Sorry for the long span without updates.
Lots of stuff has been happening.....
Anyways I just got home from Honolulu.
Got up a 4 AM, went to Kona, did special eye Dr. appointments with a portion of my family.
I took 4 CLEP tests back to back in 2 hours, well minus a restroom break and a sip of Starbucks.

The tests were Intro to MacroEconomics, Intro to Management, Intro to Marketing and Human Growth and Development.
I scored upper 50s to the upper 60's for the first three,
I forgot my exact test scores and I'm too lazy to dredge out my score papers right now.

Four days before the tests I realized I haven't studied much(work for Dad's business for $$ and lots of other work to keep my keep at the house, Ah the joy of 18). When I took the Peterson tests(they were down for a long time so I never checked them) I scored much lower than I wanted.

Petersons tests are about as hard or harder than the actual CLEPs, they compliment(are great for filling holes and learning things not mentioned otherwise) the REA books and InstaCert.
To add to my doubts my friend who wishes to be a CPA eventually barely based Macroeconomics and 8 months ago I failed(I took 4 CLEPs that day too) by 1 point previously with a score of 49.

The last minute cramming worked and I scored higher than I've done ever before on CLEP tests.
(I've never hit 60 before)

For the last test however, Human Growth and Development I failed by 2 points, a score of 48.
I didn't know it well enough, the REA book didn't have enough for my particular version of the test and with a day more of prepping with Petersons I would have more than likely scored slightly more than enough to pass.
Finally I didn't pick the book up for a few weeks, never did any recent testing and thought I knew the material well enough...

I've hit the conclusion you shouldn't do more than 3 CLEPs in a day and finally you shouldn't think you know it, or take a test on with deteriorated or incomplete knowledge.

In the end I'm happy, I earned 9 credits and have over 50 credits now.
Although they aren't in the correct areas for a AA so I need to take a couple more choice CLEPs and/or do some other courses to get my degree.

By the way if you want petersons tests, go here ......
http://www.free-clep-prep.com/practice-clep-tests.html
In the end you get free, accurate practice tests for CLE :-)

More tests to take.

I have not posted an update for a while but I've taken some more CLEP tests and am hoping to get my AA sooner than later. I currently have 43 credits and am only a half dozen or so CLEP/Dantes/Etc. tests from getting my AA. I am debating if I should go for another 2 years worth of college. I have a few other conflicting ideas of what to do as a career, I will however continue to go forward with my current goal of getting my bachelors degree(something within business, I may scrap it and go for agriculture because it's more up my alley).

And now it's math, this is going to be fun....

Apparently after not touching math for almost 2 years,
I barely remember Algebra enough to get anywhere.
(Yet I like coding what's up with that ?!?!?)
So I am going to buildup my math skills(that I never had much of)
so I can take the Pre Calc CLEP to satisfy my lower level math for my AA.
That's really other than English Comp is stopping me from getting it,
everything else should be a easy joke...

If I would have known about Clep when I was 16 and not 17 I could have earned my AA before I was 18, but, well, I would have been even more of an oddity and enough people think it's weird testing out of college as it is.......
I am prepping for Human Growth and Development,
it's a mix of simple Physiology, Sociology(I think),
and Biology.
I've already taken Biology,
Educational Physiology(ugh) and Sociology so it's not bad.
I am also taking Introductory to Business Law,
it's okay not easy but not bad.....
I've prepped for a month and should have been around 70% ready to test,
but I'm unfortunately far from being very disciplined and usually freak-out and cram last minute.
So since I have around 3 more weeks until I test I'm trying to spread out the study.

I do a lot of projects that tend to interfere with my study,
plants, fish, aquaponics, 3d this and that, electronics the list goes on and on....

I think my Mom would kill me if I started a UAV(unmanned aerial vehicle) with Arduino
(a very nice open source microcontroller),
but I really want to do one, maybe this fall after I finish my other projects.

I Killed Analyzing and Interpreting Literature!

It's dead,
one month of prep, some initial scare from it's poetry and "ye hard to understand english",
however I passed with a 61(an A!).
It was the easiest test to prep for,if you read a good amount,
breeze over REA's book for the test and have a head on your shoulders you should pass.

I lack the life experience since I'm 17 so after understanding what the literacy devices are,
some words like idom, satire, simile, paradox and such....

I read the poems included in the REA book just so I got somewhat used to reading them,
and took the included tests(I scored like a scaled score of 55 on both of them).

Basically buy the book for $20,
readit, make sure you know what most of the words mean,
take your time during the test, read it out loud(really helped me!) and pass it.

I for the last two of the 4 weeks basically just memorized the literacy terms because honestly there wasn't much to prep for and I already read the whole REA book almost twice..

I took Western Civilization and Natural Sciences last Friday.
I passed both of them with a score of 60 on each test.
Well it's 9 more credits,
now I have 32 credits total and I've been taking CLEP tests for 8 months.
I'm prepping for Analyzing and Interpreting Literature.
It's a whole lot of poems, old English and other goodies that I have not done lots of reading in.
I have 3 weeks from the time I last took my last 2 tests to prep for it,
if I pass it it's 6 more credits.

Sorry for the long time between posts.
I took the tests,
I got 56 for Biology, 51 on US History 2, 58 for Information and Computing and 49 for Macro Ecomics.
I failed Micro Economics, I'm guilty of not balancing my workload and overall not studying enough...
Anyways this Friday I'm taking Natural Sciences and Western Civ 2.
I'm very confident in Natural Sciences,
not extremely in Western Civ but I'm 90% sure I'll pass.
If I pass both of them then it's 32 college credits in 8 months and I'm still 17.

If you have not visited,
check out my CLEP website!

http://sites.google.com/site/clepforyoureaa/

Test Date

I finally got the date scheduled,
it's the 6th of March.
I'm taking Biology,
Introductory to Macro Economics,
Computing and Information Systems,
and US History 2.
Well wish me luck,