Intro to Sociology-caution

[QuotableKali1918]

I took 2 CLEP tests today and did fine- Intro to Sociology and Human Growth and Development. But after reading many posts regarding how "easy" the Intro to Sociology CLEP is, with several people suggesting that InstantCert’s flash cards are all that’s needed to pass the Intro to Sociology CLEP, I have to say that I did NOT find that to be the case today.

The Intro to Sociology CLEP test that I took today was not similar in content to InstantCert’s Sociology flash cards. I would estimate that less than 10% of the content on my test today could be found on the InstantCert website. In fact, more than half of the questions I was asked today were not addressed anywhere on the InstantCert website, and the questions that did relate to what was TOUCHED upon in InstantCert, were much more in-depth in content. The CLEP that I took today was much more comparable to the Peterson’s practice exams. While I will admit that InstantCert’s flash cards were helpful on a handful of questions, they were NOT “key” to passing the CLEP test- not even close. I would suggest supplementing InstantCert with the various study guides that are available, along with a good college textbook. I will, however, say that I found the InstantCert’s Human Growth and Development Flash Cards to be quite helpful with that particular CLEP test; however again, I would not suggest using them exclusively.



Intro to Sociology – 66
Human Growth and Development - 70

Thank you for the information. I am working on IC's Introductory Sociology right now, so this is good to know.