GRE Subject Tests

[alissaroot]

Does anyone know what courses the GRE CS will substitute for? Or can you pick which classes you want to have the credit applied to?

Thank you for all this info, it is extremely helpful!!!

I do not know which courses the GRE Comp. Sci. will duplicate, but I do know that you do not get to choose which courses you would like to have it applied to. The GRE is awarded as bulk credit, and the individual courses are not listed out separately, and I think Excelsior will deduct whatever you already have from the GRE credit.

Example transcript entry:

GRE Subject Exams
(690) Computer Science...........12LL..........Pass
(690) Computer Science...........18UL.........Pass

So you must aim for a score higher than any credits you have already accumulated in order to avoid having the whole thing be a wash because of duplication. That goes for all the GREs. They are a bit cryptic about which courses will duplicate because there doesn't appear to be a strict list of what will or will not duplicate. It depends on what you already have. Say, if you have already passed CLEP Intro. to Comp. Apps. and I have passed the DSST Intro. to Computers, and we both score at the 35th percentile on the GRE. Even though these are different credits that we have, we will neither one receive credit from the GRE, because we both have lower level duplicate credit.

Also, to answer another question earlier in this thread about which study guides to use. The Princeton Review "Cracking the GRE Subject exam..." books are almost always recommended by former test takers for all the GRE exams, and I have found them to be helpful for psychology and literature both so far. If you are only going to purchase one study guide, it should probably be the Princeton Review one.