Okay...I just spoke with someone at a testing center and I was trying to schedule my MIS exam for tomorrow. She told me that MIS as well as 11 other exams are currently being "Beta" tested on paper ONLY. I'm not sure exactly what that means, but I think it might have something to do with a possible breach of the DSST system and thus they are reissuing new exams for some specific tests.

The long and short of it is...this sucks...because I have no desire to wait how ever long it takes to get test results back by paper exams. She told me that this test along with the other 11 will not be avaliable by computer until July
1st.

I am curious to hear if anyone else has heard anything about this...I also really hate to be a ginny pig on a new exam...

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Excelsior BS - General Business - 2008
Enrolled at Jacksonville State University - MBA - complete in 2010 (60% complete)

121 credits...ALL DONE BABY!!!

54 credits transfered in from prior college
54 credits by examination
6 credits from community college
3 credits from CSU-Pueblo (Operations Management)
4 credits for Information Literacy and Business Strategy from Excelsior

CLEP:
Principles of Macroeconomics (64)
Principles of Microeconomics (61)
Principles of Marketing (66)
Principles of Management (72)
Info Systems and Comp Applications (57)
Introductory Business Law (65)
Social Sciences & History (61)
DSST:
Principles of Supervision (58)
Principles of Statistics (67)
Introduction to Computing (60)
Principles of Financial Accounting (56)
Principles of Finance (55)
Money and Banking (52)
Ethics in America (66)
Management Information Systems (58)
ECE:
Ethics: Theory and Practice (B)
Organizational Behavior (C)

GMAT: 600

Hi, bmills --

Don't know if this has anything to do with your situation and the "beta test" but I was reviewing the MIS fact sheet yesterday and the exam has been updated for 2008 (which is a good thing IMHO).

Do you happen to know what the other ten tests are? I am taking Statistics and Finance soon, and really would not be thrilled if I had to wait a month for my results.

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BSBA Marketing Thomas Edison State College-63/120

College Math-66, College Algebra-64, Analyzing & Interpreting Literature-67, U.S. History I-66, U.S. History II-61, Information Systems & Computer Applications-59, Biology-61, DSST Introduction to Business-61, Introductory Sociology-65, Introductory Psychology-52, Principles of Microeconomics-54, Principles of Macroeconomics-47, Principles of Marketing-68, Financial Accounting-47, Introductory Business Law-62, Principles of Management-70, DSST Principles of Supervision-64, DSST Organizational Behavior-68, English Literature-61

Stats was one...Personal Finance was also one, but I do not think Principles of Finance was...

__________________
Excelsior BS - General Business - 2008
Enrolled at Jacksonville State University - MBA - complete in 2010 (60% complete)

121 credits...ALL DONE BABY!!!

54 credits transfered in from prior college
54 credits by examination
6 credits from community college
3 credits from CSU-Pueblo (Operations Management)
4 credits for Information Literacy and Business Strategy from Excelsior

CLEP:
Principles of Macroeconomics (64)
Principles of Microeconomics (61)
Principles of Marketing (66)
Principles of Management (72)
Info Systems and Comp Applications (57)
Introductory Business Law (65)
Social Sciences & History (61)
DSST:
Principles of Supervision (58)
Principles of Statistics (67)
Introduction to Computing (60)
Principles of Financial Accounting (56)
Principles of Finance (55)
Money and Banking (52)
Ethics in America (66)
Management Information Systems (58)
ECE:
Ethics: Theory and Practice (B)
Organizational Behavior (C)

GMAT: 600

Bmills Thanks for the information and sorry to hear about computer versus paper for your next exam. Did she tell you what the 11 exams are that have to be administered by paper for now?

INWE - I just called DSST direct and spoke with "David". I told him I wanted to verify that the Principles of Finanance and Money and Banking exams were still available via computer versus exams temporarily available as paper only.

After a long pause, he told me that those two exams are still being administered by computer.

I also asked for a copy of the tables for POF and was told that the Testing Center had to request them by fax - hopefully they will be clean copies...it sure would be nice to see them ahead of time to make sure they are the right ones and that they can be read OK.

If anyone hears any different about these two exams, please let me know!

Thanks!

