08-07-2011, 10:04 PM
Definitely read over the literary terms. I also highly recommend the REA book, but only for the study guide part. The tests are "ok", but you may want to bash your head in at times because you can be 100% right and be told by the test answers you are wrong. This is because REA's test questions are more subjective than the actual CLEP. So take them with a grain of salt.
On the version I took (written, not computer) there was no real possibility of ambiguity. I am not a poet or literary critic, but reading the REA guide and reading analyses of a few poems online (pick your favorite and google the name plus "analysis") really got my brain in gear for the test.* And the way the actual CLEP was written, it was ridiculously easy. I almost laughed out loud while taking it. It might have only taken slightly more effort than picking six free credits up off the sidewalk.
The best thing you can do to know what to expect is to just buy the official CLEP study guide put out by the folks who write the tests. You can buy it at Amazon for about $15, maybe less (I think mine was about $12) and it has examples of every CLEP test. Despite the name it is not a study guide, just one sample test after another. The A&I Lit sample test is very accurate compared to the test I took.
* Reading poetry analysis I also learned that Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" is one of the most misunderstood poems ever written. Even English Lit teachers get it wrong. It's not about choosing the hard road to be better, it's about a man knowing he will tell his grandkids a very embellished tall tale about how hard his life was when both "paths" were actually pretty easy.
Oh the things you learn studying for CLEPs!
On the version I took (written, not computer) there was no real possibility of ambiguity. I am not a poet or literary critic, but reading the REA guide and reading analyses of a few poems online (pick your favorite and google the name plus "analysis") really got my brain in gear for the test.* And the way the actual CLEP was written, it was ridiculously easy. I almost laughed out loud while taking it. It might have only taken slightly more effort than picking six free credits up off the sidewalk.
The best thing you can do to know what to expect is to just buy the official CLEP study guide put out by the folks who write the tests. You can buy it at Amazon for about $15, maybe less (I think mine was about $12) and it has examples of every CLEP test. Despite the name it is not a study guide, just one sample test after another. The A&I Lit sample test is very accurate compared to the test I took.
* Reading poetry analysis I also learned that Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" is one of the most misunderstood poems ever written. Even English Lit teachers get it wrong. It's not about choosing the hard road to be better, it's about a man knowing he will tell his grandkids a very embellished tall tale about how hard his life was when both "paths" were actually pretty easy.
Oh the things you learn studying for CLEPs!
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Complete: TESU BA Computer Science
2011-2013 completed all BSBA CIS requirements except 4 gen eds.
2013 switched major to CS, then took a couple years off suddenly.
2015-2017 finished the CS.
CCAF: AAS Comp Sci
CLEP (10): A&I Lit, College Composition Modular, College Math, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Management, Microecon, Sociology, Psychology, Info Systems
DSST (4): Public Speaking, Business Ethics, Finance, MIS
ALEKS (3): College Algebra, Trig, Stats
UMUC (3): Comparative programming languages, Signal & Image Processing, Analysis of Algorithms
TESU (11): English Comp, Business Law, Macroecon, Managerial Accounting, Strategic Mgmt (BSBA Capstone), C++, Data Structures, Calc I/II, Discrete Math, BA Capstone
Warning: BA Capstone is a thesis, mine was 72 pages about a cryptography topic
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Complete: TESU BA Computer Science
2011-2013 completed all BSBA CIS requirements except 4 gen eds.
2013 switched major to CS, then took a couple years off suddenly.
2015-2017 finished the CS.
CCAF: AAS Comp Sci
CLEP (10): A&I Lit, College Composition Modular, College Math, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Management, Microecon, Sociology, Psychology, Info Systems
DSST (4): Public Speaking, Business Ethics, Finance, MIS
ALEKS (3): College Algebra, Trig, Stats
UMUC (3): Comparative programming languages, Signal & Image Processing, Analysis of Algorithms
TESU (11): English Comp, Business Law, Macroecon, Managerial Accounting, Strategic Mgmt (BSBA Capstone), C++, Data Structures, Calc I/II, Discrete Math, BA Capstone
Warning: BA Capstone is a thesis, mine was 72 pages about a cryptography topic
Wife pursuing Public Admin cert via CSU.
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