CLEP Unethical?

[irnbru]

There's not a great deal to be achieved if you're no longer with the school in question. If you were, then it would be a reasonable idea to take the time to check the school's policy on external credit, transfer credit, resitting exams, retaking courses and so on. An interesting concept to keep in the back of your mind is that any school's academic honesty policy should certainly be interpreted as their academic ethics policy.

This is usually a set of rules and expectations of behaviour covering important topics like plagiarism, impersonation and other forms of cheating. This is a completely different set of policies to how to deal with say, international credit, whether an external course is evaluated as lower or upper level or funding.

By describing external sources of credit as unethical, the person who you asked advice from was using emotive language, probably incorrectly and arguably misleadingly. Based on your read of their reaction, there was an element of appeal to authority behind their argument which detracts from their credibility by its open fallaciousness.

Meanwhile, the lesson still stands; it's worthwhile doing your own research and presenting a case backed up with facts. Or, if you need to ask someone to do something for you, do all the work yourself first, present it to them and ask them to tick the box.

edit: What the hey; which college was it? Every college is different but it's always good to know what's going on out there. Interesting side thought: CLEPs are intended as a standardised college-level test.