CLEP Social Science and History Exam
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CLEP Social Science and History Exam
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06-30-2009, 10:26 PM
I am planning to take the SSH exam by the end of July 09 middle of August 09and wondered if anyone had any recommendations for study materials and/or suggestions on preparation? I have never taken a CLEP prior to this one. Thank you in advance for your assistance.
07-01-2009, 04:35 PM
I took the REA Practice exams as well as the ones from the Barron's test prep book since I happened to have one laying around. I looked for trends in the results to determine where the holes in my knowledge were.
I rocked the house in history and did terrible on my <insert>ologies. I studied for a week or two utilizing wikipedia for the most part and came away a winner.
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BA, History, TESC '10 AAS, Mechanics and Maintenance, TESC '10 [/size] TESTS PASSED:[SIZE="1"] CLEP Social Sciences & History - 70/50 CLEP American Government - 65/50 CLEP English Composition General - 68/50 CLEP A & I Literature 70/50 CLEP Sociology 73/50 CLEP College Math 74/50 CLEP Intro Psychology 72/50 CLEP College Algebra 65/50 CLEP Macroeconomics 73/50 CLEP Microeconomics 70/50 CLEP Western Civ. I 79/50 CLEP Western Civ. II 70/50 CLEP US History I 79/50 CLEP US History II 78/50 DSST Technical Writing 63/46 DSST Intro to Computing 463/400 DSST Substance Abuse 463/400 DSST Fundamentals of Algebra 433/400 DSST World Religions 467/400 DSST The Civil War and Reconstruction 68/47 DSST A History of the Vietnam War 78/44 DSST An Introduction to the Modern Middle East 80/47 DSST Western Europe since 1945 71/47 DSST Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union 70/45 [SIZE="2"]ON DECK:[/SIZE] A B.E. or an MBA [/SIZE]
07-01-2009, 05:47 PM
Hard to say, since it is such a broad exam. I used the official Collegeboard practice test book to gauge my readiness. It just so happened that I was able to answer more than 50% of the practice questions, so I went in for the real thing and passed. Wikipedia and Google can probably fill in whatever big holes in your knowledge bank you might have, if any, but the best indicator of what you need to study is a mock exam.
[SIZE="1"]BS General Business, March 2010
CLEP College Algebra 51 CLEP Natural Sciences 63 CLEP Social Sciences and History 59 CLEP A&I Lit. 74 CLEP Intro to Sociology 67 CLEP Info Systems and Computer App. 58 CLEP Intro to Psychology 66 CLEP Intro to Business Law 64 CLEP Principles of Management 73 CLEP Principles of Marketing 63 CLEP Principles of Macroeconomics 61 CLEP Principles of Microeconomics 62 DSST Fundamentals of Counseling 49 DSST Principles of Supervision 61 DSST Substance Abuse 441 (Pass) DSST Business Law II 67 DSST Management Information Systems 436 DSST Principles of Statistics 466 DSST Principles of Finance 435 DSST Civil War and Reconstruction 57 DSST Criminal Justice 431 ECE English Comp C :mad: ECE World Population A ECE Ethics, Theory and Practice A ECE Organizational Behavior A ECE Human Resource Management B EC Business Policy B Straighterline Accounting I B Straighterline Accounting II B CSU Pueblo Ops Management A [/SIZE]
07-01-2009, 06:54 PM
I used the Peterson's practice exams, and took the Social Sciences and History exam in the Princeton Review Cracking the CLEP book. The version of the exam that I took was very much like the Princeton Review exam. I would say that if you study the questions and explanations on the Peterson's exams you will do fine on the actual CLEP.
-Jeff
07-01-2009, 07:54 PM
am I wanting to take this also, but I am a complete dud with all history. Not sure if I should try to CLEP out or just take some classes at my CC
07-01-2009, 09:04 PM
I used official CLEP prep and Princeton review, I studied for and took Intro to Psycology and Intro to Sociology in the last year, that helped. I took the 3 Petersons exams and the more I studied the worse I did on those. I used the IC flash cards to help me prepare. I just read over the ones I hadn't already read for the other test. If you need more then the 6 credits I would recommend one of the intro to Psyc or Soc. before you attemp the SS & History.
Good Luck 
Linda
Start by doing what is necessary: then do the possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible St Francis of Assisi Now a retired substitute Teacher in NY, & SC AA Liberal Studies TESC '08 BA in Natural Science/Mathematics TESC Sept '10 AAS Environmental safety and Security Technology TESC Dec '12 |
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