What do DSST Scores Mean?

[sirjake]

Welcome to the forum!

I thought this article about DSST and CLEP scoring, which was originally posted by gofastinc, was very interesting.

http://www.getcollegecredit.com/pdfs/exam-scoring.pdf

DSST is saying that the new refreshed exams are being scored similarly to CLEP, and the old non-refreshed exams are not. Instead of comparing test-takers to each other to determine the passing score (old non-refreshed DSST exams), they are both (new DSST and CLEP) setting a certain number/percentage of questions correct as the passing score.

I also thought this was good to have for reference:

http://www.getcollegecredit.com/download...100108.pdf

Wow. That's really interesting! Particularly the percentages needed to pass and then in the second document the "B" level scores. I'm kind of surprised that the "B" level is that low. I always just assumed that a B would be higher. That's pretty cool info. Thanks for posting it!