How
many questions are on the DANTES test and what score do I have to get
to pass?
Some schools have deviated from this scoring sheet
and have their own policy of WHAT score is passing. Finally, double check
with your academic advisor to make sure you actually NEED that type of
credit. For example, some schools may count English Literature as a communication
art while another will count that test as general education, while another
will count that same test for an elective or interdisciplinary. Your academic
advisor can be a great source of information about DANTES. If you attend
a public school, chances are your academic advisor will have little if
no experience with this under publicized information. In that case, send
them to this web site!
Those tests below listed with a score and then /400 are the
tests that have been recently updated. If you take the new version of
the DSST test then you will need to get the new score which is 400. There
are not more test questions on the new test but the grading is different.
You are given more points for harder questions and then the test is averaged
out to make your score. Don't worry, our study guides have been revised
to include the new information on the revised test.
The current fee for a DANTES test is $80 plus any applicable
testing center fee.
DANTES TEST
# OF QUESTIONS
Upper or Lower
Division Credit
PASSING SCORE
CREDIT RECEIVED
Art of the Western World
90-100
L
48
3 credits
Astronomy
82
L
48
3 credits
Business Law II
94
U
52
3 credits
Business Mathematics
59
L
48
3 credits
Civil War & Reconstruction
112
U
47
3 credits
Criminal Justice
90
L
49/400
3 credits
Drug & Alcohol Abuse/Substance Abuse
106
U
49/400
3 credits
Environment and Humanity: The Race to Save the Planet
104
L
46
3 credits
Ethics in America
110
L
46/400
3 credits
Foundations of Education
94
L
46
3 credits
Fundamentals of College Algebra
78
L
47/400
3 credits
Fundamentals of Counseling
99
L
45
3 credits
General Anthropology
102
L
47
3 credits
Here's To Your Health
101
L
48/400
3 credits
A History of the Vietnam War
90-100
L
49
3 credits
Human Resource Management
99
L
46
3 credits
Human/Cultural Geography
98
L
48
3 credits
Introduction to Business
100
L
46
3 credits
Introduction to Computing
96
L
45/400
3 credits
Introduction to Law Enforcement
100
L
45
3 credits
Introduction to the Modern Middle East
90-100
L
44
3 credits
Introduction to World Religions
108
L
48/400
3 credits
Lifespan Developmental Psychology
97
L
46
3 credits
Management Information Systems
89
U
46/400
3 credits
Money and Banking
94
U
48
3 credits
Organizational Behavior
96
L
48
3 credits
Personal Finance
98
L
46/400
3 credits
Physical Geology
114
L
46
3 credits
Principles of Finance
88
L
46
3 credits
Principles of Financial Accounting
73
L
49
3 credits
Principles of Physical Science I
71
L
47
3 credits
Principles of Public Speaking
84
L
47*
3 credits
Principles of Statistics
100
L
48
3 credits
Principles of Supervision
94
L
46
3 credits
Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
90-100
U
45
3 credits
Technical Writing
100
L
46
3 credits
Western Europe since 1945
90-100
L
48
3 credits
*Plus you must give a speech that will be graded separately.
