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Failed/Extremely Hard Exams - bluebooger - 08-28-2012 DSST/DANTES Introduction to World Religions Passed but confused so many hinduism and buddhism names and places. Had to guess at most. DSST/DANTES An Introduction to the Modern Middle East Passed, but their idea of modern and my idea of modern are completely different I knew everything about Israel, Palestine, Iran Contra, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Iran/Iraq war, Israel's wars with everyone, Jimmy Carter and peace treaty, Sadat, PLO those things I knew inside out but no, the whole test was the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East in World War One I guessed at 75% of the questions the only test I failed: CLEP College Algebra; Did fine at home, but the time constraint and pressure got to me at the test site. Ran out of time and had 12 questions left unfinished. Failed/Extremely Hard Exams - OtherSyde - 09-06-2012 I've passed 14 our of 15 so far. I only studied for three total, the one single failed test ironically being one of those three: U.S. History II: 1865-Present. There were so many questions about what president implemented which policies and when, and what those policies did; I spent way too much time studying the post-Civil-War reconstruction period and barely failed with a 48. That test is a lot of sheer memorization; you can't work your way through it using logic or common sense like some of them. I'm much stronger in the Psychology/sociology area, and recouped my needed History credit with the Social Sciences and History CLEP though, so it's all good. [EDIT] - OH BTW, I've heard it said that the Humanities CLEP is a bit iffy, unpredictable, and difficult. Before I heard those things, I walked in and took it cold because I figured I could use previous knowledge/common sense to get through it... I literally had no idea what the subject matter was; I thought Humanities was basically like Humanitarianism, LOL. Never took a class about any of that stuff. I almost didn't report the score at the end because I was so utterly perplexed and mentally brutalized by all the questions about French art, foreign authors, and old poetry, but I said "Screw it" and clicked Report since I was just taking it for fun anyway and had no real use for the credit. I was absolutely shocked that I passed a test on absolute, sheer guess-work and vague, desperate word-association (Uh... That sounds kinda French... O.o). But unless you know a lot about the art and poetry fields, that is one bitch of a test. Failed/Extremely Hard Exams - cookderosa - 09-07-2012 jbierkortte Wrote:I've passed 14 our of 15 so far. I only studied for three total, the one single failed test ironically being one of those three: U.S. History II: 1865-Present. There were so many questions about what president implemented which policies and when, and what those policies did; I spent way too much time studying the post-Civil-War reconstruction period and barely failed with a 48. That test is a lot of sheer memorization; you can't work your way through it using logic or common sense like some of them. I'm much stronger in the Psychology/sociology area, and recouped my needed History credit with the Social Sciences and History CLEP though, so it's all good. I'm not sure why promoting "not studying" is something worth promoting? Most people, myself included, do have to study. For the record, I've never knocked them out of the park either. |