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Heyy guys, this year I took 4 exams and passed 3 of them. The first one I passed was American Government with a 71 earlier in the year at a local clep lab. This passed week my clep lab finally started working so I had to cram 3 clep exams in 1 week. Which were bio, psych, and college algebrw because those were optional finals. I passed bio with 57, snd psych with 65, but fail short with algebra passing a 41 I am extremely disappointed in myself, but I know better things are to come. I wish I would have known earlier that I xould get reimbursed from the testing centers I would have took it earlier, but everything happens for a reason. Thank you for all the resourcea this year. This summer I will be taling sociology U.S. History 1+ 2 and maybe others to potential y get my associates. Thanks for the resources!!

I am a truck driver and dont have alot of free time at home to study, I busy almost 14hrs a day, but I spend alot of time driving so I can listen to stuff for hours. No class in particular really? I think I need like 20 credits to get an Associates degree. But can someone point me in the right direction?

Need it because a college lost my credit in pre-calculus from 10 years ago, so im missing a math pre-req for my masters im finishing up with. Because of said master degree and EOY job stuff, I just don't have the energy to study for this. I looked at some practice questions and it seems decently manageable but how stressful is the time management part of it

For those who did the College Composition CLEP, how was it? What did you do for the essay portion? I appreciate any information that can be given!

Besides Modern States?

I have genuinely been looking for hours, but everything is just so bullshit. The PDF's are just random 70 questions with no distinction, the CollegeBoard examiam thing, even when I paid for it out of desperation, is just random flashcards, and no site I have ever found has ever had more than like 5 questions at a time. I just want to take a practice test for the love of god thats accurate to the real one, but at this point I am starting to think it doesn't exist. Someone please help me out.

It was a really bad experience for me, especially since I didn't know what to study or where to study from, and I only had around a month to prepare. But somehow I managed to pass. It's funny that it was my first time ever using a calculator other than a Casio, and I only learned how to use the TI-80 calculator an hour before the test starting and I almost forgot everything during the exam.

What I used to study:

1. The Organic Chemistry Tutor

2. The CLEP exam preparation (study guide)

3. Some AI (I don't prefer it at all)

I didn't have any plan at all — I just studied topics following the OCT website's list for calculus and tried to solve as many questions as possible.

And i end up with 62/80

I am LIVID right now!

I passed the multiple choice test with a 457. I recorded my speech portion and went to submit it but then received an error. I don’t remember it verbatim but it said something about an error with the audio. I called Prometric, got transferred 3 different times, and then was told “John” wasn’t in and that’s the only person who could help me.

Has anyone experienced this before? It did allow me to submit the test. My proctor says to have faith that the audio did upload, but I really don’t want to wait weeks and weeks just to be failed due to my audio.

Any advice is greatly appreciated. *I did test my audio before starting the official test by the way.

I've gone back to school for an Associates of accounting and I've found roughly 9 tests that my school will take that work towards my program. I'm using Modern States and just signed up for Khan Academy (for math specifically). Any other good, preferably free options to study?

And any insights on how hard these tests are? I wasn't in AP or IB in high-school but I did skip two grades so I'm fairly confident even though its been 20 years since I last attended college.

College Composition

College Algebra

Financial Accounting

Introduction to Business Law

Information Systems

Principles of Management

Principles of Macroeconomics

Biology

Principles of Marketing

This may seem daunting at first for those who need a lot of college credit quickly, but it honestly was not that bad. I ended up taking Macroeconomics, Intro to Management, Intro to Marketing, U.S. Government, Intro to Psychology, and Educational Psychology. I used basically the same system for all of them, and it worked well since I scored 60+ on every exam.

The method I used was pretty simple. First, I would find a YouTube playlist for the exam (most exams have one). Then I would watch all of the videos in the playlist. I personally didn’t take notes because I felt like it slowed me down and dragged out the process.

Once I finished the videos, I would take a practice test. You can usually find practice tests for most CLEPs on Reddit or online somewhere. After taking the practice test, I would go through every question and identify my weak areas. I used ChatGPT or Gemini (if you don’t have ChatGPT Pro for unlimited uploads) to help explain why I got questions wrong and to break down concepts I didn’t understand.

I would review every missed question multiple times until I fully understood why the correct answer was right and why my answer was wrong. Then I would retake the practice test and aim for at least a 90%.

After that, I would ask ChatGPT to summarize my weak areas and turn them into a prompt for NotebookLM to create an AI podcast focused only on the topics I struggled with. I also watched extra YouTube videos specifically covering the concepts I was weakest in.

Once I felt more comfortable, I would take the Modern States practice test to get the CLEP voucher. I’d recommend scoring at least an 85% there because I personally felt the Modern States questions were easier than the actual CLEP exam.

After that, I would purchase the official CLEP study guide from College Board and take the official practice test. In my experience, if you could score around a 60% raw score on the official practice test, you were probably in good shape to pass the real CLEP exam.

Then I would repeat the same review process again by going question by question through the official practice test and fully understanding every mistake. After that, I usually felt ready to take the exam.

