Do Not Take Accuplacer Tests!!!

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Maybe, just maybe, you should consider NOT believing what advisors tell you to do. View whatever they tell you with skepticism. College advisors at brick and mortar schools generally do not understand credit by examination, certainly not like we do here.

As I posted previously, here in Texas you can get credit for exams that a university does not give credit for. You get a degree from a community college that does grant credit for DSST exams. After getting your degree, transfer to a public university in Texas that does not give credit for DSST. If the DSST credits were used to fulfill core requirements at the community college and a degree was conferred, the university is compelled by state law to accept the credits even though they were obtained from exams the university does not normally accept. Do you think a college advisor is going to tell you something like that? I don't think so.

Advisors are useless when it comes to telling students how to work the system. That's not intended as negative criticism. They are good at handling the routine. People who test out are edge cases, not what is typically seen in college.

I don't listen to advisors, only to this forum and my own research.
My wife had to take a Placement test at Central Texas College (CTC) for math. She passed it with a "C" which allowed her to take College Algebra. But the school told her she technically didn't pass and she needed to take Remedial math 085 which doesn't count. After that semester she needed another higher remedial. She was not allowed to take a Science course unless she took and passed College Algebra. After that I told her to enroll as a non-degree seeking student. I told her to drop her classes and take College Math and Biology with Excelsior, College Algebra with ALEKS and ENG Comp II at CTC.

I enrolled her in TESC, transferred all the Community college credits, Excelsior and ALEKS credit and she graduated with her AA from TESC. Too easy, getting to the same goal in a shorter time, with less hassle dealing with all the ripoff remedial bullcrap.