Does Excelsior assign grades to CLEP exams?

Hello,

I know that in the past, when CLEP was paper&pencil, Excelsior did assign grades to CLEP exams. However, I've heard that as CLEP switched to CBT administration many exams are rated on a pass/fail basis. My question is, are there still any CLEP examinations that have grades assigned to them by Excelsior?

Thank you,

Dennis Siemens

 

I took two CLEP CBT's (Intro to Psych and Analyzing and Int. Lit.) and Excelsior gave letter grades for both.

Look around on Excelsior's site; they should have a chart on passing scores and possible grading scale. I think it's in the catalog webpage.

Best Regards,
Bill

 

"As of July 1, 2001, the passing score for all CLEP Examinations is 50. These exams are now delivered by computer. [...] Some exams for which we previously awarded letter grades will use pass/fail grading for now, until CLEP has sufficient data on the new computer-delivered exams to recommend minimum scores for B and A."
-- http://www.excelsior.edu/exams/xms_clcs.htm

The table of CLEP scores is in http://www.excelsior.edu/pdf/Student_Guide_and_Assessment_Catalog.pdf

 

Thank you Mark and Bill for your replies,

I intend to take soon the CLEP Principles of Accounting. The catalog Mark refered to, states that this exam is rated on a pass/fail basis. Now, if I now take the test on pass/fail basis and Excelsior later gets enough data and assigns grades to the accounting exam, will my exam be assigned a grade later as well or will it remain pass/fail? Incidentally, does the score of pass/fail exams appear on the Excelsior transcriprt?

Thanks again,

Dennis Siemens

 

How do they go about calculating your GPA?

 

My understanding is that, once you graduate, your transcript becomes immutable. Just before you graduate, Excelsior reviews your credits from scratch (and has occasionally been known to subtract credits, to the great consternation of the student). I suppose they might switch the pass grade to a letter grade at this point. Excelsior records numeric scores along with pass grades (at least, they did for my wife's GRE). They do not record failing grades on transcripts.

One's GPA is the average of one's letter grades only; pass grades are excluded.