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Show GLEP test to be offered at college CEDAR CITY National College-Level Examinations in English, humanities, natural sciences," mathematics and social sciences-history sciences-history will be given April 16 at Southern Utah State College. CLEP testing will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the SUSC Career Center, Administration Ad-ministration Building 102. Those . taking the examinations should be at the center by 8:15 a.m. The first test costs $25; any additional tests taken the same day or during the same month cost $22 each. "The CLEP program was established so that individuals, whatever their age, 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 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." Counseling services can be obtained, free of charge, by anyone interested in-terested in the CLEP program or any other counseling and testing services offered at SUSC. Information is available at 586-5420, or by calling SUSC toll-free, 1-800-662-1897, extension 5420. "Students can take the entire battery of CLEP tests or only those they feel most proficient in," the SUSC counselor said, indication that a number of specialized tests, or subject examination, are also available through the CLEP program. |