CLEP Unethical?

[CrazyCarla]

Hi,

I am new here but have been reading and searching the forum a bit. I have been thinking about getting my degree through testing for a couple years but hadn't gotten up the courage to try it. I didnt do well in a classroom setting due to dysgraphia and frequent illness, but can study on my own very well, and tests I can handle. So it seems well made for me!

I don't have any transferable credits from other schools (except maybe a 1 credit PE/hiking course), my first college attempt I ended with a bunch of incompletes due to illness which turned into Incomplete/Fails because I never completed them. My next try, just a couple years ago I wanted to combine classroom classes with testing, but I was told that because I had attempted most of the general education classes and failed them 15 years ago, that no college would ever take any CLEP credits from me because it is unethical to get CLEP credit in a course I have ever attempted.

I tried to Google it a bit and didn't see anyone calling it "unethical" but I did see a few college websites saying they don't allow CLEP for already attempted courses, but they also have other rules that not all colleges would have the same. Not really proof either way if its considered unethical, or not.

So, While I still REALLY want to test for college I also don't want to do things that are academically "unethical". I don't want to cheat to get a degree! I want to earn it.

Does anyone know if it is cheating if the college allows it? Do these Big 3 schools allow this? I couldn't find it on the tesc website.