1. Find out information about your college’s CLEP policies
Over 2,900 colleges and universities award credit to students who achieve satisfactory scores on CLEP exams and each learning institution determines how CLEP credits are awarded. Since each college determines how CLEP credits are awarded, it is important to always contact your guidance counselor prior to beginning CLEP prep or attempting a CLEP exam.
2. Decide which CLEP exam you want to take
Students who wish to take a CLEP exam should learn about their college or university’s CLEP policy in order to find out if and how their learning institution awards credit for CLEP and determine which CLEP exam he or she should take.
3. Prepare for your CLEP exam
The SpeedyPrep online CLEP prep system utilizes an entirely question-based learning format to help students learn the material they need to know to obtain a passing CLEP exam score.
4. Register for your CLEP exam
This can usually be taken care of with a phone call to your local testing center.
5. Take your CLEP exam!
CLEP Courses SpeedyPrep Offers:
Humanities CLEP exam
140 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 6 credits
This CLEP exam covers the following areas: music, art, literature, and performing arts. Preparing for this broad CLEP exam requires students to familiarize themselves with classical to contemporary art, architecture, music, dance, theater, film, philosophy, prose, and poetry.
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Humanities CLEP test.
American Literature CLEP exam
100 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 6 credits
The American Literature CLEP test will cover the subjects typically addressed in a semester long college course. Students are expected to be familiar with different literary works and be able to interpret excerpts from those works.
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American Literature CLEP test.
Analyzing and Interpreting Literature CLEP exam
80 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 6 credits
This CLEP exam covers material taught in a general two-semester undergraduate literature course and tests students’ analysis and interpretation skills of the following areas of literature: poetry, drama, and prose fiction and nonfiction. In addition, this CLEP exam offers an optional essay section in which the student is given a total of 90 minutes to compose written responses to two essay questions, each requiring the student to analyze a passage of literature.
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Analyzing and Interpreting Literature CLEP test.
American Government CLEP exam
100 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 3 credits
This CLEP exam covers material taught in a one-semester undergraduate introductory American government course.
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American Government CLEP test.
Introductory Psychology CLEP exam
95 multiple choice-questions, 90 minutes, up to 3 credits
This CLEP exam covers material taught in a one-semester undergraduate introductory psychology course, such as general concepts, principles, and facts of introductory psychology.
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Psychology CLEP test.
Introductory Sociology CLEP exam
100 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 3 credits
This CLEP exam covers material taught in a one-semester undergraduate introductory sociology course, such as basic sociological concepts, facts, and theoretical perspectives.
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Sociology CLEP test.
Microeconomics CLEP exam
80 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 3 credits
This exam will address material generally covered in a semester long course of microeconomics at any private, state, or community college.
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Microeconomics CLEP test.
Macroeconomics CLEP exam
80 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 3 credits
Students who take this test are expected to understand the basic concepts covered in any traditional macroeconomics college course.
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Macroeconomics CLEP test.
U.S. History I: Early Colonization to 1877 CLEP exam
120 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 3 credits
This CLEP exam covers material taught in the first semester of a two-semester undergraduate United States history course. Specifically, this CLEP exam covers United States history from the early European colonization through the end of the Reconstruction period.
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U.S. History I CLEP test.
U.S. History II: 1865 to the Present CLEP exam
120 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 3 credits
This CLEP exam covers material taught in the second semester of a two-semester undergraduate United States history course, including the end of the Civil War to the present era.
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U.S. History II CLEP test.
Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East to 1648 CLEP exam
120 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 3 credits
This CLEP exam covers material taught in the first semester of a two-semester undergraduate Western Civilization course. Specifically, this CLEP exam covers civilizations of the Ancient Near East, Ancient Greece, and Rome as well as the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, and early modern Europe.
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Western Civilization I CLEP test.
Western Civilization II: 1648 to the Present CLEP exam
120 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 3 credits
This CLEP exam covers material taught in the second semester of a two-semester undergraduate Western Civilization course. Specifically, this CLEP exam covers European history from the mid-seventeenth century through the period after the Second World War, including the Enlightenment, Scientific Thought, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and the First and Second World Wars.
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Western Civilization II CLEP test.
College Composition Modular CLEP exam
90 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 6 credits
This CLEP exam covers material taught in many undergraduate first year two-semester English courses. In order to prepare for this CLEP exam, students must learn about formal and informal writing, rhetoric principles of standard written English, research and reference skills and techniques, grammatical and language elements, and literary analysis and interpretation techniques. In addition, this CLEP exam offers an optional essay section in which the student is given 90 minutes to complete written responses to two essay questions, each requiring clear, effective writing skills.
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College Composition CLEP test.
College Mathematics CLEP exam
60 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 6 credits
The College Mathematics test takers will be expected to be knowledgeable in basic mathematical functions and concepts. The subjects addressed in this CLEP test are very fundamental.
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College Mathematics CLEP test.
Natural Sciences CLEP exam
120 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 6 credits
This CLEP exam is intended cover a broad range of topics taught in freshman or sophomore level introductory biological and physical science courses.
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Natural Sciences CLEP test.
Information Systems and Computer Applications CLEP exam
100 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 3 credits
Students who desire to take this test should familiarize themselves with the terminology and concepts that would be covered in a semester long college course.
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Info Systems and Computer Applications CLEP test.
Introductory Business Law CLEP exam
100 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 3 credits
The Business Law test covers introductory material that is addressed in a typical college course given ay any university.
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Introductory Business Law CLEP test.
Principles of Management CLEP exam
100 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 3 credits
This CLEP exam covers material taught in a one-semester undergraduate introductory management and organization course. Thorough CLEP prep for this exam requires that the student gain knowledge of operational and functional aspects of management as well as human resources.
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Principles of Management CLEP test.
Principles of Marketing CLEP exam
100 multiple-choice questions, 90 minutes, up to 3 credits
This CLEP exam tests students’ knowledge of material covered in a one-semester introductory marketing course.
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Principles of Marketing CLEP test.
