Mansu007

Hello!

I have been studying CLEP Bio and Chem with AP materials.

I often heard that InstantCert CLEP is really good and passing is guaranteed.

Is that online program worth the subscription? Does it guarantee score range of 75~80 if

I master the materials presented by that website?


Also I really have questions on AP materials being used for CLEP. Are AP Bio and AP Chem

materials like Barrons are good for studying for CLEP too? Also has anyone used Schaum's

College Outline series?

BuckeyeatHeart

Instacert does NOT guarantee that you will pass -- that would be a different online group, one that I would not suggest to you. Nobody can guarantee that you will get a score of 75-80 unless they stole the questions that they know will be on the exam. Also, I hope you realize that a perfect score on the CLEP exams is 80. Their scoring is a scaled scoring, not a percent.

Instacert uses a flashcard system of study - these flashcards are not meant to suggest these are the questions you will see on your exam. Rather they allow the testing candidate to see if they really do know the material that will be covered, how prepared are you for the areas that will be on the test.

Let me suggest another website to you (if I didn't already) -- www. free-clep-prep.com -- as this site has free study guides along with suggested online resources.

You keep questioning whether AP material is good to use. Does this material cover what the CLEP website says will be on the biology and chemistry exams? If it covers some of the subjects, but not all, you will need to add in some other resource. Freeclepprep and Instacert (check out the General Education forum and do a search on biology and chemistry) have good suggestions for study materials.

Mansu007

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Thank you very much for the detailed answer!

By the way, I know that CLEP is computer-based exam, but I heard one can order specialized

paper exam. Is this true?

BuckeyeatHeart

I do not believe that you can order special paper exams, but there might be test centers that still only deliver paper exams. I thought that I had heard CLEP was doing away with this though. On the other hand, if a candidate had a need for a certain accommodation that would require them to take a paper-based exam, maybe that would allow a test center to order them. The best thing would be to talk with the test center where you hope to take your test as they could find out for certain.

BuckeyeatHeart

Mansu, are you now posting on IC's general education forum about taking the Biology and Chemistry CLEP exams? If not, someone certainly sounds like you! If this is indeed you, please take the posters' comments seriously as these people have already gone through much of the studying and test taking that you are about to begin. Just remember, if your university has a CLEP policy and they grant credit for a passing score of '50', this equates to 'C' work, so this does not mean you need to "ace" the test.