02-16-2011, 03:13 PM
I've only taken 1 DSST and 6 CLEPs so I'm kind of one sided... It seems with CLEP you can use test taking skills to narrow it down a bit more.
With the DSST test I took (World Religions) it seemed like you either knew the answer right away or had no idea and no way to make an educated guess.
Then again, religions isn't like math or business exams where you can kind of "figure it out" so it may have been the test itself, and not because it was a DSST.
But as mentioned above, 4 answers per question means 25% of guesses are correct, vs CLEP where only 20% would be correct, which can be the difference between a pass and a fail.
With the DSST test I took (World Religions) it seemed like you either knew the answer right away or had no idea and no way to make an educated guess.
Then again, religions isn't like math or business exams where you can kind of "figure it out" so it may have been the test itself, and not because it was a DSST.
But as mentioned above, 4 answers per question means 25% of guesses are correct, vs CLEP where only 20% would be correct, which can be the difference between a pass and a fail.