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EASIEST CLEP/DSST for elective credit... - jessikalauren - 05-11-2017
Sorry if this is lazy of me but I'm 30, working full-time and trying to get a degree as quickly as I can.
(I'm actually getting two bachelor's degrees, BA-Management and BS-Business.)
I have roughly 24 elective credits still needed. My school accepts all CLEP & DSST exams so which ones would you say were the easiest to take, that I could hopefully blow through this summer?
Thank in advance!
Jessika
EASIEST CLEP/DSST for elective credit... - Ideas - 05-11-2017
For CLEP, Analyzing & Interpreting Literature is very easy for some people. I am going to take it with only 3 hours of studying.
Intro Psychology and Intro Sociology are easy for most people.
Otherwise, what are you good at? Math? History?
EASIEST CLEP/DSST for elective credit... - Ideas - 05-11-2017
Spanish, French, or German if you had at least a year of any of them
The health DSST is really easy. Also the computing one asks questions like what is a printer? LOL.
Think about what you actually need. History?
You aren't going to TESU?
EASIEST CLEP/DSST for elective credit... - jessikalauren - 05-11-2017
Ideas Wrote:Spanish, French, or German if you had at least a year of any of them
The health DSST is really easy. Also the computing one asks questions like what is a printer? LOL.
Think about what you actually need. History?
You aren't going to TESU?
I'm not going to TESU, I discovered the world of CLEP & DSST after I started at Golden Gate University. It's super expensive but I really like it so I'm going to stick with it and take as many CLEP/DSST exams as I can.
I have other requirements to be covered by exams - history, algebra, accounting, finance, etc. Just trying to think of other *easy* ones to take to knock out the elective credits.
Oh and I'm already planning on taking Spanish - 9 credits plus now I'm bilingual?? Sign me up!
EASIEST CLEP/DSST for elective credit... - jessikalauren - 05-11-2017
Ideas Wrote:For CLEP, Analyzing & Interpreting Literature is very easy for some people. I am going to take it with only 3 hours of studying.
Intro Psychology and Intro Sociology are easy for most people.
Otherwise, what are you good at? Math? History?
Thanks! I took A&T Literature already, for my literature requirement.
I am NOT good at history, and I have to take most math & business exams already for my major requirements. I was thinking Here's to your Health and Substance Abuse had relevant information I could actually use. Can you think of others that seemed so "common sense" you could have taken with little studying?
EASIEST CLEP/DSST for elective credit... - sarg123 - 05-11-2017
Intro to Management and Intro to Marketing are both considered the two easiest cleps.
Also, College Composition, if you're fairly decent in English. I also liked Social Science and History. It's easy if you have taken some history and psych classes before. If you have a lot of knowledge of Arts, books, or the theater, Humanities may be fairly easy, as well.
Some of these cleps are worth 6 credits each, so check your college to see what their equivalencies are.
EASIEST CLEP/DSST for elective credit... - sarg123 - 05-11-2017
jessikalauren Wrote:Thanks! I took A&T Literature already, for my literature requirement.
I am NOT good at history, and I have to take most math & business exams already for my major requirements. I was thinking Here's to your Health and Substance Abuse had relevant information I could actually use. Can you think of others that seemed so "common sense" you could have taken with little studying?
I personally thought Human Growth and Development was mostly common sense, but then again, I do have small children so I'm more familiar with the basics. If you have taken Psychology, then I thought Educational Psychology would be really easy to pick up, especially if you have ever been around small children.
EASIEST CLEP/DSST for elective credit... - dfrecore - 05-11-2017
Here's a link that may help - they rank the exams by level of difficulty:
Clep Difficulty List - Free-Clep-Prep.com
DSST Difficulty List - Free-Clep-Prep.com
I took Management and Marketing CLEP's, and Computers and Personal Finance DSST's. I passed them all without studying, and thought they were fairly easy, but then again, I did have some background (either work experience or courses I'd taken) so that influenced how I did.
I took classes at GGU myself, and really enjoyed it - they are a very good school. BUT, they are extremely expensive ($660/cr - YIKES!). You might want to consider taking a few courses from them, but ultimately taking the rest of your courses inexpensively and transferring to TESU to graduate. It would save you MANY thousands of dollars.
Good luck.