American Gov't CLEP

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A 65 is a good score on a CLEP test. Understand that the company that creates the CLEP tests is the same company that creates the PSAT and SAT. The PSAT is scored the same as a CLEP test using a range of 20-80 with 50 as the midpoint. Now take those three numbers and multiply them by 10. You get 200-800 with a midpoint of 500. Is that familiar? That's the scoring of the sections of the SAT. None of this is coincidence, it is all by design. The Educational Testing Service has devised these scales for comparability of results.

Scaled scores do not necessarily convert directly to percentages. Nor should a simplistic linear conversion be trusted.

A 65 on a CLEP is not a 65%.
100 * 65/80 is not necessarily the percentage correct, either.

If you want to interpret a CLEP score, multiply it by 10 and compare it to an SAT score. That's a reasonably accurate interpretation of how good a score is.