Social Science And History Clep

[RBOWMAN]

I just wanted to share my clep experience on this clep cours. I also took the two U. S History courses and then found a sample test course on social science and history. It proved to be a natural flow from the history course to this one and for six credits I decided to go for it. I scored very well and without any studying whatsoever. In fact I took it on the same day as my intro to psych. exam which I passed first...felt cocky ..and said to test administrator let's have the social science and history test. It worked!!

[sgloer]

Could you please clarify exactly what you studied that may have prepared you for Social Sciences and History?

From what I can gather, you studied our Intro to Psych materials, US History I and II... what else?

[bluetooth]

I took this today without using the Instantcert material and passed with a 56. The reason that I didn't use Instantcert was because there was too much information to tackle in the short period of time available to study.

In other words, I procrastinated and waited until the last minute to study. I read over some of the sample exams provided in previous posts and that was it.

[shiraleh]

Hi, Can anyone out there give some more pointed advice fro exactly what one should focus on. I mean, the questions on instantcert seem quite overwhelming! I gotta take this one pretty quickely. Im very tempted just to skip studying all together and see how I do. But I know I should study, right? Anyway-any help would be appreciated! Good luck to us all!

[RBOWMAN]

I took the following courses before taking the social science and history test...

U.S. HISTORY 1 and 2 ..followed by AMER. govt.. I then found a practice test that gave me the very strong belief that I could pass the social science and history test without any further studying. I took the test on the same day as the intro to psych clep and passed both. I will now confess that I have been out of college since 1970. I now find myself changing careers to hospital administration after being an upper level executive for a series of Fortune 500 companies. I never even learned to type and now...well what can I say?

[Cold_navy]

Ok, I just took this CLEP not too long ago, and what helped me was...

US History I & II (JUST THE BASICS, for example: 13th and 15th Amedments,
Roe vs. Wade, Brown vs. the Board of Education... stuff
big... it did not go in depth into History)

Intro to Sociology/ (Basics again: Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and go through
Psychology some basic terminology)

Intro to World Religions: Just run through it once or twice and pick out the
names: (for example in Islam, you have the five
pillers.)

Macro/Microeconomics: Same as above... go through the InstantCert
flashcards a once or twice for these.

HINT: You need to know the information in all the sections verbatum, just go through and get fimiliure with the names. There is this beautiful thing call "The process of elimination", if you can recognize a few names in an area, and know which ones don't fit, it ups you odd of getting the question right. THEY DO NOT TAKE POINTS AWAY FOR GETTING A QUESTION WRONG ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!! So if all else fails, GUESS.


This pretty much goes for any CLEP, SO..

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cold_navy]

In my above statement, I left out that you DON'T need to know the info verbatum. Sorry for leaving that out... been up all night... my daughters been sick....


GOOD LUCK

[kev1j]

Sounds goood to me will give it a go

[kwick]

See above. Plus:

Review the ancient Greeks - cities as well as people
Review history of Israel
Cover Freud in moderate detail
Review basic economics, and 20th century theories
Growth of the US (see: American History: "Growth of a Nation") for a 10 minute annimation that might be useful)
Effects of wars
Know how to read graphs and charts.
Don't memorize a lot of exact dates but do be able to understand historical trends.
My exam was a real smorgasboard of topics. Not too many questions about any one topic. Basically something from each of the topics they list.

IC should get you a pass but there's a LOT of material!!!
Comex guide should also get you a pass. I used both and scored a 70.

Good luck.

[Kiwi Lover]

CONGRATULATIONS on such a great score! And thanks for posting the excellent feedback, which I will add to the Specific Feedback section.

Take care,
JoAnne