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Most students must fulfill general education requirements for degree purposes in four areas: humanities, social science/history, biological science, and physical science. CLEP General Examinations in humanities and social science can be used to earn waivers of the corresponding general education requirements, or parts of them, and to earn degree credit. Credit is not awarded by the University for scores from the CLEP General Examinations in English composition, mathematics, or natural science. A CLEP test provides an opportunity for a student to demonstrate knowledge in a general subject area that is as thorough as that required of a graduate who has not majored in that particular area. General education requirements are designed to ensure that graduates of the University are generalists as well as specialists. The University recognizes that this general knowledge may have been acquired by entering students through high school work, independent study, extracurricular reading, projects, or work experience. C LEP General Examination scores can be used to earn 3 or 6 credit hours and waiver of all or part of the requirement in each of the two general education areas. College policies vary in terms of the tests that are acceptable for earning credit and waiver, and in terms of the scores required for partial or complete waiver of a requirement.
Students may take CLEP examinations at any CLEP National Testing Center designated by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), Box 966, Princeton, New Jersey 08540. Official score reports should be sent by ETS to coordinator, Placement and Proficiency Testing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 247 Armory Building, c/o 182 Armory Building, 505 East Armory Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820. Locations of CLEP National Testing Centers and test administration dates may be obtained by writing to ETS, or by inquiring at most college and high school counseling offices.
CLEP test scores earned by beginning freshmen at the Urbana-Champaign campus, including students with less than 12 semester hours of transferable classroom credit attempted at other collegiate institutions, are evaluated for credit according to norms established for the campus. Transfer students should refer to the section on Acceptance of Nontraditional Transfer Credit for the policy on accepting credit earned through CLEP examinations.
CLEP examination scores reported by the Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support (DANTES) testing centers will be evaluated against the same criteria that are applied to continuing students on the Urbana-Champaign campus.
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