Exam Descriptions
CLEP examinations cover material taught in courses that most students encounter in their first two years of college. Most CLEP exams are designed to correspond to one-semester courses, although some correspond to full-year or two-year courses. Unless stated otherwise in the description, an examination is intended to cover material in a one-semester course.
Colleges usually grant the same amount of credit to students earning a satisfactory score on the CLEP examination as they grants to students successfully completing that course.
Each exam is approximately 90 minutes long, and, except for College Composition, is made up primarily of multiple-choice questions. Some exams do include other types of questions or optional essays.
Each description now includes specific information on knowledge and skills required and study resources.
Composition and Literature
- American Literature
- Analyzing and Interpreting Literature
- College Composition and College Composition Modular
- English Literature
- Humanities
Foreign Languages
History and Social Sciences
- American Government
- Human Growth and Development
- Introduction to Educational Psychology
- Introductory Psychology
- Introductory Sociology
- Principles of Macroeconomics
- Principles of Microeconomics
- Social Sciences and History
- History of the United States I: Early Colonization to 1877
- History of the United States II: 1865 to the Present
- Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East to 1648
- Western Civilization II: 1648 to the Present
