04-17-2013, 05:48 PM
You can choose to get yourself "registered" with DSST at home before testing or at the test center on the day of your first exam. Just go to ibt.prometric.com/dsst, scroll down to the bottom of the screen and select "first time registration", make sure you designate that this registration is for "DSST" (not DSST Practice Tests, or DSST Military, etc.) and then complete the registration form assigning yourself a user name and password, along with filling in all information that you know (you will probably not know the test center code where you plan to test). Please, please, please make sure you are entering a DSST score recipient code for your school and NOT the CLEP code -- this is not the same thing at all and your results will not go where you want them to! Once you are logging in at your test center, make sure that you ask the proctor for their test center number as DSST needs to know where you actually took the test.
I always suggest to candidates to keep their user name as basic as possible -- first and last name separated by a period or the underscore. Once you are done filling out the form, it will tell you if that name was not acceptable (usually means someone else already took that user name). As long as you can remember that user name, it is very easy to reassign a new password no matter where you are -- home, test center, new test center... by just entering your user name and answering the security question that you selected when you registered. There is no reason at all to have several user names and passwords floating around unless you also take the DSST practice tests (where you need a completely different user name, but can use the same password).
What is to keep you from taking your DSST exam in the comfort of your home since you can set up the registration page there? The proctor has to actually log in with their unique user name and password before you can enter your form of payment. Without this log in and your payment going through, no exam will be delivered.
I always suggest to candidates to keep their user name as basic as possible -- first and last name separated by a period or the underscore. Once you are done filling out the form, it will tell you if that name was not acceptable (usually means someone else already took that user name). As long as you can remember that user name, it is very easy to reassign a new password no matter where you are -- home, test center, new test center... by just entering your user name and answering the security question that you selected when you registered. There is no reason at all to have several user names and passwords floating around unless you also take the DSST practice tests (where you need a completely different user name, but can use the same password).
What is to keep you from taking your DSST exam in the comfort of your home since you can set up the registration page there? The proctor has to actually log in with their unique user name and password before you can enter your form of payment. Without this log in and your payment going through, no exam will be delivered.
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