Depending on the subject, this whole process usually took me about a week or less while studying around 2–2.5 hours per day (3 hours max). For example, Macroeconomics took me around 2 weeks, while U.S. Government only took me about 3 days because I found it much easier and I’m planning on going to law school after undergrad.

I hope this helps some of you. Other Reddit posts really helped me while I was studying for CLEPs, so I wanted to share what worked for me in case it helps someone else too.

Other resources I used was freeclep prep they have some pretty good flash cards to help and practice test I heard although I didn’t take any of the practice tests.

If you have any questions I will do my best to respond and help anyone out.

I have gotten several private dm requests. While I am humbled that people seem to think that I can help them pass, or sometimes, it seems; give them a magical answer.

There are CLEP exam takers private messaging me. I don’t mind at all. I love to help when and wherever I can. Sometimes tho, they are messages from people that are hours or a day away from taking their test, haven’t studied and then ask me if I think they can pass the test.

I am just a lady who happened upon some resources while studying for my CLEP exams and discovered other free resources in that search. Since then, I dig deeper when I have time for more free resources and continue to repost and share those resources when and wherever I can.

FOR PEOPLE THAT PROCRASTINATE ON THEIR EXAMS AND THEN WANT A MAGICAL CURE:

#1 AND MOST IMPORTANT!! Try to reschedule the exam. Even if u have already rescheduled several times for free with your voucher and Collegeboard wants u to pay, I have a post about how to cancel your existing registration and get a new code from modern states. Let me know if this is something u r needing or look on r/clep for the post.

#2 if you have waited until the clock has run out and don’t have anymore study time, try the practice exam for your CLEP subject from this folder:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vNi3gyY7b6P3gU0hXA4HvCmcS87q6IRz

A lot of people are using these exams and the ones from the free REA CLEP exam books on archive.org with ChatGPT or other ai tools to study for their exam. You may be able to study that way. There are plenty of posts where people explain exactly how they do this.

#3 THE SEARCH TOOL, I have BEGGED THE r/CLEP MODS to pin my post or anything they want to post about this tool like other subs have. In fact, when there is a question repeated over and over on other Reddit subs, people are starting to answer “this has been answered already.”

I don’t want to be rude or condescending but you will get the “instant gratification” of an answer to your question ALOT faster using the search tool.

As I ALWAYS SAY, I would never discourage questions. Or like they used to say “there are no stupid questions.. only crazy things that happen cause no one bothered to ask.”

It’s just that you can get your answer and not have to wait..

I am not a genius nor do I have a magic talent for CLEP. I just happened to waste a lot of time finding free resources for the gratification of a “thank you” on social media for posting something useful … :-) (that is a joke but really.. I just want to help people and believe that there should be free study materials in order to help make education happen.)

Now that I have blathered about this long enough, I am still here to help where and when I can.

Hello guys, I have a very limited time frame like 4 days to past Clep macroeconomics, I need some help please. Im desperate.

My school made me sign up for this college algebra clep andi failed it I got a 44. Does this affect anything like my courses im 14 freshmen in hs right now i took algebra 1 didnt take geometry and im taking algebra 2 right now

I took the Biology CLEP today and I passed with a 53!

Definitely was one of the harder ones I've taken. 90 minutes was definitely not enough time, and I had to speed through a lot of the questions. However, it definitely is passable. I studied off & on for over a month.

I used the following resources:

• Modern States
• Free Clep Prep
• Khan Academy
• Practice Tests that PAT supplied

Thanks for everyone that provided resources (looking at you PAT). This was my final CLEP I needed to take.

I made a post very recently about passing the Biology CLEP and that was my final CLEP. However, I have two more tests to take before I officially taken every test that is eligible to grant me credit for my degree. The only difference is that the tests I need to take are DSSTs not CLEPs.

I've taken only two DSSTs in the past (Intro to World Religions & Human Resource Management). I'm not as familiar with DSSTs as I am with CLEPs. I took those DSSTs while I was in the service, but now that I'm a veteran, I don't have access to the study materials that I used while I was in the service.

Now, I know this is more of a CLEP subreddit, but I wanted to get a layout of what FREE resources are available for me to prep for DSST tests. The tests that I need to take are:

• Management Information Systems
• Principles of Public Speaking

Right now, I'm only aware of one study resource and that is Free Clep Prep. Since these tests are DSST, Modern States is no longer a resource. Does anyone have good free study materials and practice tests to prepare for these DSSTs?

Hello! I was wondering, has anyone done a lot of CLEP exams and gotten very ahead in high school? How was the experience and would you recommend it? Thank you!

I’ve take 3 cleps so far. I got a 56 on the analyzing literature, 57 on American Literature and a 71 on US History 1. I didn’t study for analyzing literature at all. And I studied for about 2 days straight on American Literature and Us history 1z I need one more clep to fulfill an elective spot and finish my bachelors degree. I just need something that is easier to understand and I can pass with about 2 days of studying. Thoughts?