Hi, What does a CLEP transcript from the collegeboard look like? Does it list the percentile that the student scored in, or any other info to put the score in perspective? Occasionally, I see people post stuff like "I scored in the 97th percentile on CLEP test XYZ" and I'm wondering from where they got that information. Thanks, Jo
My official score report was printed immediately. The print out has my scaled score and the ACE required score for credit. In the example of Analyzing and Interpreting Lit. It said 72 was my score and 50 was the required score for credit. HTH
I don't know if this has changed since around 1994 but I took a CLEP test then and my report states 98th Percentile.
I asked the same thing of Excelsior, who contacted someone at the College Board - the percentiles are no longer provided, just the scaled score and required score for ACE credit. I'd be interested if anyone has a clear way to calculate it. I've read that for DANTES they shoot for a scaled score of 50 with a SD of 10, so with that information I could determine a percentile. I'm not sure if this also applies to CLEPs. Cheers, Mark
Thank you everyone! I do wish they'd give more information on the CLEP score printouts. It doesn't even say on the front that the maximum score is 80. I've found that some student advisors aren't very familiar with CLEP and assume that a CLEP score of 75 means "75% correct answers" or "75th percentile" or such. Jo
Re: Re: CLEP percentiles? When it comes to scaled scores, each test is different. They "norm" them to ensure comparability of each test over the years. However, there is no way to know how the score reported reflects the percentile, unless one also has the percentile score for that test . The idea is that an 80, say, is the same as an 80 years ago or years to come. The only thing you can be sure of is that a 50 equates to the 50th percentile. I believe this is why many schools set their required scores at this level, regardless what the ACE recommends. I truly believe that the academic requirements could be met with percentile reporting, and that the ETS uses its normed scores to mystify the process--to make them look more complicated than they really are. But hey, I've hated those guys for decades, even though I myself have enjoyed tremendous benefits from their dubious testing-for-credit processes.
