Human Growth and Development or Educational Psychology

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I know that this is an old thread, but I am taking my educational psychology clep tomorrow, I will post how I do as well as topics. It seems that a lot of practice tests deal with memory and Piaget, what other main topics should I focus on?

I have returned from taking the Educational Psychology CLEP with a score of 68. I previously got a 61 for the Human Growth and Development about 4 weeks ago and the Psychology CLEP with a score of 74 about 5 weeks ago. I had already previously taken Organizational Behavior DSST and Sociology CLEP which are also good foundations for taking this test. Although my score was better for Educational Psychology than Human Growth and Development, I still feel it would be best to take the CLEP's in the following order: Sociology, Psychology, Human Growth & Dev., Educational Psychology; and Organizational Behavior could be taken after Psychology or at any time with additional studying if you are not going to take any additional psychology exams.

My subscription to the flashcards and the specific exam feedback has expired, but I had previously read that lately most people where scoring in the low 50's, and one person failed by 1 point for the Educational Psychology exam. It is unknown if there is two different versions of the exam and I got the easy version or that I just studied well. If you did not take the Psychology CLEP (but took a class instead) I would still recommend looking at the Psychology flashcards because all three CLEP exams are overlapping to some degree. You can eliminate some of the wrong answers simply because you are familiar with the previous material. I found studying for the Human Growth and Development exam was more interesting. The material for the Educational Psychology exam was exciting to me as paint drying, but I needed another 200 level social science exam and since I already took just about everything else there wasn't many options left. Both the Educational Psychology and Human Growth and Dev. exams had a lot of "scenario" questions, but the amount of scenario questions for the Educational Psychology was extreme--very few quick vocabulary questions.

Since I can't post to the specific feedback section anymore, here is what I used to get a high score on the Educational Psychology exam:
IC Flashcards
I Read the specific exam feedback for this exam
Practice test courtesy of Free-Clep-Prep.com
Educational Psychology video lectures and quizzes from EducationPortal.com Psychology 102: Educational Psychology Course - Free Online Video Lessons | Education Portal
Slavin's Educational Psychology website (select a chapter, click on multiple choice to take practice quiz) Educational Psychology
Official Clep Study Guide 2012 Practice test

Of course there were questions I encountered that were not covered. Figure out what Lexical Knowledge is and read about the 4 frequently used attitude scales here: Attitude Scales - Rating Scales to measure data