CLEP Forum - CLEP Study - CLEP Testing

GettinMyBA · #4 (**permalink**) 03-15-2008, 09:43 PM

I dunno - I've taken both CLEP and DSST but I would never be able to make a judgement as to whether one was easier than the other. I think that since there is a vast degree of difficulty swing between tests (for example, Princ. of Mgt and Pric. of Statistics are both DSSTs - does that mean that they are both equally difficult? Ask anyone who's taken stats! LOL) this can never accurately be judged.

Someone mentioned the fact that CLEP has 5 mult choice vs 4 for DSST. While it's true that one of the CLEP is usually off the wall, I can definitely say that TIME has been an issue for me with a few tests. Now if time is an issue, and I am gonna have to blind-guess a few questions because I'm at the end of allowed test time - I would certainly want my guesses to be 1 out of 4 instead of 1 out of 5.

Personally, I much prefer DSST over CLEP. I like the interface and the fact that I have an 'account' where I can log-in and look at my past results. I love that I just log-in and then take my test... no need to go thru all the setup and verification stuff like a CLEP. Also my test center allows me to sched a DSST with 1 day notice, or evenallows me to make taking a second test a 'game-day decision'. They need a few days notice for CLEP, but I recently learned that this may just be an issue at the center that I use.