AP classes and exams are a great way to earn college credit before you start college. After you complete an AP class, you can take an exam in that subject to assess your understanding of the material. A high score on an AP Exam can translate to college credit, meaning you don't have to take as many courses in college. Talk to your school guidance counselor or AP teacher about whether AP classes are right for you. While there is a fee for taking an AP Exam, many high schools offer assistance for students who have trouble paying the fee. Talk to your school counselor or AP Coordinator about applying for a reduced fee. CLEP, or the College Level Examination Program, allows you to earn college credits for things you already know. This could be knowledge that you picked up from high school, work experience, or studying on your own. In order to get CLEP credits, you will need to take a CLEP exam. Talk to your high school counselor about how to take a CLEP exam, or visit the CLEP website at https://clep.collegeboard.org/ to find a test center near you. Before taking a CLEP exam, make sure that the college(s) you are interested in accept CLEP credits, and find out how those credits are applied. The College Board offers free online courses to help you prepare for taking a CLEP exam. Currently, there are 33 different CLEP exams which cover a variety of topics, including business, literature, foreign languages, math and science, and history and the social sciences. There is a $85 fee for taking each CLEP exam. Some colleges or universities will offer credit for knowledge and experience that you gained from working. This is a great option for non-traditional students who have spent time in the workforce before starting or returning to college. Prior learning credit policies vary from one school to another. Speak to an admissions officer or search your prospective school's website for information about credit for prior learning. Depending on your school's policies, you may need to take an exam or create a prior learning portfolio in order to get prior learning credit. Requirements vary from one school to another, but many colleges or universities let you "test out" of some basic general education courses based on proficiency tests or placement exams. Placement tests usually assess your most essential skills, such as math, reading, and writing. Check with the admissions office at your college or university to find out about their placement test policies. For example, if you ace the algebra portion of your math placement test, you may be able to jump straight into pre-calculus. If you can demonstrate sufficient background knowledge, you may be able to convince your adviser, department head, or course instructor to let you skip prerequisite courses even if there is no formal way to "test out." Work closely with your academic adviser to determine which courses you can skip. Every school has different policies when it comes to challenging prerequisites and other course requirements. Policies may also vary from one department to another. Talk to your adviser to find out how it works in your program.
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One-sentence summary -- Take Advanced Placement classes and exams in high school. Get CLEP credits. Look for schools that offer prior learning credit, if you have work experience. Find out if your college offers placement exams. Talk to your adviser about challenging prerequisites.

Rubrics are generally used for longer assignments or projects that involve multiple sections or parts that will require a certain amount of subjectivity in the grading. In other words, you wouldn't use a rubric for a multiple-choice test but you might use one to grade an essay or a presentation. Articulating the particular goals of the project to be graded helps you come up with the more specific things you'll look for in evaluating it. Consider the following questions: What is the main purpose of the assignment you're grading? What are the students supposed to have learned by completing the assignment? How will you recognize a successful assignment? What makes a project stand out? What's "good enough"? To start breaking the grade down, distinguish between the parts of the grade that cover the content and the parts of the grade that are morel like completion points. There are typically two main categories of components that you'll need to determine to complete a comprehensive rubric, depending on the assignment you're grading: content and process. Content components refer to the actual meat of the assignment and the quality of what the student produces. This includes things like: Style Engagement with course themes or objectives Argument or thesis Organization Creativity and voice Process components are the individual steps that a student must complete to perform the assignment. This refers to things like: Title page, name, and date Time or length requirements Formatting Is it going to be worthwhile to assign a point-value to the student's use of transitional sentences? Their breath-control while giving a speech? The quality of the binder they use? Try to pick a manageable number of criteria to look for and to grade. The less complicated your rubric the better. It should be comprehensive, but not overwhelming, which makes it more frustrating for you to grade and more difficult for the student to understand. Be judicious in choosing the criteria and cut it down to the fewest possible categories. A basic essay rubric, for example, might include five sections, weighted appropriate to their respective values: thesis or argument, organization or paragraphing, intro/conclusion, grammar/usage/spelling, sources/references/citations. It wouldn't make much sense to throw a rubric that assigned fifty points for thesis statements if you haven't talked about writing thesis statements in class. You would use the content of your lessons to evaluate the assignment, so use the same content to develop your rubric. Within the larger or more basic categories on your rubric, you could get more specific if you wanted to. Within "Thesis or argument" you might assign particular point values to topic sentences, the thesis statement, claims and use of evidence, depending on your students' grade level and the particular things you're focusing on in your lesson plans.
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One-sentence summary -- Determine the objective of the assignment. List all the components of the project to be graded. Keep it simple. Focus the rubric on things you're talking about in class.

It's the purple app with an envelope icon on the front. It's in the top-left corner of the screen. This option is near the top of the menu here. You'll see this link below your name near the top of the "Accounts" page. If you have multiple Yahoo accounts signed into one device, you can tap "Account info" below any name to view that account's settings. It's near the bottom of the account page here. If you've recently signed into the Yahoo Mail app, you may not be prompted to enter a password. If you're using an iPhone with Touch ID enabled, you can scan your fingerprint instead. It's near the middle of the screen. This grey link will appear toward the bottom of the page beneath the Make my account more secure button. You'll enter your password once in the "New password" field and then again in the "Confirm new password" field directly below it. You can check the "Show password" box toward the bottom of the screen to reveal the password you're typing. Tapping this option will change your password for your Yahoo account on all platforms. To verify, sign out of your Yahoo account and then sign back in with your new password.
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Open Yahoo Mail. Tap . Tap Manage Account. Tap the "Account info" link. Tap Security Settings. Type in your phone's passcode. Tap Change password. Tap No, I want to change my password. Type in your new password twice. Tap Continue.