American Lit, English Lit, Humanities - which is the easiest

[kferg23]

For those of you that have taken these...which would you say is the easiest.

[ShotoJuku]

[COLOR="Navy"]Easiest to Hardest

1. Humanities
2. AmLit
3. EngLit[/COLOR]

[irnbru]

[COLOR="Navy"]Easiest to Hardest

1. Humanities
2. AmLit
3. EngLit[/COLOR]

1. Humanities
2. Englit
3. Amlit

I barely passed American Literature but did fairly well with English Literature. A lot will come down to familiarity with the texts (as is to be expected!) Both have close reading and technical analysis aspects (what does this mean, what rhyming scheme/device).

Agree with Shoto that Humanities is the easiest of the three. It still required a lot of study for me, though it set me up very well for the two lit tests.

Good luck!

[TMW2010]

1. Humanities
2. Englit
3. Amlit

Good luck!

I haven't taken Humanities, but I have taken Eng and Am Lit, and I would have to agree that I found Eng Lit a bit easier that Am Lit. There was a only a 4 point difference between my two scores, but I had less study material for Eng Lit (by about oh, 300 pages, to be honest) and a good portion of Eng Lit was also basically A&I Lit all over again. The Idiot's Guide (the defacto study material for Am Lit) honestly didn't have the depth the test required and contained a ton of extranious fluff, which, while being good info, really clouded the issue on what was needed for the test.*

*Granted, I know the IG was not created to be specifically a study guide for the test, but the way people had talked about it, it was the holy grail of Am Lit info... But the material I had on the test itself required a familiarity with the authors' work...

[PonyGirl93]

I'm going to be the odd one out here & say:

1. Am Lit
2. Eng Lit
3. Humanities

It's quite possible that if I had taken Am Lit before English, I would have thought it was harder, though. Also, I had more previous knowledge about Am lit. Humanities was just really, really broad, which I find harder to study.

[LaurieBTX]

For me as well the order was:

Humanities
English Literature
American Literature

I've always enjoyed the topics covered in the Humanities test, so it wasn't really difficult at all. Although if I was taking it again, I probably would have studied a little more architecture, some of those questions surprised me.

English literature is also one of my favorite topics, and it was very interesting to study for the test. I think I learned a lot of cool facts, and even though I didn't get as high of a score, I was still confident about passing it.

In my opinion, the American Literature was the most difficult, possibly because I detest most American books I believe I got the same score as the English literature test, but it was more challenging for me because I had to study a little more (and learn about something that wasn't as interesting to me) However, I don't think it is necessarily a hard test, just harder for me because I didn't like the subject. These 3 tests are actually some of the easiest I have taken, so I wouldn't be too worried

Good luck!