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  1. https://clep.collegeboard.org —> Sign in —> My CLEP Account (drop-down overview) —> Request a Transcript —> Transcript Ordering page
  2. In our experience, you can designate which exam scores to send on one transcript. This may seem crazy to some here... but each time my young man completes a CLEP, I request a new transcript to be sent to us at home with all of the exam scores listed. So far, I have been able to pick which ones we want on the transcript with no problems. It costs $20 per transcript. It looks like there are three options: 1. Send All Scores 2. Send only exam scores of 50 or above 3. Orderable Scores (you select from the list which ones to add)
  3. I created a transcript in Word similar to this one: It looks like that original can be found for free here: https://www.scribd.com/document/20976268/Home-School-Transcript-Template or possibly here: https://www.scribd.com/document/20976393/Home-School-Sample-Transcript
  4. Yes, at home. I'm in the process negotiating with a tutor (via Scholé's Tutoring Center) to provide feedback on written work only, not guidance through the course. We are awaiting confirmation that their tutors are allowed to teach in this "unconventional" format. The first quarter begins in July for the next academic school year, so that's when standard tutoring sessions and payment are solidified, but only on a quarterly basis, as per their policy.
  5. Hits: Old Western Culture: Early Moderns – This is our last year with OWC, completing all four years. It’s been a hit every year. My young man has thoroughly relished this curriculum. No regrets. Rhetoric Alive! Book 1: Principles of Persuasion by CAP – It’s straight forward and engaging, a good bolstering before the next book, Rhetoric Alive! Senior Thesis, which we’ll use next year. BJU Spanish 1 – I thought he’d hate more language after several years of Latin, but he’s doing it with no complaints and actually enjoying it. CAP Apologetics online courses by Answers in Genesis — They use Moodle, which can be glitchy, but the content is worth the struggle. We look forward to their WRC online courses as well. Honorable Mentions: I add this list because he has been able to tolerate these subjects with successful progress even though he generally despises them as a whole and would never add them to the hits himself. Calculus 1 by Chalk Dust Company using Calculus of a Single Variable, 9th Edition by Larson and Edwards (Cengage Learning 2010) – Had I known about Dana Mosley sooner, I may have used CD’s Precalculus and Trigonimetry instead of the final Modules of VT for Trig/Precalculus, or perhaps in addition to the latter. Next year, CD’s Stats, for which he’s looking forward and excited. BJU Chemistry – Dry and not exactly fun, but wow does he retain from these advanced science curricula, definitely making him college ready for these courses. He was able to pass the Natural Sciences CLEP just from what he learned and remembered from BJU Physical Science and Biology curriculums, during the two previous school years, with little review from the CLEP and REA study guides. If he was not taking an accredited A&P course next year elsewhere specifically for his career path, I would have had him use their Physics curriculum. He escaped that one. 😏 Misses: Dave Raymond’s U.S. History – For reasons previously mentioned in another post and by another poster, above, I do not recommend it. In hindsight, I should have went with Exploring America by Ray Notgrass. Next year, we’ll use Government and Economics by Notgrass. SAT Prep Genius online course by HSLDA – Not worth the price tag. The instructor was encouraging and offered helpful insight, but the actual course material chosen was worthless, covering useless tricks, and ultimately a waste of time. If the same instructor used a different approach/curriculum, then it could be salvaged. Until then, I would not recommend it.
  6. Which leads to my next question. What text did you designate (e.g., “official transcript”, homeschool name or perhaps a logo) as the watermark?
  7. Congratulations to both of you! And on behalf of other homeschoolers after you, well done in your efforts. Now, I have to ask... did you end up going with an embosser or watermark or... something else entirely?
  8. We did the same at home—a full year course of Informal Logic using CAP’s AoA and AB.
  9. CAP's Discovery of Deduction course is a yearlong, full high school credit.
  10. Sorry, I know nothing of True North A&P. However, I thought I'd share this online A&P course that my young man is going to utilize: https://www.corexcel.com/anatomy.physiology.online.htm The aforementioned course fulfills a prerequisite, as does their online Medical Terminology course (https://www.corexcel.com/html/online.medical.terminology.htm), for a paramedic course he will most likely be taking in the future. These courses are specifically recommended by that paramedic program. Being that Corexcel is an accredited IACET provider, I thought it may be useful to others here as well. ETA: We were considering Apologia's Advanced Biology (https://www.apologia.com/product/apologia-superset-advanced-biology-2nd-edition-2/) before we arrived at this decision. I even purchased the SuperSet from RR and ended up returning it, but not because there was anything wrong with Apologia per se. It just made sense for my young man's career path not have to repeat the A&P course again in the future in order to gain the necessary accreditation.
