CLEP

[Lesa Dill]

UPhs!  Screwed that one up.  First mistake today.  And not the last.

"Kathleen E. Miller" wrote:

> At 01:54 PM 6/4/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Beverly Flanigan wrote:
> >
> > >Clepped?  (I was too, but I never heard of this word.)
> >
> >CLEP is some kind of standardized test - I did not take it. But in some
> >way I tested out of freshman English.
> >
> >Bethany
>
> It stands for College-Level Examination Program and has been used in verb
> form since at least the 80s. It allows you to take a test on the subject
> matter in the class and skip the class if you pass. My university didn't
> offer the program. It didn't offer freshman comp either.
>
> Kathleen E. Miller
> Research Assistant to William Safire
> The New York Times