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Originally Posted by austinpwrz
Hi,
I just wanted to get some study advice on the Humanites CLEP from those of you who have taken it. I have access to instacert.com, Peterson's, REA and Princeton's. I did very well on the Peterson's exams today 98% on fine art and 68% on literature. I do have trouble recognizing passages from poetry since I not too familar with that subject. I know a lot about dance and art history (I've had to brush up on it), music history I'm doing better on. I know some SHakespeare, etc.
I guess what I am asking is...is it enough to keep taking the practice exams and reading the explanations or should I really know the subjects in depth outside of the practice exams? Will questions pop-up that I don't know if I just use the study exams?
Any guidance you can give me is appreciated since this is also my very first CLEP.
Thanks!!
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Hi Austin,
Welcome to the board.
The humanities exam is almost entirely BROAD rather than DEEP. It is basically a huge general knowledge test. You will need to RECOGNIZE famous names, famous paintings, famous sculptures, famous operas, famous buildings etc.
The more exposure you get to all of the above, the better you will be prepared for the exam.
With that in mind, I think going through Instantcert, REA, COMEX, and the Princeton mocks, will be excellent preparation for you.
There will ALWAYS be questions you don't know the answer to. The subject matter is just to vast to be able to know everything. The aim is to get more questions right than you get wrong.
This is a pass/fail exam. If you are consistently getting more than half the questions correct, you will likely fair well on the actual exam.
I believe I posted a long list of things you should know for CLEP Humanities, somewhere on this board. You might want to do a search and see if you can find some previous threads.
Best of luck,
Snazzlefrag