CLEP Score Interpretation

The score interpretation data on this page is intended for use by UIC faculty and staff, strictly for informational purposes in connection with setting score requirements and interpreting CLEP scores.  UIC's Colleges and academic departments are not obliged to follow the ACE minimum score recommendations listed here -- policies on granting proficiency credit, and the standards for doing so are established by the individual Colleges and departments, at their sole discretion.  Nothing on this page should be interpreted to mean that any UIC College or academic department does, will, or should grant credit for a given CLEP exam, or accept a given score for such credit.

The UIC Office of Testing Services takes no position on the granting of CLEP credit, and makes no recommendations as to score requirements.  The exams listed on this page are simply the CLEP exams currently administered by the UIC Office of Testing Services, and several of them are not currently accepted for credit by any UIC College or academic department.

For more detailed information on test content, go to the CLEP exam descriptions web page.
 

General Exam Title	ACE  Minimum Score*	Scale scores	Percentile (approx)
English Composition	420	600 550 500 450 400	99 97 86 67 40
Humanities	420	600 550 500 450 400	93 85 70 49 27
College Mathematics	420	600 550 500 450 400	92 87 75 55 27
Natural Sciences	420	600 550 500 450 400	88 79 67 51 32
Social Sciences & History	420	600 550 500 450 400	97 89 72 48 21
Subject Exam Title	ACE  Minimum Score*	Scale scores	Percentile (approx)
American Government	47	65 60 55 50 45	94 85 66 49 31
American Literature	46	65 60 55 50 45	93 83 70 51 33
Analyzing & Interpreting Literature	49	65 60 55 50 45	94 85 65 46 33
Calculus w/ Elementary Functions	41	65 60 55 50 45 40	97 93 85 76 60 40
College Algebra	46	65 60 55 50 45	95 86 75 61 43
College Algebra - Trigonometry	45	65 60 55 50 45	91 80 65 49 33
English Literature	46	65 60 55 50 45	91 82 69 53 34
Subject Exam Title	ACE  Minimum Score*	Scale scores	Percentile (approx)
Freshman College Composition	44	65 60 55 50 45	92 82 68 50 33
General Biology	46	65 60 55 50 45	92 82 69 52 36
General Chemistry	47	65 60 55 50 45	92 84 69 52 33
History of the United States I -- Early Colonization to 1877	45	65 60 55 50 45	91 85 72 55 34
History of the United States II -- 1865 to the Present	45	65 60 55 50 45	93 84 67 52 34
Human Growth & Development	45	65 60 55 50 45	94 82 67 47 31
Information Systems & Computer Applications	52	65 60 55 50 45	91 83 70 55 35
Subject Exam Title	ACE  Minimum Score*	Scale scores	Percentile (approx)
Intro to Educational Psychology	47	65 60 55 50 45	93 83 69 52 32
Introductory Business Law	51	65 60 55 50 45	92 78 62 47 29
Introductory Psychology	47	65 60 55 50 45	91 84 71 54 36
Introductory Sociology	47	65 60 55 50 45	94 83 67 49 31
Principles of Accounting	47	65 60 55 50 45	93 84 70 50 32
Principles of Macroeconomics	44	65 60 55 50 45 40	96 90 83 71 53 33
Principles of Management	46	65 60 55 50 45	95 85 72 54 35
Principles of Marketing	50	65 60 55 50 45	93 83 68 47 32
Subject Exam Title	ACE  Minimum Score*	Scale scores	Percentile (approx)
Principles of Microeconomics	41	65 60 55 50 45 40	98 93 87 75 60 42
Trigonometry	50	70 65 60 55 50 45	94 85 71 53 36 22
Western Civilization I -- Ancient Near East to 1648	46	65 60 55 50 45	92 83 70 51 34
Western Civilization II -- 1648 to present	47	65 60 55 50 45	90 84 74 59 38

* The American Council on Education recommends that the minimum score for awarding credit be the mean score
for students who earn a grade of C in the corresponding course.

The data in the table above has been abstracted from the the CLEP Technical Manual (published 1995),
and is current to the best of our knowledge.

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This page last updated on October 12, 2010.