How uneducated can you be and still pass a CLEP?

[linh]

By the way, I put dumb in the title for a laugh. I guess I should use a smiley. I was joking about dumb, but not about uneducated.

Zenurez, such a nice post, like a great essay.

First, you are not quite right. I do not have a high school diploma. I just finished first year at online school this month. Probably I will not finish. People think a diploma is necessary for college, but many colleges say if you are 25 or older and they think you will "benefit" from their college, you will be allowed in.

I think I could do well on CLEP college algebra, because I am good at math. But I already have five ALEKS credits (I know after four are overlaps.) Real fast and easy, ALEKS. I am also kind of good at science that is like math -- chemistry and physical science.

But my husband, who really believes we must sometimes leap before we look, showed me I was not ready for CLEP, even Chemistry. I am not so much afraid of CLEP as I am not wanting to get in way over my head, which I did once a long time ago. Horrible feeling, no way out.

I think SL is something I should try. SL costs more than CLEP, and you can spend your CLEPs at a lot more colleges than SL. But the big three do SL. And for SL I think I can feel the course more and be in it more. And this would help me pass.

Thank you so much for your post.

Linh