CLEP Test Scores and Credits

If you take the Computer Based Test (CBT), you will receive your score instantly (except for English composition with essay), but if you take the Paper-Pencil Based CLEP Test it will take between 2 to 3 weeks to get the result.

Your CLEP score has two parts “raw score” and “scaled score”.

Your CLEP Raw Score is based on the correct answers, and points will not be deducted for incorrect and unanswered questions.

The CLEP Scaled Score is (scaled 20 to 80) calculated by equating your raw score. It means your score will be adjusted for “slight differences in difficulty between test forms” to make sure the final score is independent from specific test form you took “or how well others did on the same test.”

CLEP scores are calculated independently and are not comparable to other scores or other tests such as SAT.

The minimum CLEP score required for each subject varies from exam to exam and from college to college. Credit-granting policy of each college or university determines the passing grade.

To help candidates ACE has prepared the following as a guide to the scores and corresponding credits:

Business

With a CLEP grade of 50 or better you can earn 3 credits in business law, computer information systems, management, and marketing. You can earn 6 credits in accounting.

Literature

With a CLEP grade of 50 or better you can earn 6 credits in American literature, analyzing and interpreting literature, English composition, English literature, freshman college composition, and humanities.

Foreign language

With a CLEP grade of 50 or better you can earn 6 credits in French I, German I, and Spanish I, and 12 credits in French II, German II, and Spanish II with a grade of 62, 63, and 66 respectively.

History & Social Science

With a CLEP grade of 50 or better you’ll be able to earn 3 credits in the following subject: American government, education psychology, History of the United States I & II, Human Growth & Development, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Psychology, Sociology, Western Civilization I & II, and 6 credits in Social Studies.

Science and Math

To earn 6 credits in Biology, Chemistry, College Math, and natural Science you need a grade of 50 or better. To earn 3 credits in Calculus, College Algebra, Trigonometry you also need a grade of 50 or better.

CLEP test for these subjects are offered at an introductory level (in opposed to advance levels), unless otherwise stated.

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