Failed/Extremely Hard Exams

[bluebooger]

DSST/DANTES Introduction to World Religions
Passed but confused so many hinduism and buddhism names and places.
Had to guess at most.

DSST/DANTES An Introduction to the Modern Middle East
Passed, but their idea of modern and my idea of modern are completely different

I knew everything about Israel, Palestine, Iran Contra, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Iran/Iraq war, Israel's wars with everyone, Jimmy Carter and peace treaty, Sadat, PLO
those things I knew inside out

but no,
the whole test was the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East in World War One
I guessed at 75% of the questions

the only test I failed: CLEP College Algebra;
Did fine at home, but the time constraint and pressure got to me at the test site.
Ran out of time and had 12 questions left unfinished.

[OtherSyde]

I've passed 14 our of 15 so far. I only studied for three total, the one single failed test ironically being one of those three: U.S. History II: 1865-Present. There were so many questions about what president implemented which policies and when, and what those policies did; I spent way too much time studying the post-Civil-War reconstruction period and barely failed with a 48. That test is a lot of sheer memorization; you can't work your way through it using logic or common sense like some of them. I'm much stronger in the Psychology/sociology area, and recouped my needed History credit with the Social Sciences and History CLEP though, so it's all good.

[EDIT] - OH BTW, I've heard it said that the Humanities CLEP is a bit iffy, unpredictable, and difficult. Before I heard those things, I walked in and took it cold because I figured I could use previous knowledge/common sense to get through it... I literally had no idea what the subject matter was; I thought Humanities was basically like Humanitarianism, LOL. Never took a class about any of that stuff. I almost didn't report the score at the end because I was so utterly perplexed and mentally brutalized by all the questions about French art, foreign authors, and old poetry, but I said "Screw it" and clicked Report since I was just taking it for fun anyway and had no real use for the credit. I was absolutely shocked that I passed a test on absolute, sheer guess-work and vague, desperate word-association (Uh... That sounds kinda French... O.o). But unless you know a lot about the art and poetry fields, that is one bitch of a test.

[cookderosa]

I've passed 14 our of 15 so far. I only studied for three total, the one single failed test ironically being one of those three: U.S. History II: 1865-Present. There were so many questions about what president implemented which policies and when, and what those policies did; I spent way too much time studying the post-Civil-War reconstruction period and barely failed with a 48. That test is a lot of sheer memorization; you can't work your way through it using logic or common sense like some of them. I'm much stronger in the Psychology/sociology area, and recouped my needed History credit with the Social Sciences and History CLEP though, so it's all good.

[EDIT] - OH BTW, I've heard it said that the Humanities CLEP is a bit iffy, unpredictable, and difficult. Before I heard those things, I walked in and took it cold because I figured I could use previous knowledge/common sense to get through it... I literally had no idea what the subject matter was; I thought Humanities was basically like Humanitarianism, LOL. Never took a class about any of that stuff. I almost didn't report the score at the end because I was so utterly perplexed and mentally brutalized by all the questions about French art, foreign authors, and old poetry, but I said "Screw it" and clicked Report since I was just taking it for fun anyway and had no real use for the credit. I was absolutely shocked that I passed a test on absolute, sheer guess-work and vague, desperate word-association (Uh... That sounds kinda French... O.o). But unless you know a lot about the art and poetry fields, that is one bitch of a test.

I'm not sure why promoting "not studying" is something worth promoting? Most people, myself included, do have to study. For the record, I've never knocked them out of the park either.