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CLEPS/DANTES ATTEMPTED/PASSED -21 Classes credited:
- Human/Cultural Geography (SOC300) 69/Nov 08
- Intro to Business Law (LEG100) 73/Nov 08
- Astronomy (HUM300) 68/Nov 08
- Human Resource Management (BUS310) 73/Jul 08
- Money and Banking (ECO320) 64/Jun 08
- Principles of Finance (FIN100) 67/May 08
- Principles of Macroeconomics (ECO100) 75/Apr 08
- Principles of Marketing 74/Apr 08
- Introduction to World Religions (HUM400) 78/Apr 08
- Analyzing & Interpreting Lit 69/Mar 08 (6 credits)
- Introductory Psychology 74/Feb 08
- Introductory Sociology 73/Jan 08
- Principles of Mgmt 75/Dec 05
- English Comp (cold) 59/Sep 05 (6 credits)
- Information Systems & Computer Apps 72/Sep 05
- College French Language 75/Jun 05 (12 credits)

+Traditional Credits Earned 2005-2008: 17 classes - last 3 traditional classes completed Oct/08
ALL DONE NOV 08. Degree received: BS in Business Administration, minor in Management, SCL. Saved $$$$$ and Time - Thanks to InstantCert.

Thanks for this info. I was able to complete my DSST online this morning, after not being able to last week. Apparently there have been two recent updates that were sent out to DSST online testing centers and my testing center did not receive the second email, which caused my issue of not being able to take my exam last Thursday. Something is definitely going on with DSST's!

I plan to take Principles of Financial Accounting in a few weeks...I'm going to call my testing center to make sure I will be able to take in online.

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TECEP's passed:
English Composition 102
Technical Writing
Psychology of Women
Word Processing Fundamentals
Introduction to Computer Information Systems

CLEP's passed:
Analyzing and Interpreting Literature - 60
Principles of Management - 71
Principles of Marketing - 67
Principles of Macroeconomics - 54
Principles of Microeconomics - 57
Introduction to Business Law- 65

DSST's passed:
Principles of Supervision - 59
Introduction to Business - 63
Principles of Financial Accounting- 54

FEMA Credits earned: 15

ALEKS Intro to Stats completed 3/10/09

ASBA - TESC - 3/6/09
BSBA - general management in progress

Working on: PF Business and Technical Writing

Thanks Wendy - that's good to know. Only one person at my local testing center is good about following up on that type of stuff - I always try and schedule my exams when he is working so that I don't end up in the situation you did (which also happened to me on a CLEP earlier this year) - the other person [the manager] just could not get the Admin login to work - local user error! and I had to leave and come back the next day.

All the best for tomorrow's exam.

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CLEPS/DANTES ATTEMPTED/PASSED -21 Classes credited:
- Human/Cultural Geography (SOC300) 69/Nov 08
- Intro to Business Law (LEG100) 73/Nov 08
- Astronomy (HUM300) 68/Nov 08
- Human Resource Management (BUS310) 73/Jul 08
- Money and Banking (ECO320) 64/Jun 08
- Principles of Finance (FIN100) 67/May 08
- Principles of Macroeconomics (ECO100) 75/Apr 08
- Principles of Marketing 74/Apr 08
- Introduction to World Religions (HUM400) 78/Apr 08
- Analyzing & Interpreting Lit 69/Mar 08 (6 credits)
- Introductory Psychology 74/Feb 08
- Introductory Sociology 73/Jan 08
- Principles of Mgmt 75/Dec 05
- English Comp (cold) 59/Sep 05 (6 credits)
- Information Systems & Computer Apps 72/Sep 05
- College French Language 75/Jun 05 (12 credits)

+Traditional Credits Earned 2005-2008: 17 classes - last 3 traditional classes completed Oct/08
ALL DONE NOV 08. Degree received: BS in Business Administration, minor in Management, SCL. Saved $$$$$ and Time - Thanks to InstantCert.

Here's To Your Health and Criminal Justice are two others that I had to take paper-based within the past couple weeks due to this beta testing. Drug and Alcohol Abuse was another of the 11 or so. The lady at my testing center said only select TC's were chosen for this beta testing, and they're doing it until June 30th. I'm taking my last exam (Principles of Supervision) this Thursday!... hopefully I won't run into any trouble!

OK, it's good to know that it's not a matter of exam security. It's a little weird that they would call it beta testing as the name implies public testing, which can be done faster online (no reason to go paper based).

It mostly likely means that centers selected for beta testing have the new online versions while others will only continue to offer the previous version on paper until the beta testing is successful and complete.

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Excelsior BS - MIS (113 credits in the bank)
Courses (*still*) in progress:
Penn Foster English Composition

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When I was at a testing center on Saturday they told me it is because of security. Apparently someone stole some tests which is why they are putting out paper tests and updating the computer tests.