CLEP Forum - CLEP Study - CLEP Testing

Scholar Interrupted · #14 (**permalink**) 04-02-2008, 03:27 PM

I just stopped by to ask a very similar question to Jake's, and I thought I would check and see if it had already been discussed. I'm so glad I read what the experienced people here had to say. I'm feeling better than ever about the choice I made.

I also should say that I'm continually impressed with the quality of everyone I encounter here. You can't tell me that a similar cross-section of the student body from any brick-and-mortar school -- Ivy or not -- would be any more intelligent, articulate, kind, and helpful. In most cases, they would be a lot less so.

Oh, and just to add my own 2 cents about testing-out versus taking the course. I've done it 3 times now, and plan to do a lot more, and I've found that what happens is you learn the things you would expect to take away and remember long-term from the full course. The big concepts, the fundamental principles -- the foundations you need for more advanced learning. You don't learn a lot of the minutiae that you'd likely forget the day after the final exam anyway. But more importantly, because you are in complete control of your own learning experience (and usually responsible for locating your own books and other study aids), you have a higher retention rate than if you passively sat in a crowded lecture hall and scribbled down what a professor said.