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Clep & Dante
#1
What is the main difference between CLEP and DANTE, if any?
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#2
The main difference that I noticed is with Dantes you have four available choices for an answer and with CLEP, you have five.
DSST:
Here's To Your Health- 56 (Cold) Big Grin
Principles of Supervision-60

CLEP:
Principles of Management- 65
Marketing- 53 :eek:
Sociology- 63

ASBA 3/09
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#3
clep exams are always considered lower level - L
Dantes exams have both upper and lower - U , L
and of course dantes have 4 options to choose from and clep has 5
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#4
The other big difference I think is that DANTE started out as a military thing, it was Department of Defense, where as I think CLEP was just civil. But yes DANTE does upper and lower level and CLEP just lower.
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#5
And the other difference is simply the subject areas covered. A lot of CLEPs tend to center around basic core subjects--math, science, foreign language, basic history, etc. DSSTs will sometimes cover more specific areas (i.e., the Vietnam War is an entire DSST test, not just a few questions on a U.S. history exam) or more "elective" type things.....World Religions, Race to Save the Planet, etc.
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#6
This difference doesn't concern the exam format or subject matter - but, EC gives letter grades for Dantes exams based on the score you achieve. For anyone looking for boost a lagging GPA (ok me!) that could be a big plus.

Also, I love the four answer choices versus five.Smile
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#7
I also feel that for some CLEPS and DSSTS, the DSSTS may be a little easier. That may be because there are only four choices instead of five and also you have more time. I was told that the CLEP college alegebra is harder then the DSST Alegebra CLEP.
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#8
You do have more time with a DSST but I prefer CLEPs 'cause DSSTs have an annoying tendency to have vaguely worded questions, in my grumpy opinion.
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#9
studyhard Wrote:You do have more time with a DSST but I prefer CLEPs 'cause DSSTs have an annoying tendency to have vaguely worded questions, in my grumpy opinion.

I would agree will that...all in all, I would say that CLEPs are easier than DSSTs. Even though CLEP has 5 options per question versus 4 for DSST, 2-3 of the answer options on the CLEPs are usually obviously wrong and sometimes utterly ridiculous, where the DSSTs tend to be more tricky with the answer options....just my opinion...
Excelsior BS - General Business - 2008
Jacksonville State University - MBA - 2010(Done)

121 credits...ALL DONE BABY!!!

54 credits transferred in from prior college
54 credits by examination
6 credits from community college
3 credits from CSU-Pueblo (Operations Management)
4 credits for Information Literacy and Business Strategy from Excelsior

CLEP:
Principles of Macroeconomics (64)
Principles of Microeconomics (61)
Principles of Marketing (66)
Principles of Management (72)
Info Systems and Comp Applications (57)
Introductory Business Law (65)
Social Sciences & History (61)
DSST:
Principles of Supervision (58)
Principles of Statistics (67)
Introduction to Computing (60)
Principles of Financial Accounting (56)
Principles of Finance (55)
Money and Banking (52)
Ethics in America (66)
Management Information Systems (58)
ECE:
Ethics: Theory and Practice (B)
Organizational Behavior ©

GMAT: 600
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#10
Hi! I've taken the Business Law CLEP (Passed with a 64 Smile ) and I am getting ready to take the following DANTES/DSST tests...

Business Law II
Organizational Behavior
Principles of Supervision
Intro to Business

I have the electronic study guides for Principles of Supervision and Organizational Behavior and would be interested in making a trade please let me know if anyone needs it and I can email it to you. Does anyone have the Organizational Behavior or Business Law II electronic DANTES study guides?

Any help would be appreciated and if I can help anyone please let me know.

You can email me at:
volleyball7079@yahoo.com

Thanks!
Liz
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