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For those of you who have used Clep tests did you have your child take it right after the class or in their senior year? My 10th grader is taking biology now. The testing here is in the spring. Should he take it this spring or wait, review, and take it later?
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You should take them as soon as you complete the course. Students can take them as early as 9th Grade. My current senior chose not too as the schools she wanted to attend did not accept CLEP (she did SAT II subject tests instead) but my next high schoolers provisionally plan on:
West Civ I - 9th grade
Chemistry CLEP or SAT II - 9th Grade
West Civ 2 - 10th Grade
Bio - CLEP or SAT II - 10th Grade
US History I and II - 11th
US Govt - 12th
Possibly Economics - 12th
There is a whole website with free CLEP lesson plans and another with practice tests - cannot find them right now, but will post when I do.
Our local test centers are open year round for CLEPs - you can just go in at any time and do them.
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What Marilyn said. :)
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I emailed our clep testing site here and they offer tests once per month at 12:30. You just need to register beforehand. The cost is $25 to the site and $80 to clep. Is that what you've had to pay?
There are a lot of resources out there to help prepare, which is nice. How have your kids done on these tests?
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Marilyn, what did you use to prepare for the sat 2 tests in science???
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Kristie 4 wrote:
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Hi Kristie - my daughter did the actual science classes as external classes with a wonderful homeschool mom locally. The teacher used Abeka with supplementary Catholic resources.
For the SAT prep my daughter used the following books:
Biology - Princeton Review: Cracking the SAT Biology. She also used the McGraw Hill Biology SAT prep. And she did extra practice tests on Spark Notes. On the day of the test you decide whether you are choosing between the E or M tests.
Chemistry - Princeton Review: Cracking the SAT Chemistry. Also Chemistry (100+series) by Joan Distasio. Again extra practice tests on Spark Notes.
She will not be doing the SAT for Physics.
Hope this is helpful.
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mooreboyz wrote:
I emailed our clep testing site here and they offer tests once per month at 12:30. You just need to register beforehand. The cost is $25 to the site and $80 to clep. Is that what you've had to pay?
There are a lot of resources out there to help prepare, which is nice. How have your kids done on these tests?
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I think that this similar to what we would pay.
I have not had any children take them yet.
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Thank-you Marilyn- that is good to know. We have the Princeton book but my dd is doing Apologia and now is using the Mader book. We will see...
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So, is the decision about whether or not to take CLEP tests based on whether the colleges to which you are applying will give CLEP credit?
I'm just wondering because my oldest (in 10th grade) pursues a lot of knowledge somewhat unconventionally. I've had it in my head that he can use standardized testing (CLEP or SAT II) to prove what he knows... thereby lending some credence to our transcript. So we're not just looking for future credit. What would be your recommendation then?
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Take the exams for validation. You can hope to get some credit for it too, but there is no guarantee that the schools that do or don't today will or won't in 2-4 years when kids are applying. This is true for any of the options. Sat2, AP CLEP or DSST.
For that matter, students may be likely to change schools or degree programs which would change what is or isn't accepted toward their degree.
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I received an email about CLEP tests from Lee Binz, the Home Scholar this morning - here is the link to her article about CLEP tests
Where do CLEP tests go on a transcript
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My 10th grader took the American Government test after taking the Homeschool Connections class and studying with the Clep guide (cost about $10-20). Schools accept the credit in different ways--some for pre-reqs and some just for undergrad credit. The costs mentioned above are what we payed as well.
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Yes. That's what mine look like. For example:
Honors Western Civ 1 (CLEP score 68) ---- #of credits ----- grade %
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We have used CLEPS with 5 of our kids so far. The Chemistry is near impossible. Kuddos to anyone who has passed that one! The kids found economics difficult also, but not in the same league as the chemistry. (Two boys graduated college with engineering and biochem degrees and they told my daughter to skip the chem CLEP. She didn't listen and failed miserably. It's difficult.
Resources we have used:
Teaching Company lectures
AP study guides
CLEP study guides
We study the material and use CLEPs sometimes as "final exams". If the college doesn't use them, they look good on the transcript since we don't use an outside source for documentation.
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For studying for the clep tests I see our library carries the clep official study guide which has sample questions from every test. I also see clep sells specific guides for each test. Does anyone know if there is much difference between these? Also, do they change much year to year. Our library has the 2012 version. Would this be satisfactory or am I best to get the current version for the specific test (biology this year)?
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I've heard that the REA guides are really good. Here are a couple of online prep resources for Biology Homeschool College USA - Biology and Biology CLEP exam
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StephanieA wrote:
We have used CLEPS with 5 of our kids so far. The Chemistry is near impossible. Kuddos to anyone who has passed that one! The kids found economics difficult also, but not in the same league as the chemistry. (Two boys graduated college with engineering and biochem degrees and they told my daughter to skip the chem CLEP. She didn't listen and failed miserably. It's difficult.
Resources we have used:
Teaching Company lectures
AP study guides
CLEP study guides
We study the material and use CLEPs sometimes as "final exams". If the college doesn't use them, they look good on the transcript since we don't use an outside source for documentation.
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Thanks for posting Stephanie. I figure that we too will use them as "support for GPA's and SAT's" - a kind of external validation of our homeschool studies - even if the colleges do not give credit.
Interesting about the Chem - I know that my dd found the Chem SAT II much trickier than the Biology.
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