General Information
You can earn up to 30 hours of credit toward your college degree by taking certain examinations.
Advantages
- Financial savings on course tuition and fees
- Complete degree requirements more quickly, graduate earlier, and thereby save room and board costs
- Greater challenge in your college work when you can take extra electives of your choice or meet prerequisites for advanced courses
Student's responsibility
- Determine the tests on which you have a high probability of success
- List ACU to receive the results when you take a national examination allowing six to eight weeks for ACU to receive reports of your test results
- Verify whether credit has been earned before registering for a course in which credit by examination was attempted
These credits may be used to satisfy degree requirements or to meet prerequisites for advanced courses. A maximum of 30 hours may be counted toward an undergraduate degree. However, all credit earned will be listed on the official transcript.
Grades are not given for credit granted by examination, nor is this credit used in calculating your grade point average.
Unsuccessful attempts to earn credit by examination wil not be recorded.
The following is a directory of subjects in which credit by examination or placement is available at Abilene Christian University. Be sure to visit the page on General Information About Testing.
Directory of Subjects
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American Government |
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American History |
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American Literature |
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Anthropology |
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Art |
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Biology, General |
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Calculus |
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Chemistry: Science majors/Pre-med |
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College French |
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College German |
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Computer Science |
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English (freshman) |
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English Literature |
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Environmental Science |
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European History |
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Greek |
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Latin |
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Mathematics |
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Philosophy |
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Physics |
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Psychology, Introductory |
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Sociology, Introductory |
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Statistics |
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Western Civilization |
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World History |
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Denotes tests for which a student may earn college credit.
ACT American College Test
Anyone scoring 32 or higher on the English portion of the ACT will be granted credit for ENGL 111. Anyone scoring 29-31 is eligible to write the ACU English Essay.
SAT Scholastic Assessment Test
Credit will be given in ENGL 111 for a Critical Reading (formerly known as Verbal) score of 750 or higher. Anyone scoring 710-740 will be eligible to write the ACU English Essay.
Note: Students retaking the ACT in order to be eligible for a higher scholarship must do so before the first day of classes. Students who have taken the Residual ACT must wait 60 days before they are eligible to retake the test.
