Seeking advice on GRE Psych vs. ECE exams

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This is my first time posting on this site, but I've been reading it and receiving invaluable information and encouragement. Thanks so much!

In May 2008 I enrolled in Excelsior with only 7 old credits to pursue a BS in psychology. I'm now up to 99 credits and originally planned to use the GRE Psych exam to get 30 credits for my major requirements with a minimum of expense. An advisor is now telling me that the GRE Psych would duplicate the 6 Social Sciences & History credits. Fortunately I just passed the CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature which makes up for the 6 lost credits. HOWEVER...the more I read about the agony which is the GRE Psych...the more I'm wondering if I should skip the GRE and take the additional 7 exams (CLEP, DSST and ECE) to round out my psychology credits.

The GRE is $130 for 30 credits if(!) I can manage to pass at 80% or better. Or I could spend $1300 to take the individual exams; CLEP Intro to Educ. Psych, DSST Life span Development, ECE Abnormal Psych, Cultural Diversity, Juvenile Delinquency, Psych of Adulthood and Aging, and Social Psych.

For those of you who have taken the GRE Psych, is the amount of time and study and grief over this test worth it? Or should I just scrape up the money and take the individual exams?

Thanks for your advice.

Completed:
ECE Organizational Behavior
Research Methods in Psych
Ethics; Theory & Practice
English Comp
Foundations of Gerontology

CLEP Social Sciences & History
Humanities
Natural Sciences
College Math
Intro to Psych
Info Sys. & Computer App.
American Govt
Principles of Management
Intro Business Law
Intro Sociology
History of US 1 & 2
Analyzing & Interpreting Lit.

DSST Principles of Supervision
Environment & Humanity
Drug & Alcohol Abuse
Human Resource Mgmt
Here's to your Health

UExcel Intro to Political Science