CLEP Forum - CLEP Study - CLEP Testing

mstcrow5429 · #19 (**permalink**) 04-03-2008, 10:05 AM

1) A college degree is a credential, whose only practical purpose is to get you a not bad job, or into a grad program or law school.
2) There is generally negative correlation between attending a college or university and actually learning anything, with the correlation becoming stronger as you move up the educational tiers, ending with negative learning if you attend Yale or Harvard.
3) You're not really expected to retain all of the knowledge you go over, otherwise you'd have to score 100% on every test you took, and you'd be re-tested on that knowledge at regular intervals.

So learn what you can, internalize the important bits, don't worry about remembering every detail of material not directly related to your major, and realize this is really just a silly speed bump, designed to keep you out of the job market for several years so you can get a degree to get a job, or go further into higher education, that you didn't really need the degree for to begin with.

Most things worth knowing aren't learned through "education."

Although ending on a positive note, the fact that you have to actually go out and seek knowledge and data on your own (self-directed learning) to study for exams that you aren't entirely sure of the content of almost certainly forces you to accumulate more knowledge than someone sitting on their butts all day in a classroom listening to someone of likely questionable competence. Also, a computerized exam can't give you an inflated grade because it likes you, feels bad for you, or any other human emotion.