College Level Examination Program CLEP Policy 2024-2025

COLLEGE LEVEL
EXAMINATION PROGRAM
ACU CLEP Policy 2024-2025

Arizona Christian University is pleased to offer to its enrolled students the opportunity to receive college credit for successfully taking selected computerized tests in the CLEP program. Computerization offers more flexible test scheduling and instantaneous scoring and credit-granting decisions. The tests taken must be for courses required for a degree program offered at ACU and the restrictions listed below must be met.

• Students may take a maximum of thirty (30) hours through CLEP and/or DANTES (DSST) combined.
• Students must receive a score of 50 (equivalent of 70%) or better on the CLEP exam to receive credit.
• If students pass the CLEP test the credit hours will come in as transfer hours and nothing will be figured into the student’s GPA.
• A student may not test out of HIS 212 United States and Arizona Governments.

CLEP Examination Credit

ExaminationMinimum ScoreEquivalencyCredit Hours
College Composition (not Modular)50ENG101 English Composition I / ENG102 English Composition II6
College Composition (Modular)50ENG101 English Composition I3
Financial Accounting50General Elective3
Introductory Business Law50BUS301 Introduction to Business Law3
Principles of Macroeconomics50ECO203 Principles of Economics (with Principles of Microeconomics)3
Principles of Microeconomics50ECO203 Principles of Economics (with Principles of Macroeconomics)3
Human Growth and Development50CHD312 Human Development3
Analyzing & Interpreting Literature50ENG201 Introduction to Literature3
English Literature50ENG221 English Literature I3
American Literature50ENG343 American Literature3
Principles of Management50MGT340 Principles of Management3
Principles of Marketing50MKT350 Principles of Marketing3
Introductory Psychology50PSY202 General Psychology3
College Algebra50MAT112 College Algebra3
College Mathematics50MAT105 Liberal Arts Mathematics3
Precalculus50MAT120 Precalculus3
Calculus50MAT220 Brief Calculus3
Information Systems50CSC220 Computer Information Systems3
History of the U.S. I50HIS103 United States History I3
History of the U.S. II50HIS104 United States History II3
Introductory Sociology50General Elective3
Western Civilization I50HIS101 World History I3
Western Civilization II50HIS102 World History II3
Biology50BIO100 Survey of Biological Science with Lab4
Humanities50General Elective3
American Government50POL150 American Government3
Introduction to Educational Psychology50General Elective3
Social Sciences and History50General Elective3
Chemistry50General Elective (not for Biology Majors)4
Natural Sciences50SCI100 Experiencing Science with Lab4
French Language Level 1 Proficiency50BA Language4
French Language Level 2 Proficiency59BA Language8
German Language Level 1 Proficiency50BA Language4
German Language Level 2 Proficiency60BA Language8
Spanish Language Level 1 Proficiency50BA Language4
Spanish Language Level 2 Proficiency63BA Language8
Spanish with Writing: Level 1 Proficiency50BA Language4
Spanish with Writing: Level 2 Proficiency65BA Language8

Note: If you are interested in completing a practice exam please visit the Testing & Career Exploration resources on the Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Record’s Digital Arizona Library. The practice exams can be found on their Learning Express Library database.

For practice questions on the CLEP website go to: https://clep.collegeboard.org/prepare-for-an-exam.

Note for language proficiency exams: “Material taught during the first two years is incorporated into a single exam, covering both Level 1 and Level 2 content. A test taker’s proficiency level is dependent on the test score.” (Source: College board website at https://clep.collegeboard.org/clep-exams/spanish-with-writing)

For more information about CLEP Equivalency Tests, go to https://clep.collegeboard.org/for-educators/for-colleges/clep-scores/understanding-scores/ace-credit-recommendations

Transfer Credit Process

  • When adding a language transfer credit from a CLEP exam, please make sure the course number is the name of the language, such as “FRENCH”, and the name of the course is the level of proficiency, such as “French Language Level 2 Proficiency.” (See example below under Stormin’ Normin’)

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