GRE Subject Tests

[Kaz]

FYI, you can't clear the remaining English credits via freshman classes, either! Excelsior lists the major requirements in their Guidelines publications in sequence, meaning that if you fall short by two classes worth of credit, you'll need to fulfill the last two requirements on the list. I came up one notch short of qualifying for 30 credits on the Lit in English exam, so to complete the major I would have had to take a class from the final category in the sequence (single author study). Finding a single-author class that wasn't Shakespeare was difficult (technically EC shouldn't accept a Shakespeare class for that credit anyway, as a Shakespeare class is part of the normal sequence, but they do) and I decided to just switch to liberal studies to avoid the expense and extra time.

Cool. What I meant to say with the English, is that usually taking "101 & 102" is all the pre-reqs you'll need in order to take the upper level classes you'd need to top off that GRE. Not that after you took the English GRE, you could take 101 & 102 and be finished. I was trying to illustrate the contrast to math, where if you were a couple classes short there, the classes you would need to take to top that off have many more pre-reqs.

For mathematics, the upper-level sequence is two analysis courses, then two UL algebra courses, then one applied math course in areas like discrete math or graph theory, and finally one applied math course in areas like numerical analysis or mathematical modeling. If you score high enough to get 27 credits, you would be required to take the two applied math courses to finish the major.

And as you point out, it might be tough to register for those UL credits elsewhere if they want proof that you meet the pre-reqs. On the Excelsior transcript, the GRE-based credits are recorded as lumps of pass credit, with X number of lower-level and Y number of upper-level. It's not broken out into what classes in the sequence were considered fulfilled by the score.

Interesting, so Excelsior has them in that order? If you come up 3 credits short after taking the GRE you have to fulfill it with something from Subgroup 2, Section C? Interesting. A lot of their examples of applied math are easier to pre-req at my school than Section A. I wonder, since I already have Subgroup 2 in Section C fulfilled, I could take the GRE, miss the top 3 credits and be finished?! :eek: