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2024-2025 NOVA Catalog 
    
2024-2025 NOVA Catalog

CPL: Section 5-Credit by Examination College Level Examination Program (CLEP)


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College Examination Program (CLEP)

General Information

Administered by the College Board, the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) offers an opportunity for students to earn college credit based on their performance on certain exams that cover introductory level college course material.  Generally, CLEP exams are computer-based and contain multiple choice questions about the subject area. CLEP exams take 90-120 minutes to complete. Students are given their score immediately. NOVA students who achieved an appropriate score on certain CLEP exams are eligible to earn college credit.  Please see the tables that designate the name of the CLEP Exam, the required score needed to earn college credit, and the corresponding course code and credit hours. Please note, the accepted equivalency for credit and the required passing score(s) may be different depending on the year a student completed CLEP testing. Test equivalencies are checked on a regular basis by faculty and updated accordingly.

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Business and Hospitality Management CLEP Exams
Name of CLEP Exam
Required Score
NOVA Equivalent
Credit(s) Earned
Financial Accounting 
50 or higher ACC 211   3
Principles of Marketing 50 or higher MKT 201   3
Introduction to Business Law 50 or higher No Credit 0
Principles of Management 50 or higher No Credit 0

 

Information and Engineering Technologies CLEP Exams
Name of CLEP Exam
Required Score
NOVA Equivalent
 Credit(s) Earned
Information Systems 50 or higher ITE 152   3

 

Language CLEP Exams
Name of CLEP Exam
Required Score
NOVA Equivalent
Credit(s) Earned
College Composition

50 or higher

ENG 111   3
College Composition Modular 50 or higher No Credit 0
American Literature 50 or higher No Credit 0
Analyzing & Interpreting Literature 50 or higher No Credit 0
English Literature

50 or higher

ENG 245   3

French Language: Levels 1 and 2

50-62

FRE 101  and FRE 102   8

63 or higher

FRE 101 FRE 102 FRE 201 , and FRE 202   14

German Language: Levels 1 and 2

50-62

GER 101   and GER 102   8
63 or higher GER 101  , GER 102  , GER 201  , and GER 202   14
Spanish Language: Levels 1 and 2

50-62

SPA 101  and SPA 102   8

63 or higher

SPA 101 SPA 102 SPA 201 , and SPA 202   14
Spanish with Writing 50-62 No Credit 0
63 or higher No Credit 0

 

Mathematics and Computer Science CLEP Exams
Name of CLEP Exam
Required Score
NOVA Equivalent
Credit(s) Earned
College Algebra
50 or higher MTH 154   3
Calculus 50-63 MTH 261   3
64 or higher MTH 263   4
College Mathematics 50 or higher MTH 154   3
Precalculus 50 or higher

MTH 161  & MTH 162  

Scores of 50 or higher will receive the default college credit award of MTH 161 and 162. Alternatively, students may ask to be awarded college credit for MTH 167 (5 credits) when they submit the evaluation request on form 125-049E.

Note: Credit will not be awarded for all three courses. Once credit has been transcribed on to a student’s academic record the student cannot ask for another evaluation of the Precalculus CLEP exam. Students are advised to speak with an advisor before the evaluation.

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Physical and Life Science CLEP Exams
Name of CLEP Exam
Required Score
NOVA Equivalent
Credit(s) Earned
Biology 50 or higher BIO 101  and BIO 102   8
Chemistry
50 or higher CHM 111  and CHM 112   8
Natural Sciences 50 or higher Natural science elective 4

 

Social Science CLEP Exams
Name of CLEP Exam
Required Score
NOVA Equivalent
Credit(s) Earned
Principles of Macroeconomics
50 or higher ECO 201   3
Principles of Microeconomics 50 or higher ECO 202   3
History of U.S. I 50 or higher HIS 121   3
History of U.S. II 50 or higher HIS 122   3
Western Civilization I: Ancient Near East to 1648 50 or higher HIS 101   3
Western Civilization II: 1648 to the Present 50 or higher HIS 102   3
American Government 50 or higher PLS 135   3
Human Growth and Development 50 or higher PSY 230   3
Introduction to Educational Psychology 50 or higher No Credit 0
Introductory Psychology 50 or higher PSY 200   3
Introductory Sociology 50 or higher SOC 200   3
Social Sciences and History 50 or higher No Credit 0

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