I acheived my objective with Principles of Management and American Government after one week of imput! Alas, my output was not as stellar as I had hoped after being ill which affected my productivity. However, I made the grade with a 69 and 66, respectively.

Principles of Management - This exam is alot of common sense! I agree with the more experienced members of this form that IC is enough to pass! In a different turn, I didn't master IC on this one and mainly mastered the first two IC sections, but reviewed most of the questions-some only once. However, I did some indy study with Wikipedia on theories, theorists, and terms. Plus, reviewed the College Board practice exam, comparing answers to questions after taking the exam. Took two Peterson's and scored 76 and 70. My advice: make sure you know the material in IC solidly and you can't go wrong. At 19, no experience in "Corporate America" or Business Management (other than listening to my father who is a manager). I know mastering IC, as I did with Intro to Sociology, would have brought it up in the 70's.

American Government - This was the second exam I took today; My reasoning for the order was that I had more experience in this subject (after volunteering on staff of a state-wide campaign last year) and was scoring good on Peterson's tests 70 (after studying one IC section), 72 (after a little more IC study), and 75 (College Board book test). I felt shaky in my Management prep, so I focused my time there and hardly studied for Am Gov't, but did a little Wikipedia about beginning of the week. I took 1 hour in between tests to study up on Bill of Rights, Constitutional amendments, Dred Scott case, court cases (ie Marbury v Madison) at the community college library on Wikipedia. I felt very good taking the test and breezed through the first 50 questions and felt like I unquestioningly knew the answers to at least the first 65 questions. I was shocked at my score (less than Mgmt) as I just knew I scored in the 70's on American Governmet. I recommend knowing the things I mentioned, mastering IC, and taking the Official CLEP book test along with Peterson's and reveiwing the answers. This is not a hard test if you enjoy history and government, but I think mastery of IC would have brought my score up into the 70's (maybe helped me avoid some pitfalls). There were about 6-8 graphs and charts.

This is getting too long, but hopefully somebody can learn from this experience.

Hello everybody,

I'M DONE! hilarious

I just found out, that the last three outstanding exams where all a pass.

This means, I got my Bachelor in 10 weeks.

A BIG Thank you to this web-site and the forum.
Especially Johanna, Adoncia and ShotoJuku. Without your motivation and trust in me, I would have given up (about 5-times at least ).

Here is how the last two months looked like. I took 3 days off work for exams and studying. All other exams where written during my lunch break, before or after work.

12 upper Masters Credits traditional courses
6 lower College Mathematic 3rd January 58 pass
6 lower Social Science & History 4th January 51 pass
3 lower Dantes Principles of Supervision 9th January 59 A
3 lower CLEP Intro Psychology 10th January 54 pass
3 lower Dantes Fundamentals of Counceling 12th January 48 B
3 lower CLEP Information Systems 13th January 56 pass
3 lower Dantes Here's to your Health 17th of January 56 A
3 upper Dantes Drug & Alcohol Abuse 18th January 56 A
12 lower German 19th January pass pass
4 upper German 19th January pass pass
3 lower CLEP Human Growth & Development 22rd January 63 pass
3 lower CLEP Introduction to Sociology 23rd January 59 pass
3 lower DANTES Introduction to World Religions 24th January 52 B
3 lower Dantes Human / Cultural Geography 24th January 53 B
3 lower CLEP Intro Edu. Psychology 26th January 46 fail
3 lower CLEP Principals of Management 29th January 68 A
3 upper ECE Exam World Population 1st February 8am C C
3 upper ECE Social Psychology 5th February 8pm D fail
3 upper ECE Foundations of Grontology 5th February 5:15pm B B
3 upper ECE Abnormal Psychology 6th February 8am C C
3 upper ECE Psychology of Adulthood and aging 6th February 2pm B B
3 lower Dantes Criminal Justice 8th February fail fail
3 lower DANTES Introduction to Business 8th February 55 B
3 upper Dantes Management Information Systems 8th February 50 B
3 lower Env. Human Race to Safe the Planet 8th February 57 A
3 lower Dantes Ethnics in America 12th February 63 A
3 lower Dantes - Intro to Modern Middle East 12th February fail fail
3 lower CLEP - Principals of Marketing 14th February 69 pass
3 upper ECE Management of Human Resources 15th February 5:15pm D fail
3 lower Dantes - Human Resource 16th Febrruary ?? pass
6 lower Humanities 20th February 49 fail
3 lower CLEP American Government 21st February 50 pass
1 lower Information Literacy 90 pass
3 lower Personal Finance 28th February ?? pass
3 lower Intro to Computing 2nd March ?? pass
3 lower Intro to Law Enforcement 2nd March ?? pass
3 lower General Anthropology 2nd March ?? pass
3 lower CLEP - Intro to Business Law 2th of March 48 fail
3 upper ECE Organizational Behavior 5th March 8:00am C
3 upper ECE Reseach Methodes in Psychology 6th March 5pm B

