I passed my life span development physic but need additional info for CLEP

Aliakey · Mar 20, 2012

Good luck on your studies!

For Information Literacy, you can find a less expensive option over at Penn Foster, and you work at your own pace (unlike EC's 8 week course). It can be taken as an individual class, so you do not have to send your official transcripts to them, follow a long enrollment process, or more importantly, have to pay any sort of high-dollar admission fee. It took me 10 minutes to sign up for the class online and establish a student account. You can either immediately access the reading material in a .pdf format from your new Penn Foster student account, or wait until snail mail arrives with the printed version of the 106 page study guide.

You will take two online examinations at home for this course, and will have plenty of time for each question (20 questions for each exam). I worked hard on trying to get an "A" on it, but a few questions really didn't make sense to me so ended up with a "B" instead... grumble. Kinda feel insulted, lol!

I think transcript fees are $12 to get an official copy over to Excelsior. Be sure to have a good internet connection when you take your test, as a good number of questions on the second exam have you using the search engines out there (intentionally) and accessing the Library of Congress web site for answers. It took me 4 hours total for both exams last night, but I also live out in the sticks with slow internet.

Before enrolling in the course, DO make a request to substitute this class for the one at EC (via your Excelsior account) just to play it safe. I got an answer/approval from my advisor in 2 days when I used the message center, so it won't take long and the approval is "on paper", so to speak.

Anyway, the information for Penn Foster's Information Literacy class follows:

Web link:

Individual College Courses - Penn Foster College

You will be signing up for ENG103, which right now costs $70 for the one credit course.

After passing the exams, you'll call Student Services at 1-888-427-1000 to get a copy of the transcripts sent to Excelsior. Took a while to find this information, so made it easy for you, lol!

As for CLEP... I love CLEP!

I take the exams at my local university, which are offered twice a week during regular sessions. The CLEP exam is $77, and my testing site tacks on an additional $49 to test there. Still beats the cost of a formal course any day.

Again, I would use the message center at Excelsior to get approval for a CLEP exam to fulfill degree requirements. I did this for my Psychology core requirement... the Human Growth and Development CLEP exam was allowed to cover it at a value of 3 credits. Make sure that when you take the exam, you indicate that Excelsior college needs to be a recipient of the scores.

The CLEP exams that Excelsior accepts are found here:

http://www.excelsior.edu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=969eaa1d-b672-4eaf-8576-f3afcce7119e&groupId=78666

Go to page 23 of this .pdf for specific CLEP information.

The College Board is the official CLEP people, and a description of each CLEP exam is here:

CLEP Exams | CLEP

Once you select a subject from that link, it'll offer a recommended reading list. One solid textbook from the list should do fine... you don't need them all.

You can find a CLEP testing center here if you're not sure where to test:

Test Center Search | CLEP

Disadvantage to CLEP? It cannot affect your GPA. For some folks, this is a good thing, but for me, I'm trying to repair my less-than-stellar GPA from less studious student days well over a decade ago, lol! For your goal of becoming a CNRA, GPA will be a consideration.

Hope you weren't looking for the Cliff Notes version of an answer to your questions.

Firemedicj · Mar 26, 2012

WOW!!!! lol this is great info! thanks i had to read it more than once to grasp all of it. thanks for making life easy on me! and i think i will do the CLEP and Penn Foster info literacy exams. one more question how long did it take you to take the Info Literacy ? weeks?

Nervous1 · Mar 27, 2012

I just finished info lit yesterday, took 1 day.

RNFinally12 · Mar 30, 2012

What did you use to study for the Life span test. How long did you study for? How hard do you think it was. I need to take this soon if you have any pointers for me.

Thank you!

Hey guys like i said i passed my Life Span development Physic Exam with a B. :w00t:horrrayyy! weird little test i must say! but with that done and out of my way, i still got a lot of test in my way. I was wondering where i can take the INFO literacy class outside of EC ( heard someone say they took it in 5 days and passed and paid way less.), and clep the sociology exam ( which i also heard was cheaper and easier) and what books and other info i should use. i want to get them both done ASAP. also is there any cons to cleping a exam? because my final goal would be to become a CRNA. do other good schools accept CLEPS? anything you all got that can help i would love to hear about! thanks and i LOVE this site so much great info and people!
Thanks,
Jason Garcia
Paramedic/Firefighter
City of Marathon Fire Rescue