07-24-2011, 12:01 AM
CLEP has a weird formula that is proprietary to CollegeBoard and is more closely guarded than the Coke formula.
From my understanding from reading here and elsewhere, it is a grade on a curve whereby a 50 is considered a "C" level grade for "the average college student who just finished a comparable course". They test students fairly regularly, and they change their scoring mechanisms to adjust. If students suddenly got a lot smarter then presumably their scoring would change to reflect that, and it would then be harder to "pass". I haven't learnt me no statistics yet so that's all I can speculate on.
I don't know if that makes sense at all, and it doesn't really address your question directly. So to address it directly...
Nobody really has a freaking clue.
Every score you see is based on real-world experience, but it's not gospel, i.e. there is no direct correlation between any practice test's scoring system and the official CLEP scoring system, and never can be since CollegeBoard adjusts their system anyway.
I was scoring in the low 50s on the REA A&I Lit tests and got a 79/80 on the real deal. Didn't take the Peterson's though.
From my understanding from reading here and elsewhere, it is a grade on a curve whereby a 50 is considered a "C" level grade for "the average college student who just finished a comparable course". They test students fairly regularly, and they change their scoring mechanisms to adjust. If students suddenly got a lot smarter then presumably their scoring would change to reflect that, and it would then be harder to "pass". I haven't learnt me no statistics yet so that's all I can speculate on.
I don't know if that makes sense at all, and it doesn't really address your question directly. So to address it directly...
Nobody really has a freaking clue.
Every score you see is based on real-world experience, but it's not gospel, i.e. there is no direct correlation between any practice test's scoring system and the official CLEP scoring system, and never can be since CollegeBoard adjusts their system anyway.I was scoring in the low 50s on the REA A&I Lit tests and got a 79/80 on the real deal. Didn't take the Peterson's though.
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2013 switched major to CS, then took a couple years off suddenly.
2015-2017 finished the CS.
CCAF: AAS Comp Sci
CLEP (10): A&I Lit, College Composition Modular, College Math, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Management, Microecon, Sociology, Psychology, Info Systems
DSST (4): Public Speaking, Business Ethics, Finance, MIS
ALEKS (3): College Algebra, Trig, Stats
UMUC (3): Comparative programming languages, Signal & Image Processing, Analysis of Algorithms
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Complete: TESU BA Computer Science
2011-2013 completed all BSBA CIS requirements except 4 gen eds.
2013 switched major to CS, then took a couple years off suddenly.
2015-2017 finished the CS.
CCAF: AAS Comp Sci
CLEP (10): A&I Lit, College Composition Modular, College Math, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Management, Microecon, Sociology, Psychology, Info Systems
DSST (4): Public Speaking, Business Ethics, Finance, MIS
ALEKS (3): College Algebra, Trig, Stats
UMUC (3): Comparative programming languages, Signal & Image Processing, Analysis of Algorithms
TESU (11): English Comp, Business Law, Macroecon, Managerial Accounting, Strategic Mgmt (BSBA Capstone), C++, Data Structures, Calc I/II, Discrete Math, BA Capstone
Warning: BA Capstone is a thesis, mine was 72 pages about a cryptography topic
Wife pursuing Public Admin cert via CSU.
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