THANK YOU!!!

kckusek

Hello,
I just wanted to introduce myself.
I've been using IC for quite a while now. But I've just joined the Forums.
You all have such great advice. I'm looking forward to joining the discussions. !
Mattie

It's time, today I take the test and this being the first test ever taken since high school nearly 11 years ago, I'm quite nervous. I believe I'll do good just my nerves are getting the best of me right now.

Hello everybody,

just to share my exitement, that it might have been my last exam yesterday.
I passed the DANTES - Personal Finances, DANTES - HR (got the results yesterday) and passed the ECE - Org. Behavior (on Monday) and the ECE - Research Methods in Psychology (yesterday).

I'm soo happy that I found IC and this great forum. I would have not been able to do it without you!!!

I'll keep you posted about the 3 outstanding results.

kckusek

Now that I graduate next month from EC, I have been looking at reasonably established colleges that offer on-line MBA degrees and are still affordable (I do not consider $1800 per class affordable). I found Amberton College. What do you think?[URL="http://www.amberton.edu/MDegrees.HTM#MANAGEMENT"]

I also considered the University of Aspen but there are so many schools to choose from, I don't know what's best.

I graduated Summa Cum Laude, would that give me a good chance to get a scholarship with one of the good schools (Texas A&M or Rice?). I have no experience with this whatsoever!

Thanks!

Christa

and passed with a 52....whew!!!! I couldn't believe it. It really bothers me to pass by the skin of my teeth, but at least its another pass. I don't feel like I really studied anything that was on that test. It was weird because I felt confident about it when I was taking it, but I was surprised when I saw my score. I hope to soon get a score in the 60's.....:o

This question is not really CLEP related, but I need to get a bit of encouragement about attaining a degree. I will have my BS/BA degree by February 2008 (that is, if I pass all four of the CLEP's I have left), and as I'm looking for potential jobs, I am wondering if I will be able to even land a good paying job even if I don't have the specific experience they are looking for. I would like to go into accounting or finance, but I am worried that I won't get hired because I don't have the experience. I know that a degree is a worthwhile goal, but will it truly transform into more money? It seems most people going for a degree are already in the field or company that they want to be in and a degree will enable them to move up the ladder, but I want an entirely different job. As a side note, I plan on going on to get my MBA, which will take me one year more. Say for instance, I wanted to go into management, but I only have the MBA and no experience. As you can see, I am still deciding what I want to be when I grow up (I'm 43..lol)

Any thoughts?

This is my first Clep ever.

I've studied instantcert's flashcards (I know them well) and taken 3 practice tests scoring in the mid 60's (out of 100). Could someone tell me if these are sufficient scores to pass?

Does guessing count against you?

How many questions are on the test?

Thanks in advance! I will hopefully have good news tomorrow

Alina

Just joined IC and the first exam I plan to take is "intro to business."

Assuming I start studying now what do you think would be a decent ammount of time to prepare before going to take this?

Also for those of you who have taken this exam did you use IC only or something else to supplement?

Thanks