I passed, my final 2 DSST test and I amset to graduate APril 26th (commencement is on June 2nd)! I must say thanks a million times to Instant Cert and this forum. I could not have done this without this website. I spent 2 months studying for and passing the following exams:

Drug and Alcohol Abuse on 3/9 with a score of 51
MIS on 3/9 with a score of 52
Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union 51
Civil War and reconstruciton on 4/9 with a score of 47 (47 is passing whew!)

Now I know that these scores aren't great, but hey a pass is a pass, and that's all that I needed!!!

WOW, 12 upper division credits in 2 months, for a total cost of less than $400, you can't beat that!!!!!

In going through the flash cards, there are a multitude of "acts" listed in the questions. How many of them are actually on the test? Do I need to memorize each and every one of them?

Hello all of you fellow CLEPers and Dante exam takers,

If you're going for a business degree at Excelsior College, you will need credits in Production/Operations Management and Business Policy. CLEP and DSST do not offer these exams. TECEP exams seem to be the popular alternative, however, they are reputed to be difficult, expensive, and slow to provide your scores. Rumor has it they cost $400 each, and it takes a good 6 weeks or longer to receive your results. Let me tell you about a cheaper, and possibly quicker alternative that will get you your 3 credits quicker that TECEP.

CSU-Pueblo (Colo St. Univ) offers independent study courses for both of the Excelsior College courses I mentioned. You pay tuition of $297 per course then the Professor emails you a syllabus. You get 6 months to turn in the required discussion question assignments from the textbook (another $60-$80 purchase from amazon, Ebay, or half.com) and to take 4 exams. Once you have read the chapters and done the discussion questions, you email the Professor and request the next exam. He will email it to you to take at home. (closed book... of course ). You can bust out the assignments and exams as quickly as possible and the prof claims to be able to grade them quickly and return them with feedback in a day or two. Plus, the Prof is available for questions by email. PLUS... They do NOT verify that you have met the prerequisite courses. Even though you would do yourself an injustice to skip over the prerequisite courses, in my opinion. You need them anyway.

I suspect you can take the course for $297 in... let's say.. 1 month or maybe 2 and get a final grade right away. That sure beats spending $400 for a scary TECEP test that you don't know how well to study for and a long, drug out, lag time waiting for the test to be graded. Besides... what if you fail it?? What a waste of time AND money.
See both course descriptions on this page...

http://coned.colostate-pueblo.edu/Indepe...tudy/Mgmt/

I've done my research and I think you'd be doing something if you found a better value for Production/Operations Management and/or Business Policy at LSU (independent study) or anywhere else. LSU has a restriction on assignments per week. CSU-Pueblo does not.

I am waiting for my textbook to arive in the mail and then I will bust out P/O Mgmt in short order.

I wish I knew whether Excelsior would accept MGMT 460 - Operations Strategy instead of MGMT 485 - Management Strategy and Policy (which is actually the CSU-Pueblo capstone course) for their Business Policy requirements. I have a hunch they will based on the course name. But, I don't know. If you know... would you let me know?

Hope this info helps you as much as me.

what are some pros and cons on distance education and brick/mortar schooling ?


I can say one advantage of Distance education would be time and less distractions .....

I feel a brick and mortar school can give you a great education but also distractions as well...

I've gone through pretty much every testing center for both the DSST and CLEP exams in my region (there are maybe 5 total, within ~1 hr drive). Some of them won't have anything until the fall, and others require one test per day (sometimes choice between DSST or CLEP), on a monthly schedule, and you have to sign up before the month starts, which is something of an annoyance if you are uncertain if you can study up within the narrow time period that would allow. What I'd like to do is spend a week per course, and take an exam once a week. I'm not sure I can do this with the limited testing offerings, and when I schedule them, I won't be certain I'll have acquired the necessary knowledge by exam time. How have others managed to adapt the capricious and inflexible exam schedules for their regions? It really seems like it's set up to discourage course blitzing.

I read through the book and used the CD-ROM to take the first practice test. It scored it as a 60, is that an accurate representation of the score I would need to pass this test?

So I took the intro to psych today, passed with a 60 on only 4 hours a sleep from the night before. This is something I wouldn't recommend. But it couldn't be helped in my case. The night before, someone busted into my house while I was in it. They heard me and left before taking anything. I had to call the locksmith and have new deadbolts put on at the cost of $300. My luck lately has been really bad. My lesson out of all this is no matter what obstacles you go through in life, just keep your head up and realize that to get to the top of the mountain, you have to go through challenges before the final summit has been reached.

I am going to take my first DANTES and am confused about the scoring. I see that people get 49 and pass...is that out of 100? Or is the scoring different?

Thanks in advance

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See this question on various forums. Though it might be a good idea to start a list of regionally accredited schools that give credit or recognize degrees from nationally accredited schools. Here is one link, I don't know much about the school, or even if they have distance learning options available, but see that they will consider nationally accredited

degrees.Programs - Argosy University/Dallas - Argosy University


Thanks,
BGN