I acheived my objective with Principles of Management and American Government after one week of imput! Alas, my output was not as stellar as I had hoped after being ill which affected my productivity. However, I made the grade with a 69 and 66, respectively.

Principles of Management - This exam is alot of common sense! I agree with the more experienced members of this form that IC is enough to pass! In a different turn, I didn't master IC on this one and mainly mastered the first two IC sections, but reviewed most of the questions-some only once. However, I did some indy study with Wikipedia on theories, theorists, and terms. Plus, reviewed the College Board practice exam, comparing answers to questions after taking the exam. Took two Peterson's and scored 76 and 70. My advice: make sure you know the material in IC solidly and you can't go wrong. At 19, no experience in "Corporate America" or Business Management (other than listening to my father who is a manager). I know mastering IC, as I did with Intro to Sociology, would have brought it up in the 70's.

American Government - This was the second exam I took today; My reasoning for the order was that I had more experience in this subject (after volunteering on staff of a state-wide campaign last year) and was scoring good on Peterson's tests 70 (after studying one IC section), 72 (after a little more IC study), and 75 (College Board book test). I felt shaky in my Management prep, so I focused my time there and hardly studied for Am Gov't, but did a little Wikipedia about beginning of the week. I took 1 hour in between tests to study up on Bill of Rights, Constitutional amendments, Dred Scott case, court cases (ie Marbury v Madison) at the community college library on Wikipedia. I felt very good taking the test and breezed through the first 50 questions and felt like I unquestioningly knew the answers to at least the first 65 questions. I was shocked at my score (less than Mgmt) as I just knew I scored in the 70's on American Governmet. I recommend knowing the things I mentioned, mastering IC, and taking the Official CLEP book test along with Peterson's and reveiwing the answers. This is not a hard test if you enjoy history and government, but I think mastery of IC would have brought my score up into the 70's (maybe helped me avoid some pitfalls). There were about 6-8 graphs and charts.

This is getting too long, but hopefully somebody can learn from this experience.

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Thanks for the advice. I am looking to do Princ of Mgt and Marketing also. Are you going to try for Princ of Supervision or Marketing next? I think they piggyback.

When you're giving feedback, no such thing as a "too long" post. Nice work, and very solid scores!

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I plan on taking Principles of Marketing on Wednesday. I was going to take U.S. History I and Marketing at the same time (using synergy from last week's exams) however, I don't feel prepared for Hist I as my school requires a 58 minimum score. It appears to be much harder than History II.

Have you decided on which one to go with (Mark or Mgmt)? Intro to Soc. is also excellent to take before Management!