Spanish CLEP in 3 months; Need a 50 Please Help! Question at bottom!

[CableGuy98]

Hello Spanish speakers. I'm in a bit of a pickle. I need to score a 50 on the Spanish CLEP exam so I can get the 6 credits I need to finish my liberal arts degree before I transfer to my 4 year in January. I want to take the test in December so I have really have 3 months to study . I have been on Duolingo for most of the summer and I have about 8100 xp. I have also been listening to this podcast Coffee Break Spanish while I'm at work which has been pretty helpful.

But I feel like this is definitely not enough. Im going to take the REA practice exam tomorrow so I can get an Idea of where I'm at... but realistically I know I'm way off course. I know for sure I need to get my reading comprehension way up. I've been looking for resources all night and the most promising ones I've found have been Spanish Hour (though it looks old and janky), Modern States, and the college board CLEP Spanish Study guide. I also found this reddit post with lots of helpful readings helping with grammar and conjugations. https://www.reddit.com/r/clep/comments/e7jb7x/passed_spanish_with_a_70/But

But I don't know where to start and I need to know what is the best resource or at least where should I focus my study to get that 50 in December??? Please help before I freak out!!

I've never tested via CLEP for Spanish but I would assume CLEP proably falls within the ILR (which I have tested for) somewhere in the level 1/1+/2 range- my question to you is this- do you already have any basic spanish skills? Are you familiar with the Ar, Er , Ir verbs and how to conjugate them? Do you have any experience with speaking in the present tense, and are you familiar with the two past tenses? My point is, it's going to take a bit more than 30 minutes a day to get you where you want to be in 2 months (we're midway through Sept)..  Duolingo and the free apps aren't bad but very limited- not a fan of rosetta stone (for language learning, but they ARE good for vocabulary building).. Might be worth it to check out this software: https://fluenz.com/ it's far superior to Rosetta or other programs out there- for what you're looking to do, level 1 should suffice or if you already have some background, then level 2 would be appropriate and so on... Immerse yourself in whatever you can that's in Spanish.. (newspaper, online articles, news, movies etc.) you won't understand every word, but it will help you understand how the language is used- which will be helpful come test time.. it's a beautiful language and clearly growing in both popularity and necessity daily. Happy to answer other questions if you have them-

CG