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Show CLEP testing to be conducted CEDAR CITY -Testing for several subject areas in the College-Level Examination Program, better known to thousands of students as CLEP, will be Feb. 19 at Southern Utah State College. CLEP tests in English, humanities, natural sciences, mathmatics and social sciences-history sciences-history will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the SUSC Career Center, Administration Building 102. Those taking the examinations should be at the center by 8:15 a.m. The first test costs $22; subsequent tests if taken the same day or during the same month cost $18 each. Counseling services can be obtained, free of charge, for anyone interested in the CLEP program or any other counseling and testing services offered at SUSC. Information is available by calling 586-5420. "The CLEP program was established so that individuals, old and young, can earn credit for what they've learned in life no matter where or how they learned it which is directly applied to college graduation requirements," said Gary Dunford, director of counseling and testing at SUSC. Well over 1,000 SUSC students have earned CLEP credit since the national program was established in 1971. Most of them, Dunford said, earn around 12 credits but some have earned, or "CLEPed" over 20 hours. SUSC awards a maximum of 48 hours in general education areas. "Students can take the entire battery of tests or only those they feel most proficient in," the SUSC counselor said, indicating that a number of specialized test, or subject examinations, are also available through the CLEP program. |