My Journey: BA in English from TESU

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Please post back your experience with the CLEPs!

I just took A&I Lit and English Lit. I expected A&I to be fairly easy, but it was a little quicker and easier than expected. The analysis parts of English Lit were harder and more time-consuming than I expected. The main difference was the number of questions per passage. With A&I, it seemed to average about 5 or 5.5 questions per excerpt, but with English Lit it was more like 2.5. 

And the questions for A&I seemed more like you would ask a non-English major. They varied in difficulty, but there were plenty of easy ones. With English Lit, I felt like it was more like for English majors without most of the easy ones. However, some of the non-analysis questions were fairly easy, so I think that's where they put most of the easier questions.

I still felt English Lit was about what I expected overall. I felt like they didn't ask me about many of the major authors/works I had studied, but there wasn't much that was unfamiliar. I didn't memorize many authors and works.

I also found it kind of fun taking these exams since I got to read interesting excerpts/poems. It's been a while since I did any Lit!

I plan to study about 3 times as much material for American Lit, since it doesn't have analysis (or very little of it). I don't plan to take it until May or June.