Disregard my post.

Passed this bad boy with a 60 today! 3 weeks of studying with IC 2 hours a day and a little background reading to frame all the information helped me come away with another 3 credits! The test was alot harder than I anticipated. Pay attention to everything in the flashcards INCLUDING the bottom info, it will help you. I also RECOMMEND getting the REA guide to do some background reading to help put everything together. The two practice tests and its answers WILL help you pass this test. Anyways, im off to start studying english comp!

I just purchased a couple of study guides for the U.S. History I Clep test. Just curious if there is any good videos/documentaries that cover the Colonial Period to 1865? Hoping once I'm done, to go head and take practice test with Instantcert.

Joe

I decided to take this test after looking at the CLEP American Gov't and figuring that I was better off taking a test that (1) appeared easier, and (2) would give me a grade. Well, I suspect it was easier--and it did give me a grade, but this test was second only to the DSST Statistics in terms of unpredictability of outcome.

I did more outright guessing on Statistics than on any other exam I took and took the entire two hours and got a 60. I took less than an hour on Criminal Justice, knew the answer to as many, if not more of the questions than on any other test I took (only 5 outright guesses) and I got....a 57!

I saw that score and I was excited I passed and stunned the score was in the 50's. I hadn't even looked to see where the the EC cut-offs were for scoring an A, B or C. I was happy it was over and that I passed, but I would have been a bit bummed if I scored a B--since I knew I must've been within a point or two of an A.

I got in the car and looked at my trusty EC assessment guide and saw that the cut-off for an A was.......56! JEEZ!!

That was a little TOO close for comfort. I would LOVE to see what my actual score (out of the 90 questions) was. I expected my scaled score would have at least been in the mid-60's.

If I cared more, I'd ask them to hand-grade to see what that looked like. I don't know exactly what happened. Maybe I lost the bet on all the questions I narrowed down to two (30 of them). I'm usually more fortunate, I think, but since we never see the results, who knows? Maybe I didn't really know the answer to the 55 I thought I knew. Maybe I fell victim to every almost correct but not the best answer. Maybe so many folks do well that you have to get 80% or better correct to start scoring in the 60's.

I'll never know and after I stop typing, I won't think about it again.

I used only InstantCert and the Specific Exam Feedback to prepare (and the five questions in the DSST Fact Sheet—at least one which was on the exam!). There was not a lot of specific feedback on this exam in the "Specific Exam Feedback" section, but what was there was helpful and accurate.

Here are some of the concepts you should know well:

• Know all of the important court decisions (Mapp vs. Ohio, Gideon vs. Wainwright, Powell vs. Alabama, etc.) There were at least four to six questions on those and you had to know them cold. InstantCert had all but one.
  
  
• Know what makes police departments unique amongst large organizations.
  
  
• Know as much as you can about trends (Crime—growing? Slowing? A lot? A little? Why?) (Prisons—growing? Shrinking? A lot? A little? Why?) (Police—Popular? Diversifying?) I don’t know where exactly you get this kind of data—hurt me a little in HG&D too—but if you can find a source, use it.
  
  
• Parole vs. Probation – many questions required distinguishing and understanding the differences between the two in a variety of scenarios—front-end and back-end
  
  
• Know what the UCR is and what is and what is not a Part I crime.
  
  
• Know all of the Latin words (mens rea, etc.)
  
  
• Know the history of the police department and the main players in it’s development. Make sure you remember at least the centuries in which they occurred. The test requires you to know that cold.
  
  
• Know the various forms of juvenile deviance.
  
  
• Know where the “firsts” were (police dept., juvenile hall, etc.)
  
  
• Know what happens at arraignment based on what the plea (or lack thereof) is.
  

Testing tomorrow the 18th, very nervous, have to cram all information tonight. Have to work all day tomorrow before test at 2pm and work is very busy mind and physical. Say a prayer for me tonight, thanks guys.

Hello all,

For several years, I have been working on writing a children's adventure book based during the Civil War and received them in the mail Friday. It is really exciting to finally have it finished and published!

Has anyone ever read a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book? My book, called A Courier for Stonewall, is like those in the "Choose..." series in that the reader is the star and will have different adventures based on different decisions he makes. Anyone interested in reading more about it can visit my website at Southern Cadence Press.

I hope to have my next book, The Orphan and the Beaten Drum, published soon.

Hello, I am working towards a BS General Business at Excelsior. I would like to make sure that I am interpreting things correctly.

It looks like the Organizational Behavior and Ethics in America DSSTs fulfill the core requirements but would apply to the Arts & Sciences total of my Status Report whereas the comparable ECEs will fulfill the core requirements and apply to the Business total of my Status Report.

Is that accurate?

Chris
84 credits

Does anyone know what Penn Foster requires in a proctor? (as in, who may proctor the exams?) Please offer examples of the proctor that you have found.
Thanks

Check out the link below. It's one of the best sources of math instruction I've found, and covers everything from fundamentals to engineering. I hope it helps those of you who are testing out. I buckled under the pressure of possibly failing and went the way of B&M for algebra and calculus.

Online Mathematics At The University of Houston


V/R,

I planned a pretty heafty day of study and their site is down. Did anyone involved with EC receive any notice about this down time? I was at "My EC" a lot in the last few days and never seen any kind of heads up.:confused: