us history I and US History II - study time??

[shelbaline4]

I am planning to take the CLEP US History I exam on March 8th and was wondering if one week is enough time to go ahead and study for US History II afterwards? I am giving myself 8 days between taking the Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union DSST and US HIstory I. Any thoughts??

[ShotoJuku]

"Slow and Steady Wins The Race" - is there an urgency involved here?

[shelbaline4]

no, there's no urgency. I just want to knock out as many CLEP and DSST exams as I can before the summer. I am going to need to take 2-3 classes at TESC so I wanted to try to get to that after all of my testing is done. I studied for Western Europe since 1945 in a week and did fine so I wasn't sure about the time needed with these other exams

[picklejuice]

I just just completed both exams. You can do both in one to two weeks each if you have the right study materials.

First, I highly recommend this website: American History [ushistory.org]
Read through all of it section by section. It doesnt take that long and will really give you a good foundation.

Next get the REA book for both tests. Read and do the practice tests.

Then use Wiki as needed to look up stuff to help you understand. I wouldn't do both at the same time. Just take 1-2 weeks for one and 1-2 weeks for the other.