Clep Tests

oldnewnurse · Aug 10, 2003

I took the English Composition CLEP about 8 years ago. Your opinion is correct, it was easy.

Good Luck!

jnette, ASN, EMT-I · Aug 10, 2003

I Clepped out of German; Coll. Level I and Coll. Level II.

I just hated the pencil/paper and filling in the little holes ! :rolleyes:

nurse2be in ny · Aug 10, 2003

I'm clepping Human Growth & Dev.; has anyone else done this one?

meandragonbrett · Aug 10, 2003

I'm taking College Algebra, English Comp, Intro to Psych, and the one dealing with computers. The people that I graduated with have told me the College Algebra and English Comp tests were easy based on our curriculum that we had. Good luck everybody !

Brett

spitfire · Aug 10, 2003

Originally posted by nurse2be in ny
I'm clepping Human Growth & Dev.; has anyone else done this one?

Hi nurse2be, I clepped out of this,what I did to study was borrowed one of the clep books and kept taking the tests in the back until my score was good, about 3 weeks of casual study. I left thinking I didn't pass but I did I wish I had clepped more of the classes,some of the students clepped everything even A&P and micro. Study and I'm sure you will be fine. Good luck,spitfire

Ann42 · Aug 10, 2003

In my college manual it says that passing the Clep test is the equivalent of a "C" or better. I don't think I'd want to do that with any course that is nursing related.

Just my opinion though. It would be nice to get of school earlier.

nurse2be in ny · Aug 10, 2003

Spitfire-thanks! (I just moved from Maine back to New York; really liked it up there.)

featherzRN, MSN · Aug 10, 2003

I Clep'd Sociology. Was a piece of cake!

spitfire · Aug 10, 2003

Originally posted by Ann42
In my college manual it says that passing the Clep test is the equivalent of a "C" or better. I don't think I'd want to do that with any course that is nursing related.

Just my opinion though. It would be nice to get of school earlier.

The school I attended did not include any clep tests in our GPA, it was added toward credits required only.Check with your school to see how the clep scores/credits are counted into your GPA. spitfire

shelleybelle · Aug 10, 2003

Our school doesn't add cleps into GPA's either. I'm really looking forward to PASSING the clep tomorrow. I'm thinking of also doing the clep for Psychology - it was the last class I took before graduating PN school a few weeks ago, so it's all still fresh. Does it really take 4 - 6wks to get your results? I guess I should've been doing this 2mos ago.

What's the Growth & Devel. consist of? Is it about the theorists, their stages of development, etc? I wouldn't mind trying that one. I don't think I'd be very successful in trying to clep out on A&P - Some of you are just too smart!! :specs:

Good luck... I may try to make a run to the bookstore today and see if I can find a clep book

JudithL_in_NH · Aug 10, 2003

Hi, Shelley!

I'm taking the Intro to Psych CLEP tomorrow and I took the English Comp (with essay) about a week ago.

First of all, I'm an English teacher. So why did I have to take the Comp CLEP? Because of my verbal SAT scores back in the dark ages, the college I earned my BA at (a well-respected state university in New England) waived College Comp. It is noted on my transcript; also noted are the five 200-300 level English courses I took (all As), and my 3.8 overall GPA. I've taught writing as adjunct faculty at a local Catholic college for five years. Yet the head of English at the Comm College I'll attend for my ADN said the lack of actually taking College Comp would mean I had "obvious gaps" in my knowledge of writing. Jeez! No discussion was permitted; he said take the course or take the CLEP!

So anyway, I know a lot about grammar and writing, and I wouldn't say the Comp CLEP was "easy." The "easy" part, at least at my Comm College, is that you only need to score 50% to get the CLEP credit. (And it does not count in the GPA.) So you can get half the answers wrong and still get the credit!

In the version I took recently, you do need to understand sentence structure and punctuation well. A lot of the questions were about choosing the sentence with the right combination of commas, semicolons, or conjunctions to form well-structured sentences that were neither run-on sentences nor comma splices. The essay portion was 45 minutes long on a particularly lame topic. I'm pretty sure that they are looking for overall structure in the essay, meaning an introduction that contains a thesis, several unified body paragraphs supporting the thesis (with topic sentences!), and a conclusion that recaps the thesis and its main points of support.

On this test, the essay is graded by a human, so it does take 2-3 weeks to get the results in the mail. I was told that I'll get my score at the end of the Psych CLEP tomorrow, as my institution offers it on a computer and the scoring is instantaneous.

Anyway, if you paid any attention at all in high school English and if you read a lot, I'm sure you'll do fine on it and get a high enough score to receive credit. I was kind of anal about wanting to CLEP Comp with the highest possible score, just so I can go waive the results in the head of the English department's face! :roll