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The Inforium

How to Test out of College Courses (Ep. 49)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Personal Branding, Career, Productivity, Business, Learning, Lifehacking, College, University, Education, 101, Lifestyle Design, Work Smart, Class

4.8998 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Jay Cross of DIYDegree explains how to earn your degree faster and smarter sharing his testing out strategies in this week's episode. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: DSST Test CLEP Exams Jay's Test Out of College: Graduate in 1 year with Degree-by-Examination article Myth of the High-Paying Major Find Jay on Twitter! Smart Solution Finding with Lazy Innovations Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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0:03.2

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0:34.0

Hey there everybody I'm Thomas Frank and

0:41.0

welcome once again to the College Info Geek Podcast.

0:44.3

This show is designed to help you become a better student, more efficient study year, better

0:48.5

learner, also it's here to help you get jobs you want, manage your money better, and basically just win at college, quote unquote.

0:56.0

And you know, the thing about college is it's got a lot of classes, and sometimes you don't want to take certain classes or sometimes maybe you want to take

1:04.3

classes but the school has decided that they are not available that semester and you're going to have to wait.

1:09.6

So what are you doing that situation?

1:11.1

Well today's guest on the show found a really cool way to deal

1:15.3

with that situation. His name is Jay Cross and he's the founder of Do It Yourself

1:19.6

degree.com and on this episode Jay is going to talk about how when he was a senior his college actually

1:26.2

made pretty much all the classes left in his major unavailable and they didn't really

1:30.9

tell him how long he would have to wait until they'd be available again.

1:34.4

So what he actually found that he could do was test out of almost all these classes and he was able to finish his entire senior year in six months through testing out for much less money.

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