Are excelsior test scores shown to you automatically like CLEP or do you have to send them in like DSST?

Thanks

I have studied all the flash cards from IC and took my first Peterson's practice test today. I scored a 69%. I was just wondering if this is a good indication of how I will do on the real thing? I plan to continue studying all the IC materials and review what I missed on the Peterson's exam. Does anyone remember if they had to perfrom any calculations?

Yahooooo! I just finished taking my very last two exams tonight!! I had them planned at a testing center at 5 pm, the guy was sick and didn't show, but we managed to drive all the way to the other side of Atlanta and take them anyway.

I took MIS and Found. of Edu and scored a 55 and a 64 respectively, and I needed a 46 on ex. exam to pass.

The IC cards for both exams were close to what you needed, and although I got the better score on the Edu. class, I though there was more info that wasn't on IC, on the Edu. exam. But regardless, I'm not the best person to comment on these two exams: I only started studying Saturday afternoon for both of these, didn't study at all Sunday, studied all day Monday, and about 4 hours Tuesday. I knew I was cutting it close, but IC goes down forever for me as the greatest study guide ever!! And, much prayer went into all this schooling for me, b/c I did not get this degree for myself, I got it b/c my girlfriend's dad asked me to go back and finish it up.

Anyway, everything aside: all I have to do is mail in my check and grad form, and I'll get a diploma from TESC in June!!!!

Thanks SOOOO much for all the help folks,
David

My approach to the Accounting CLEP so far:

1) Worked through all of the Financial Accounting parts on IC.
2) Worked through the Financial Accounting section of 'Accounting Workbook for Dummies'
3) Using Navy Knowledge Online, I did the Fundamentals of Financial Accounting.
4) Been hitting the practice problems on principlesofaccounting.com

I took the Collegeboard Practice CLEP today for the upcoming Financial Accounting test being implemented June 30, 2006. I missed 19 out of 47 (61% correct).

I'm now moving on to the Managerial Accounting portion of the subject material and will start with the sections on IC, followed by finishing out the Managerial Accounting sections of my 'Accounting Workbook', and brushing up on principlesofaccounting.com.

Hopefully by Friday or Saturday I'll be able to start work on the Peterson's practice exams for the Principles of Accounting. Followed by my CLEP on Tuesday.

I have a few questions for those that have taken this exam:

1) While I understand that an exact percentage is almost impossible to equate to actual success on the exam, I was wondering if the curve on this one will help me, or hurt me.

2) Are the Peterson's practice exams a good indication for this one.

3) Based upon my above information would it be wise to push the exam back another week.

I only get one shot at this test and failure is not an option.

Thoughts anyone?

failed!!! Got a D!
I got overconfident and studied for 5 days and failed today afternoon.I studied very hard but i guess the time devoted to it was not enough.There was lot of information and it deserved at least a week or more.I wish instacert had a guide for it for all these exams.
Anyways...this means i still have 3 more to go to officially complete my degree.
I am allowed to take any upper level credit in place of this one.Please advice me which would be the easiest.I have taken all 4 ECE psychology exams that have IC has guides for.I have taken Ethics Theory and Practice and World Population and Civil war and Soviet Union.Last year i took Drug and Alcohol Abuse.
So i guess my options are:
DSST Management Info Systems---My knowledge about computers is terrible and almost nil.I find this subject pretty tough because of this.
Social Psychology---maybe i can wait for this one till IC gets a guide for it in March.
ECE Cultural Diversity-- I don't know anyone that has taken it yet.
Organizational Behavior ECE.
I want to complete my degree by March first week as i will be going out of the country for almost a month after that.
What other options do you think would be good?
The other 2 exams remaining are College Writing and Statistics.
Please advice,
Adoncia

Hello,

here a quick update: I just passed Abnormal Psychology and IC is enough to pass this

Good luck to all the test takers out there,
kckusek

I asked the folks at Excelsior College if a counseling course at the College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, CA would satisfy their Information Literacy requirement. Their reply was:

"I reviewed the courses from College of the Canyons and added them to the Course approval screen. As you will see COUNS 070 does not meet Information Literacy, it would be a developmental course and would not be acceptable for credit. LMTECH 100 Introduction to Research will meet the requirement."

Aha! I didn't expect them to delve into the schedule for me, but am very grateful. LMTECH 100 is a one unit online course which would cost $20 for CA residents. It still may be cheaper than the Excelsior course even with the out-of-state tuition. I haven't done it yet but I'm passing along the info so people can use it. If the CA course isn't your best option, you may try looking at the description of the Introduction to Research course at the College of the Canyons website and then attempt to match it to a community college in your area. The course starts in a few months so if there's still room there should still be time to enroll. It's a bit of a hassle to apply and enroll for one unit, but it may save some significant $$$$.

*Follow-up Jan 2008: FYI, I did complete this course and it was not very difficult. At the time, two classroom appearances were required but the teacher stated that his intent was to offer it completely on-line--so it's worth checking out if money is an issue. I copied the pages I needed from the small textbook that was used so there was no significant book expense and most assignments were short and on-line. The most work required was a two page paper with proper bibliography. It takes one month to complete--so the Excelsior course can be completed much faster--but this one is only twenty bucks. So, if you have twenty dollars and time to do a few assignments over the course of a month, you may want to check this out.

I understand CLEP tests are scored between 20 and 80. Does anyone know how that correlates to scores out of 100? Is there a chart somewhere? Any information regarding CLEP (or DSST) scores' relationship to your score out of 100 would be greatly appreciated. I'm assuming that you can get about 35 out of 100 questions wrong to score a 50 on a CLEP, but it would be helpful to have more info before taking my CLEPs on Monday. Thanks!

Hi,

I thought I would introduce myself. My name is Brenda and I am currently a full-time Licensed Practical Nurse in a small town in northern Wisconsin. I am working on getting my Bachelor's of Science in nursing through Indiana State University. So far I have taken the following Excelsior Exams:

Anatomy and Physiology 6 credits
Microbiology 3 credits
Pathophysiology 3 credits (upper level)
English Composition 6 credits

Excelsior's english comp with essay is a nightmare. It is a computerized timed test. You have 3 hours to write 3 papers. I have spoken to the college regarding this test. If anyone plans on taking this,let me know and I will talk to you about this one. ISU would only accept Excelsior's class for Eng. Comp.

I will take my first CLEP on Thursday. After taking the above Excelsior tests I feel well prepared to take a CLEP exam. Instacert is great. I plan on using CLEP, DSST's and Excelsior exams for my entire first 2 years of school and then some. Intro to Sociology will be my first exam and I feel well prepared. I also used an Intro to Sociology textbook that my 20 year old college son had. It was a $25 textbook from Best Value textbook compnay and had great info in it. Easy reading.

I feel blessed to have stumbled upon Instacert!

Good Luck to all,
Brenda

I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Michael and I'm 41. I'm an Office Administrator in a downtown LA law firm and a life-long musician. I started college right after high school and had two mostly unsuccessful semesters at two different community colleges in upstate NY before moving to Los Angeles. I graduated with honors from Musicians Institute in Hollywood which is not worth anything towards a traditional degree. I have about 29 credits from that effort, and, fortunately, took care of my Math and English requirements back then.

I'm going to take the CLEP Info Systems and Computer Apps and DSST Intro to Computers on Monday. I should be studying now but I received so much useful info from this forum that I thought I'd jump in so people could see what I was doing and chime in with any advice that might be helpful. To prepare for these tests, I've:

• Taken the CLEP practice test

• Studied the Long & Long Computers textbook

• Taken the three Peterson practice tests

• Studied InstantCert (of course!)