Missed by One Point

[burbuja0512]

My goodness, I am so disappointed. I took Human Growth and Development this morning and missed my school's cutoff (63) by one point.

I don't know how I'm going to drive home, even (it's an hour back). I'm so bummed.

What do you guys do after "failing"?

AWWWWW.. I am so sorry that you missed the cutoff, but I agree with Linda in that it is unusually high. As you can see from the tests in my signature, I would have never graduated if COSC hadn't used the ACE recommended score for my tests.

I did fail Macroecon and scored a 48 when 50 is passing. It was embarrassing failing a test that I knew wasn't one of the tough ones and definitely a big bruise to my ego. I spent the next few weeks on Straighterline and that helped take my mind off of it. I also wondered if I would be able to pass other tests after that.... perhaps I had gotten lucky on the previous tests I had taken?

It was tough to get back on the wagon after failing, but it did improve my study habits after that. I don't think it sounds like you need to improve a lot, after all, by almost anyone's standards YOU PASSED. However, if your school has ridiculously high scoring, then you'll need to take study to the next level. Or, you may want to consider other ways to earn the same type of credit such as the self-paced classes from CSU or LSU. Are the passing scores for all of the DSST/CLEP that they accept so high?