Thursday, June 25, 2009

Testing, Testing, Testing

In early June, Landon took the SAT for the first time. He could hardly wait for his scores as he thought he'd done pretty well. Shortly after that, he took his third CLEP test - English Composition with Essay. This one is worth 6 college English credits.

Yesterday, he received his CLEP score. He made a 77 out of 80. This morning his SAT scores went online. He made a perfect score on the Critical Reading section and a 700 on the math, giving him a 1500 on the two sections of the test that most colleges count. (Many colleges are not interested in the newer writing section that includes a subjective essay score. He made a 770 on that part anyway.)

In the meantime, he took a 6-week college course via dual enrollment - Microcomputer Applications. He really enjoyed it AND he finished the course with a grade of 98.2%. So, he is beginning his junior year of high school in the fall and already has 15 college credits. :)

He's always been a good test taker, and that seems to be paying off. We will be going out to dinner to celebrate today! Woohoo!


6 comments:

Kristine said...

Linda, this is awesome!!! I love hearing stuff like this, it is so encouraging to me!

juliebean said...

That is great! CLEP is the way to go!!

Cynthia said...

Congrats!! It does pay to be a good test taker!

Renee said...

The SAT scores are kick butt..... here's praying that wherever he goes to college takes CLEPS and will award him the 6 credits

Linda said...

We're submitting all his CLEP scores to our local community college where it's possible he will get an AA first (maybe even finish the AA at the same time as high school via CLEP and dual enrollment). So, we're following their CLEP policy and taking tests we know they accept and he'll need for his AA. If he ends up NOT getting his AA first, it won't hurt to have the validation of his homeschool transcript via the CLEP scores anyway.

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

Awesome, Landon and Linda.