  11. Perhaps I should ask, is there any specific reason why the score should not be on the transcript, as in one that may possibly have a negative effect?
  12. I had not considered that. Interesting.
  13. Do you think that you... would have listed the CLEP Exams with passing scaled scores (i.e., 50-80), regardless of the where the scaled-score ranks (e.g., CLEP B-level Score) in comparison to their high school grades, especially since these are college-level exams? https://clep.collegeboard.org/develop-your-clep-program/create-a-clep-policy/ace-credit-recommendations/b-level-score-recommendations Would anyone else like to comment on this as well?
  14. My young man loved The Art of Argument (1-semester credit) for informal logic, though not as much of a fan of the Argument Builder (1-semester credit) for continued informal logic. For the most part, he enjoyed Discovery of Deduction (1-year credit) for formal logic, but there were some lessons that were repetitive and dry. Overall, I'd still say that CAP seemed more engaging than MP or Canon Press, which is why we chose that route.
  15. Does anyone here include the CLEP exams (with their scores) on a transcript? Or perhaps within course descriptions? Or both?
  16. It is interesting to see which CLEP Exams our local community colleges accept for credit vs. our state universities. It is clearly not about rigor or proving higher learning acquired, but rather about money that would be lost.
  17. This is a good point, ladies. A sort of rendering unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's.
  18. On a separate note, I find it disappointing yet not surprising how the CLEP is treated like a red-headed middle child. (My initial contact with an admin staffer at one of our state universities had never even heard of the CLEP, though the institution accepts many of them for credit.) If the exams were not sufficient, colleges would not except them. It seems to me that the CLEP is a valid means of proving sufficient knowledge of said subject learned. One could not just walk in off the street with absolutely no knowledge base and pass one of these exams, regardless of being multiple choice.
  19. My young man began and finished Precalculus. He had to complete every single video. Fast-forwarding is not exactly possible, but sometimes he was able to increase to double speed or something like that. I should add that the practice questions were incorrectly interspersed throughout the modules, which was frustrating and annoying. Furthermore, those practice questions were identical to the CLEP Study Guide practice questions. We quickly decided against the free voucher while attempting to fill out the form. He also attempted Natural Sciences, History of the US I, and Sociology. Those were short lived, and the account was deleted.
  20. In short, we found the Modern States videos to be lacking and glitchy, the reading assignments from the texts disjointed, and all that with a far left-leaning agenda. In our experience, time was better spent and a more in-depth understanding gained utilizing the REA CLEP books (which include review, an online diagnostic exam—with some of them—that pinpoints the areas of further review needed, and 2 practice exams), the CLEP Study Guides with practice exams by the College Board, and even Khan Academy.
  21. Now with a couple of CLEPs under our belt, one thing we know for sure is that we do not like Modern States. If you don’t need free vouchers and can swing the cost of an exam, I would not recommend its use.
  22. This seems typical for the age/grade. I’d be hesitant to add a time sucker into the mix. Perhaps specific privileges/consequences, and time to mature, is all that’s needed?
  23. It seems like you may have misunderstood what I was saying. I said pretty much the exact opposite, actually. I was characterizing the view portrayed by Raymond’s sympathetic lecture points, not my own. These are the points that we have witnessed in the history lectures themselves, and which have made me thoroughly uncomfortable with this curriculum in general. “Innocent plantation farmers” is exactly how Raymond portrays the southern slave traders. I, for one, do not appreciate this frame of view, as it entirely dismisses the fact that these people were clearly in the wrong, even if, as Raymond tried to portray it, so many of them really weren’t treated all that bad anyway. I think if the southern farmers really cared about their slaves so much, they would have freed them and allowed them to work and live as they saw fit. Instead, they decided to keep their slaves for the labor and excuse their evil practices with the ever-so-pathetic excuse: “but we treat them like family.” You don’t buy family. His flippant attitude is rather disturbing, I think, and Raymond ought to be called out on the double standards he applies in his lessons. He doesn’t seem willing to apply the same grace to any of the abolitionists from the north, pointing out even the tiniest flaw and using it to make them into the big-bad-wolf, no matter what good they did for the freeing of the slaves. Somehow, this came out with you apparently being under the impression that I agree with Raymond’s sympathies. This is not the case. I believe that God created one race of mankind. The very idea of different “races” is antithetical to my core beliefs.
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