I just got off the phone with Thomson and was told that the tests are only graded 2 times a week: Tuesday and Thursday. I thought some of you folks might be interested in knowing.

Almost sounds like they don't get slammed with exams.

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Brian R. Fey Sr.
Psy.D - (Very Nearly and Insanely Enrolled)
M.S. - Psychology
B.S. - Criminal Justice
A.S. - Administrative Management

Shoto-Advice:
"EC"
"CCU"
"Prayer"
"A Pass is a Pass"
"Slow and Steady - Wins the Race"
“Sometimes The Easy Way Is Not Always The Best Way”
"Passing a Petersons = Conquering a CLEP -or- Defeating a DSST"
"The 5 R's of Study: Repetition - Re-Enforces - Recognition - Recall - Retention"

"Always be Ready to Release Your Mind & Incorporate the Advice of Others into Your Plans."

"Studying is much like Boiling Water, if it is not Heated Constantly it will Once Again Become Cold Water."

Other Sources of CLEP & DSST Study Material

REA Books, Comex Books, Pass Your Class Guides, Standard Deviants DVD's, Petersons Practice Exams, Dummies Books, Idiot's Guides .

if they would just move into this millenium, and think about computerizing these test then they wouldn't have to grade them on tuesdays and thursdays because after each and every test, the computer program would do it for them. we can send a man to the moon almost 40 years ago, but we can't get computer generated dantes tests. go figure.

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Dawn
Taking the Road Less Traveled
The Journey of A Thousand Miles Starts with The First CLEP
BS-Psychology - Excelsior College
Enrolled in the School of Business, BS in Accounting
After MIS I'll be halfway there!
72 CLEP Credits, 21 DSST Credits, 25 ECE Credits (Including Inf Lit), 6 TESC Credits, 2 FEMA Credits = 126 Total
Withholding 6 Credits for Accounting = 120 for Psychology
12 credits completed toward my accounting degree

Bama,

If it is any consolation, I spoke with the staff at Thompson and they assured me that they (or the company) are actively working on transitioning DSST exams from paper based to computer based like the CLEPS and IT certifications. The person I spoke with could not give me an ETA but she said it will change over, she just could not say when. We will all probably be done with our first degree at least before they make the transition. This situation is really strange!

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charlie130
Gradual Student
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Hi, my name is Michael and I am...an ICERTaholic.

Enrolled: Excelsior BS MIS - Credits to date: 121
[Traditional Classes: 75, CLEP: 15, DSST 06, CERTS (IT): 25]
Cumulative GPA 3.8 - Concentration GPA 4.0
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Remaining tests:
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09.06 Org Behav
10.06 Ethics
11.06 Finance
MBA is next educational goal.
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Ditto. I have 4 Cleps and 1 Dantes (Statistics) left to complete my AS in Business @ Excelsior before I start on my BS. I had planned to take the Statistics last but on second thought I really do not want to have to play that waiting game to find out if I have my degree or not.

My Dantes results average close to a month to reach me. Excelsior gets the results before I do. Go figure!!!!!!!!

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Don G. -Atlanta, GA
A.S. Liberal Arts , Excelsior College,3/2007
B.S. Liberal Studies, Excelsior College,"On the Way"

"Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will"
--Dr. Robert Anthony

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Brian R. Fey Sr.
Psy.D - (Very Nearly and Insanely Enrolled)
M.S. - Psychology
B.S. - Criminal Justice
A.S. - Administrative Management

Shoto-Advice:
"EC"
"CCU"
"Prayer"
"A Pass is a Pass"
"Slow and Steady - Wins the Race"
“Sometimes The Easy Way Is Not Always The Best Way”
"Passing a Petersons = Conquering a CLEP -or- Defeating a DSST"
"The 5 R's of Study: Repetition - Re-Enforces - Recognition - Recall - Retention"

"Always be Ready to Release Your Mind & Incorporate the Advice of Others into Your Plans."

"Studying is much like Boiling Water, if it is not Heated Constantly it will Once Again Become Cold Water."

Other Sources of CLEP & DSST Study Material

REA Books, Comex Books, Pass Your Class Guides, Standard Deviants DVD's, Petersons Practice Exams, Dummies Books, Idiot's Guides .

Not necessarily. CLEP's, even on paper, are timed. Let's hope they stick to their current rules and just computerize it without adding timing. I hope they don't use CLEP software as a model, that thing is hideous.

Also, it's most likey a non-issue, but keep in mind that even the CBT is still graded back at the farm (so to speak). It's not likely that the scores would vary from the prelim report given when you're done, and if they did, it would signal a big issue to Pearson (Thompson), but it could happen... think SAT.

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Best of luck,
Joanne

31 hours traditional schooling
11 Microsoft exams, 1 Linux+, 2 ICCP's, 6 CLEP's, 12 DSSTs, and 6 ECE's

Degree Completed!
BS in Liberal Studies