CLEP - Memory or Gut?

[jcameron]

I just signed up for InstantCert a couple days ago and have been studying to take my first CLEP ever (Marketing), to be followed by Business Law. One of the problems, or maybe qualities, of IC is that you have to actually memorize the answer since you don’t have a multiple choice list to pick from. What happens with me, and I believe it must be the same with everyone, after going through the flashcards multiple times, I still don’t have the answer memorized (the actual word doesn’t come to mind when I try to think of it), but I know what it is and could easily pick it from a list if that was available. My question for people with CLEP experience is: When preparing to take the actual test, is it enough to know what the answer is when multiple choices are presented to you or do you really have to know it as if the test was just like IC’s flashcards (feel in the blanks style)? I do realize that memorizing it is the safest bet, heck, even better, memorize an entire textbook word by word, but would picking it from a list be enough?

Thanks!

JC