CLEP tests are given Monday through Friday by appointment only. Each description below includes specific information on knowledge and skills required and study resources. Each of the General Examinations covers material taught in courses that most students take as requirements in the first two years of college. Each is 90 minutes long and, except for the English Composition with Essay, consists entirely of multiple-choice questions to be answered in two separately timed sections. English Composition assesses the ability to do the kind of writing that explains, interprets, analyzes, or presents and supports a point of view, as well as the ability to apply the principles and conventions of standard written English.
Humanities covers material taught in fine arts and introductory literature survey courses.
It includes questions on painting, sculpture, music, film, dance, and architecture, as well as on drama, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. College Mathematics deals with material generally taught in college mathematics courses taken by students majoring in fields that do not require advanced mathematics. It tests facility in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, data interpretation and understanding of logic and sets, the real number system, functions, and probability and statistics. Natural Sciences covers material taught in introductory biological and physical science courses for non-science majors. It includes topics such as classification of organisms, evolution, genetics, organisms, cells, ecology, atomic and nuclear structure, chemical elements, thermodynamics, classical mechanics, electricity, astronomy, and geology.