Whoo hoo!!!


What an awesome achievement!

You should really be proud of this accomplishment.

So happy for you!

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Mary

80 Traditional credits
45 testing

9 CLEPS
Freshmen Comp- 71
Analyzing & Interpreting Lit -72
Human Growth & Development -73
Ed Psych -67

CLEP Humanties- 7/11/06 -74
CLEP American Lit- 7/18/06 - 65
CLEP US History I I 7/18/06- 63
CLEP American Government 8/8-57
CLEP US History II 8/8 -68


2 DSSTs- 8/11
Here's to your Health 69
Fundamentals of Counseling 64


Indiana University School of Continuing Studies
B.G.S-Done!
125 credits 10/20/06 -

21 credits in one day? Wow, I do beleive that's a new record here! Great job!

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Associates Degree, Aviation Maintenance Technology, Community College of the Air Force
Bachelors of Science, Liberal Studies Degree, Excelsior
MBA Human Resource Management, California Coast University

What did the staff at the testing center say as you kept churning out these awesome scores yesterday??

I would love to have seen the looks on their faces!!!

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Mary

80 Traditional credits
45 testing

9 CLEPS
Freshmen Comp- 71
Analyzing & Interpreting Lit -72
Human Growth & Development -73
Ed Psych -67

CLEP Humanties- 7/11/06 -74
CLEP American Lit- 7/18/06 - 65
CLEP US History I I 7/18/06- 63
CLEP American Government 8/8-57
CLEP US History II 8/8 -68


2 DSSTs- 8/11
Here's to your Health 69
Fundamentals of Counseling 64


Indiana University School of Continuing Studies
B.G.S-Done!
125 credits 10/20/06 -

I take my exams at a small school and they obviously don't do this all that much (one time it took them 40 minutes to get me registered for one exam). The main woman was there when I passed my first and second exam and congratulated me, and then when I told her I wanted to take a third exam (they had the room reserved for me for another hour) she kept asking me if I was sure because there wasn't time for a break or anything. She left at noon, so when I got done at 12:20 there was another person at her desk and she had obviously been told there was a lunatic tester in the room because all she kept saying was 'wow' and 'you're so brave'. But honestly, it isn't bravery as much as that I just need to get this job done before I run out of motivation and get back in touch with my inner fears . I need to have that degree for the next step in my life and have spent so many years feeling like it would never happen that I don't want to go back to that place. I know for some people the 'slow and steady' approach works well, but I am petrified that I will lose focus if I don't go at this with guns blazing. Am I the only one that is afraid of sinking back into the apathy of feeling like the college opportunity passed me by and I can never catch up?

Hi Johanna,

In the very beginning (last November), I knew I wanted to do this, but I was afraid that I might not go all the way and see it through to the end.

As a result, I purposely took a ton of exams in rapid succession during those first few weeks. I knew that if I invested enough time and money in the beginning, and if I got a lot of credits under my belt, it would encourage me to keep going. Apparently it worked, because here I am!

Regarding the reaction from your test center staff...

We sometimes forget JUST how amazing what we are doing is. My university test center typically gets college-age students in to take perhaps one or two CLEPs in total (usually to make up for failing a course). It is quite a phenomenon when someone like us comes in and takes dozens of exams over what is really a very short period of time, and sometimes even taking more than one exam per day. It blows their minds!

We are all doing the same thing here, so we pretty much take it in our stride when one of us passes yet another exam. But to 'others' outside our little peer group, it is almost inconceivable that we could actually pass so many exams in such quick succession. People fail these exams every single day. It is easy for us to lose sight of how MUCH we are accomplishing when we pass just ONE exam. It is not surprising that the uninitiated would be shocked when someone like you walks into their test center, and three hours later walks out with 21 college credits. As the dust from your whirlwind performance settles at their feet, they are left wondering what on earth they just witnessed. By the time it sinks in, you are already calling to schedule your next exam.


Let them look on in shock and awe! We really ARE achieving great things!

Lest we forget,
Snazzlefrag

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My name is Rob
So far, I have earned 142 credits (12 not used).

Excelsior College
- BS Psychology (5 courses/exams to go)
- BS Business (2 courses/exams to go)
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Upcoming: N/A
In-progress: CSU-Pueblo: Labor Relations course
Most Recently Completed: English Composition at PFC (97).
Exams/Courses Passed To Date (43):
- Courses (4): 1 ECE, 1 CSU-Pueblo, 2 PFC.
- Exams (39): 24 DANTES, 15 CLEP.
GPA: 4.0

I received my results today!!

I was SOOO nervous to open that envelope and flip through the individual tests. I almost couldn't do it.. but...

I passed all three! What a weight off my shoulders. I couldn't have done it without all of the help and support!! Thank you everyone!

Human Resource Management: 58
Fundamentals of Counseling: 57
Management Information Systems: 59

YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY

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CLEP Principles of Microeconomics: PASSED 53
Dantes Human Resource Management: PASSED 58
Dantes Fundamentals of Counseling: PASSED 57
Dantes Management Information Systems: PASSED 59

Good for you!!! That's awesome!

I took all CLEPS except for two DANTES, and I was fearsome when those envelopes came. (Snazzlefrag told me however that there would be music and a special glow eminating from my mailbox when they arrived, so I was less apprehensive after that...)

You must have heard a full orchestra with three successfull scores like that!



Good for you!! Did you take those all at the same time?
Either way, that is an amazing accomplishment!!

Cheers

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Mary

80 Traditional credits
45 testing

9 CLEPS
Freshmen Comp- 71
Analyzing & Interpreting Lit -72
Human Growth & Development -73
Ed Psych -67

CLEP Humanties- 7/11/06 -74
CLEP American Lit- 7/18/06 - 65
CLEP US History I I 7/18/06- 63
CLEP American Government 8/8-57
CLEP US History II 8/8 -68


2 DSSTs- 8/11
Here's to your Health 69
Fundamentals of Counseling 64


Indiana University School of Continuing Studies
B.G.S-Done!
125 credits 10/20/06 -

This post truly is a keeper...thank you!

My advisor's words when I told him what I was going to do in terms of testing out of needed electives...said, "well it would work in your plan; it's ambitious...Good luck!... (read "probably not going to happen"...)

HA...take that! It was all I needed to hear to bring out the, "I'll show them all" spirit!

It's true what you say. I've been thinking seriously about going into Adult Education for reasons connected with the idea that many people are unaware of what is possible without someone to guide them and cheer them on. It is so wonderful to see that life offers so many paths, and U-turns and whatnot.

We can be whatever we choose to be at any age we choose to be it.

Nothing is set is stone.

(50 next June!)

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Mary

80 Traditional credits
45 testing

9 CLEPS
Freshmen Comp- 71
Analyzing & Interpreting Lit -72
Human Growth & Development -73
Ed Psych -67

CLEP Humanties- 7/11/06 -74
CLEP American Lit- 7/18/06 - 65
CLEP US History I I 7/18/06- 63
CLEP American Government 8/8-57
CLEP US History II 8/8 -68


2 DSSTs- 8/11
Here's to your Health 69
Fundamentals of Counseling 64


Indiana University School of Continuing Studies
B.G.S-Done!
125 credits 10/20/06 -

Congratulations Johanna and ahamlett and everyone else that has passed a test recently. You are all such an encouragement to me!!

PS Love the "lunatic tester" posts. Too funny. It's good to be back.

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Kate
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BS Psychology

Hey Kate ~ Welcome back. I thought you might have quietly graduated ! What are you studying for right now?
Johanna