InstantCert CLEP

Fantastic idea, however I think they hired an entry level app designer or had their intern create it, because it is not good. I consistently get told my answers are wrong even though they are right, it won’t update my “mastered flash cards” vs “kind-of mastered” vs “unknown”. So I have no idea really how my progress is going. When your done with a set and want to return to home, expect to have to close out the app 80% of the time (you’ll lose all your saved data from that session, btw) to simply return to the home screen to go to the next section of the same course, not even a new course, just a new section. Regularly closes out, if you try to swipe right to go back a flashcard, 50/50 it’ll go back to the previous flashcard, 50/50 you’ll exit the whole set and have to start over (progress isn’t saved, yet again). The idea is great, and on my computer (aside from the incompetent individual who wrote the questions utterly lacking any ability to correct your wrong answer with relevant information), it works alright. Still suffering through it tho, cause it’s cheaper than paying for college.

This service of InstantCert is great and I am very grateful for the community behind it. However this app has a lot of things that could be improved. 1) First improvement would be if it remembered where you were in your study of the flash cards. I really don’t like having to click on each section and then click on every subsection of where I was studying. It’s a bit of a hassle and Quizlet is much more intuitive in this regard. 2) If the app team could fix the shuffle function on the flash cards. I have not been able to get it to work consistently and sometimes it will just refuse to work. 3) If they could get an actual app login instead of just a mobile browser version of a splash page login. It would go a long way in making this app feel more polished. I recommend InstantCert to everyone I know looking to get some college credits but the app just leaves a lot to be desired.

The content of the flash cards that they give you to study are fine, but the tagging system doesn’t work. When I go back to the same category later, it still shows me all the cards I marked as Mastered along with everything else. There is a filter option in the upper right hand corner, but it doesn’t seem to work either. I used free flash card apps back in 2009 that worked better than this.