CLEP Tests

I had never heard of these exams, but they sound like an interesting education option for those looking to earn undergraduate college credit. Apparently you don't need to pay tuition on credits that you earn from taking these tests. So you can basically test out of certain classes freshman and sophomore level classes that you would need to take anyway.

clipped from www.examiner.com Earning credits through the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) In today’s fast-paced and competitive world a college degree is essential to finding a career, yet also extremely costly in many cases. An increasingly popular program among students and intellectuals looking to gain an advantage in obtaining a college degree is CLEP. General Information on CLEP The CLEP test offers a large variety of courses (34 in total), ranging in subjects such as: business, literature, foreign language, history/social sciences, science, and mathematics. More impressively, the college credits offered by the CLEP are accepted at nearly 3,000 colleges and universities nationwide. Who is the CLEP for? Other groups include home-schooled students, working adult students with hectic agendas, international students (looking to earn credit from the Foreign Language section of the CLEP), and military service members and veterans.