Does Failing Dsst exams affect GPA?
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Does Failing Dsst exams affect GPA?
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01-21-2015, 07:58 PM
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but i never tested out of classes before so i really don't know how the grading works. I have a decent GPA and don't want to mess it up because i tried to test out.
Thanks
01-21-2015, 08:08 PM
Exams not accepted for credit cannot affect GPA. However, at some schools (including Excelsior), a low pass on the 2-digit score exams is actually worse than failing, at least for GPA purposes.
CPA (WA), CFA Level III Candidate
Currently pursuing: ALM, Data Science - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (12/48, on hold for CFA/life commitments) MBA, Finance/Accounting - Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2015 BSBA, General Management - Thomas Edison State College, Trenton, NJ, 2012
01-21-2015, 09:04 PM
Your test scores - ACT/AP/CLEP/DSST/SAT - are your business. If you don't send the score report to a school, the school will never know. When you order a CLEP or DSST transcript, they only report the scores you authorize them to send. If you don't want the school to know what you made, just don't send it to them. Generally speaking schools don't care and there are no adverse academic consequences to a failing credit by examination score. This isn't worth worrying about.
63 CLEP Sociology
75 CLEP U.S. History II 63 CLEP College Algebra 70 CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 68 DSST Technical Writing 72 CLEP U.S. History I 77 CLEP College Mathematics 470 DSST Statistics 53 CLEP College Composition 73 CLEP Biology 54 CLEP Chemistry 77 CLEP Information Systems and Computer Applications
01-21-2015, 09:40 PM
I don't think there are any exams left that are anything other than C/NC or P/F on college transcripts. The last few DSST's that COSC provided grades for are no longer available.
01-21-2015, 11:55 PM
hightecrebel Wrote:I don't think there are any exams left that are anything other than C/NC or P/F on college transcripts. The last few DSST's that COSC provided grades for are no longer available. So DSST scores applied to Excelsior only show as Pass/Fail - not a letter grade? I would love to eliminate my "letter-grade stress syndrome":willynilly: with a relaxing P/F exam!
"I dwell in Possibility." Emily Dickinson
2011-12 CLEP Int Psych - 75 / H G & D - 69 / Ed Psych - 72 / Am Lit - 80 / A & I Lit - 75 / Eng Lit - 73 2012-13 SL Eng Comp I - 95.3% P / Eng Comp II - 97.5% P 2014 EC/UEXCEL Ab Psych - A / Soc Psych - A / Psych A & A - A / Gerontology - A / Info Lit - P 2015 BYU Sport Psych - A / DSST Sub Abuse - 470 / Int World Rel - 481 / H T Y H - 465 / Tor College HIS 301 - 81% P 2016 EC LA498 Capstone - A 1991 AA Liberal Arts USNY Regents College 2016 BSLA Magna Cum Laude Excelsior College - A 5 year journey COMPLETED! 2017-2019 Study.com Certs. - Am Lit/Brit Lit/Shakespeare/Poetry Review Shmoop - Shakespeare's Plays/Shakespeare in Context/Women's Lit
01-22-2015, 12:03 AM
SuZQ2 Wrote:So DSST scores applied to Excelsior only show as Pass/Fail - not a letter grade? I would love to eliminate my "letter-grade stress syndrome":willynilly: with a relaxing P/F exam!That part of their website is conveniently down at the moment (btw, how can they be so big and have such a terrible website?) but last I checked, DSSTs on the 2-digit scale were all assigned letter grades.
CPA (WA), CFA Level III Candidate
Currently pursuing: ALM, Data Science - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (12/48, on hold for CFA/life commitments) MBA, Finance/Accounting - Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2015 BSBA, General Management - Thomas Edison State College, Trenton, NJ, 2012
01-22-2015, 12:15 AM
As of 1 Jan the last of the 2-digit DSST's have been pulled and can not be taken. I've looked, but nobody I've found offers letter grades for the three digit exams.
01-22-2015, 01:07 AM
Thanks for the reply everyone, it let's me breathe a little knowing i can fail the exam and let it not affect my GPA. I'm a little paranoid because in order to graduate i need 18 credits if i can knock out a class or two it makes my final semester much more bearable.
01-22-2015, 01:28 AM
hightecrebel Wrote:As of 1 Jan the last of the 2-digit DSST's have been pulled and can not be taken. I've looked, but nobody I've found offers letter grades for the three digit exams.Good point. Good thing I got my easy A's out of them a couple years ago!
CPA (WA), CFA Level III Candidate
Currently pursuing: ALM, Data Science - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (12/48, on hold for CFA/life commitments) MBA, Finance/Accounting - Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2015 BSBA, General Management - Thomas Edison State College, Trenton, NJ, 2012
01-22-2015, 06:17 PM
Excelsior Credit-By-Exam Catalog - pages 28-29, all three-digit DSST's are pass/fail (need score of 400+ to pass).
http://documents.excelsior.edu/document/...m-catalog/
"I dwell in Possibility." Emily Dickinson
2011-12 CLEP Int Psych - 75 / H G & D - 69 / Ed Psych - 72 / Am Lit - 80 / A & I Lit - 75 / Eng Lit - 73 2012-13 SL Eng Comp I - 95.3% P / Eng Comp II - 97.5% P 2014 EC/UEXCEL Ab Psych - A / Soc Psych - A / Psych A & A - A / Gerontology - A / Info Lit - P 2015 BYU Sport Psych - A / DSST Sub Abuse - 470 / Int World Rel - 481 / H T Y H - 465 / Tor College HIS 301 - 81% P 2016 EC LA498 Capstone - A 1991 AA Liberal Arts USNY Regents College 2016 BSLA Magna Cum Laude Excelsior College - A 5 year journey COMPLETED! 2017-2019 Study.com Certs. - Am Lit/Brit Lit/Shakespeare/Poetry Review Shmoop - Shakespeare's Plays/Shakespeare in Context/Women's Lit |
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