ModernStates Update + Passed my first CLEP!

[SCYankee]

Congrats! My son passed his first CLEP yesterday as well (Biology, got a 53) and also went through Modern States for the voucher. Modern States alone was not nearly enough to pass the Biology CLEP, but the voucher was certainly appreciated.

I don't think Modern States was intended to be a complete course to learn a subject from scratch.  I consider it a CLEP-prep course, and tell anyone I suggest it to, that they should only use it after already knowing the material (which they may know, or need to find another way to learn it).

To me that's contradictory. I assume everybody here is using it as a CLEP prep course. Otherwise, they would use SDC or SL and get credit for the course instead of risking it all on the exam. That's what we're using CLEP prep courses for--to learn subjects from scratch, and then test out of them. Some people know more than others about Principles of Management specifically, but hasn't everybody here has used CLEP prep resources to test out of subjects in which they had no previous experience?

Not trying to argue with you or anything. That's just my take. A lot of it was very technical: "this guy formulated that theory which said this, this, and this in the case of that..." 

If anybody knew that stuff without already taking a course in it (in which case they would have already earned the required credits), I'd be surprised. I've read my share of business books and probably never came across 90% of those details.