Bals how long to finish?

[mysonx3]

I think a motivated person can do this in 18 months.  That's how long it took me, and I had a couple of obstacles.  (1) I didn't have any money, so I had to save and pay as I went. With CLEP being free now, that would have helped me move a LOT faster, but I did my first 60 credits via CLEP/DSST in 6 months.  (2) I had little kids - so I didn't have big chunks of time every day to dedicate to studying.  If you're a single person and work a normal full time job, I think you could easily accelerate the process to about 12 months.  Again, this assumes high motivation.

I wish I had the patience to do CLEP tests, as my ADHD makes memorizing all kinds of information for testing an uphill battle.  Is it mainly getting the 2019 CLEP Book and studying for a specific course based on the information in the book?  Apologies for the dumb question.

The book tells you what could be on the test. But you can have to look up more information. They have sample questions as well. If you ace the sample questions odds are you'll pass the test.

Personally, I think CLEP is great if you already know a bunch about something. Many people on this fourm have taken CLEPs cold (no study) and passed, especially the analyzing literature CLEP. The analyzing and interpreting lit CLEP is mostly just reading comprehension. I took it with two hours of study and passed and its worth 6 credits. My point is you don't have to memorize all kinds of information for a CLEP if it is something you already know the subject matter or are good at.

Another thing cookderosa is there weren't as many options for earning credit back then. Now there are so many.

Ahhhh ok.  So, I take it Analyzing Literature transfers as a Humanities course?  If so, I’m willing to give it a shot through Modern States.  Thank you so much for that info, by the way!

Yeah Ive noticed a lot of people are against CLEP. If it's not convenient to test I can see why. But if have the ability to test you really have to nothing to lose and it could potentially be faster than a lot of other methods. If you don't like then you know it's not for you, but you never know unless you try.

I think a lot of it is that people don't like the idea of a class that is a test and only a test, especially when it doesn't come with tailored study material. They don't like the pressure on one test.