is Study.com's Meteorology.
TECEP has a Meteorology exam.
www2.tesu.edu/tecep.php?CourseCode=EAS-131