I passed U.S. History I CLEP today with a 66 today. Slightly disappointed due the amount of time I studied. Overall, I'm just glad to pass my first CLEP exam.

I started my studying by watching videos 1 to 12 of A Biography of America It's about 5 1/2 hours to watch all videos.

After I was done, I read Sparknotes 101 U.S. History I It took about three days to read the entire book because I work during the day.

Once I was finished, I took my first REA exam and scored 58 (48.33%)

Once I was done, I went back to Sparknotes 101 U.S. History I and read again, then read the REA History of the United States I book
and did the InstantCert several times and took my second test and scored 66 (65.00%)

Once I did the above, I took the Peterson's exam and got 43% and got a panic attack. I followed by doing InstantCert several more times then watch the "A Biography of America" again and took the 2nd Peterson's exam and scored 57% and 3rd Peterson's exam with 52%. Once I did the 3rd Peterson's exam and went over the wrong answers, I took the final REA exam and scored 66 (63.33%)

The test seemed to have more questions about the Antebellum Period than I expected, as well as authors of literature that I didn't even recognized. Luckily, I was able to recognized some of the other authors and use the process of elimination to better guess. lol.

You might want to do some extra reading here Antebellum Period

As for using just InstantCert to pass? That's possible because I did recognize a lot of questions from InstantCert. I would think using Peterson's and InstantCert together if you don't plan on purchasing any books. For me, I thought it was a combination of those two and REA exams and going over the wrong answers. Of course, the books and videos really helped me out on the process of elimination.

My next target is to take CLEP Principles of Marketing on 12/29 and CLEP Principles of Management before mid January. I have REA books for both of those exams and my trusty InstantCert

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Kate
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BS Psychology

In the past two weeks I passed 2 cleps - Biology and Human Growth and Developement. I got a 62 on both of them! HG&D wasn't too hard, but bio sure was, tonz of information to memorize! I used mainly IC for both, with just a bit of other studying.
In high school i actually took the college math clep after taking the math 3 regent cuz i knew i might want it for college. thank goodness for that bec after not learning math for 2 years, i don't think i would've been able to remember all that stuff.
good luck to everybody!
-rach

Took two more tonight -

CLEP: Intro to Business Law: (62)
DSST: Mangement Information Systems (60)

Finished my Info Lit from EC as well today (Now there was a waste of $250, the thing took an hour tops /sigh)

Our testing center is closing down for the holidays, so I won't be able to reach my goal of finishing by the new year. On the brighter side, it's kind of hard to be bummed out when looking at the progress made over the last eight months. My deepest thanks to everyone here for all of the great information (and encouragement). I wouldn't have been able to do nearly as much without this forum.

Have a great Christmas and New Years holiday everyone!

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Chebasaz
PMP, CISSP, A+, Sec+, MCDST, ITIL

Knocking out the last few for Excelsior BS General Business

Credit Record
November 2008 - 156 Credits
March 2008 - 147 Credits
February 2008 - Completed Excelsior BS Liberal Studies (Management/Administration and History)
January 2008 - 123 Credits
February to December 2007 - 106 Credits Earned

Took American Government today and scored a 62.

Took both Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement a week ago (combining the three tests as stated in the specific feedback section) which made American Gov a lot easier.

103 credits down, 18 to go!

Mike

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Kate
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BS Psychology

Took my first exam last week, Civil War and Reconstruction and scored a 65. It only took me 35 minutes which really surprised me.

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Excelsior College
BS Liberal Studies - Criminal Justice/Protective Services

DSST's Civil War - 65 (A), Drug and Alcohol Abuse - 58 (A)

CLEP's A&I Lit - 72

ECE's Abnormal Psych - B, Research Methods in Psych - A, PAA - A, FoG - A

TECEP's English Composition I - 98

Took College Algebra and scored a 59.

Next up for me in a week is A&I Literature....

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- Passed
Principles of Marketing
Principles of Management
Analyzing and Interpreting Literature
College Algebra
Calculus
English Composition

- Failed
Intro to Business Law
American Literature - 47 & 49

I am looking to take this clep next week. any suggestions?

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Passed
English Comp,Freshman Comp,A & I Lit, Ethics in America, Intro to World Religions

Hi everybody!

This is my first post on this forum. I took my first CLEP exam just over two weeks ago, 11/27/2007. Since then, I have picked up the pace and I now have 60 credits by examination -- halfway to my Excelsior College BS degree. Here are my scores:

11/27 CLEP Humanities -- 79
11/29 CLEP Natural Sciences -- 71
12/01 DSST Management Information Systems -- 65
12/03 ECE Ethics: Theory and Practice -- A
12/04 CLEP Social Sciences and History -- 76
12/04 CLEP American Government -- 72
12/05 CLEP Information Systems and Computer Applications -- 78
12/05 CLEP Introductory Business Law -- 71
12/08 CLEP Principles of Macroeconomics -- 73
12/10 DSST Criminal Justice -- 61
12/10 CLEP College Algebra -- 76
12/10 ECE Statistics -- A
12/11 CLEP Principles of Management -- 76
12/11 CLEP Introductory Sociology -- 72
12/13 DSST Here's to Your Health -- 67
12/13 CLEP Principles of Microeconomics -- 68
12/13 DSST Principles of Supervision -- 67

I'm taking three more DSSTs tomorrow morning -- Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Civil War and Reconstruction, and Business Law II. The InstantCert "flashcards" have been helpful for a lot of these exams. I want to finish my degree requirements before my birthday in mid-February.