10-07-2011, 06:33 PM
MMM Wrote:However, my question was (and still is): will it "conflict" with credit from the CLEP Calculus?
Thomas Edison State College will grant up to 6 credits for AP examinations for which a scores of 3 or better has been awarded.
Up to 6 is nice, but how do you "make sure" you receive 6 credits (as opposed to 5 - or 2!)?
It's definitely duplicate credit. The AP "AB" test and the CLEP calc both cover what is traditionally Calc1. The "BC" test covers both Calc1 and Calc2, basically. You have to ask them about the awarded credits because in their catalog they have the calc CLEP equivalent to their Calc1 course and they have a 3 next to it for the credit amount. But if you search TESC for their Calc1 course it turns up as a 4 credit course. So TESC has to make up its mind because a lot of schools would honor a score of 4 or 5 on the AP "BC" calc test as credit for both their Calc1 and Calc2 classes which would be 8 credits at TESC, but they say they only award up to 6. If I was just going to guess I'd say that they'd award the full 8 credits for a good score on the "BC" because it is meant to translate directly to specific courses, not just be some sliding scale of awarded generic credit.
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