Getting Started On The Right Track

[cookderosa]

Hey Kevin,

Your off to a good start.

I suggest/submit that you not get to worked up about a degree plan right now. Why don't you pick 3-4 tests that will work well with almost any degree (general education type stuff). If you need all 60 credits then it's hard to go wrong with the first 12. Don't spend days you could have spent studying and passing an exam trying to figure out all the tests you'll need.

How about a couple of these....

CLEP Humanities (6 credits)
CLEP A&I Lit (6 credits) (my favorite easy exam!)
CLEP US History I or II
CLEP American Government
CLEP Sociology,
CLEP Psychology

In the meantime, keep reading the forums, and by then you'll have found several degree plans that should suit you.

Joe gives good advice. You only really need to know about 2 types of credits when you are looking at the AA degree. First, there are liberal arts credits, and then there are not liberal arts credits. Simply, liberal arts credits come from only these areas:
math
science (some computer, not all)
humanities
social science

and any other area will fall outside of liberal arts. Examples include business courses, the popular FEMA courses, trade classes, education classes, nursing, and many others.

As long as you pick your first few tests from the liberal arts selection, you will be sure that they will work. If you have not yet done so, go into the TESC website Thomas Edison State College and find the "publications" link then open the "college catalog" document. Around page 109 you will find 2 pages of exam equivalencies. CLEP and DANTES (AKA DSST). These pages are the authority on which tests fall into which slots.

Like Joe said, simply pick one of the exams and jump in. WORST case, your out $100 and best case you are off to a GREAT start!