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• College Credit for High School Students
• College Credit Rules
• PLTW End-of-Course assessments
• PLTW End-of-Course Administrative Regulations
• Undergraduate College Credit

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To learn more about Project Lead the Way or how your company can join a PLTW partnership, contact Dr. Donn Griffith, Outreach Director, College of Engineering and Computing, University of South Carolina, 803.777.7505, donn@engr.sc.edu, or Mr. B. T. Martin, South Carolina Department of Education, 803.734.3398, btmartin@ed.sc.gov.

To learn more about Project Lead the Way, visit their website.

College Credit Rules

The following regulations regarding the Project Lead The Way college credit portion of the end-of-course assessment have been mandated by our university partners. Any PLTW school offering college credit to its students must strictly adhere to all rules as specified below.

• Only PLTW certified schools may administer the college credit portion of the end-of-course assessments to qualified students.
• Within a PLTW certified school, only teachers who have been trained in a course by Project Lead The Way may administer the college credit exam for that course to their students. A non-PLTW teacher may not use a PLTW exam or offer college credit to his/her students.
• The college credit portion of the end-of-course assessments (Parts A & C) must be administered to students as published by Project Lead The Way. The tests may not be altered in any way. Possible consequences for the improper use, administration, or handling of the exams include denial of college credit to students, loss of school certification, and/or inability of a school to offer the college credit to its students in the future.
• Students are only allowed to take the college credit portion of the exam for a course once.
• Students who do not pass the college credit exam at the conclusion of their course may not retake any subsequent college credit exams for that course to pass the test or to raise a grade.
• All PLTW partner universities who grant college credit reserve the right to call in and review the exams (Parts A & C) administered by schools that are seeking college credit for their students.