Study Materials!!!

[Tee1208]

Hello,
Does anyone know where I can get great study materials or (Analyzing & Interpreting Literature). I have to take the test in 3 wks.

Help!!!!!

[LaterBloomer]

Tee1208, Do you read? If you do, chances are you don't have to study for the A&I test. It's pretty simple. What's more of an issue is keeping track of the time. In the next three weeks, I'd recommend taking sample tests, and looking over a list of literary terms. What's allegory? That sort of thing. Good luck.

[jtalama]

Hello,
Does anyone know where I can get great study materials or (Analyzing & Interpreting Literature). I have to take the test in 3 wks.

Help!!!!!

I'm taking A&IL in a couple of weeks. Although I hear it's very easy, I'm still going to study so as not to leave it entirely up to chance. I bought the A&IL book by REA on Amazon. It will be my first time taking a CLEP, so it may be overkill but I'm a little nervous and want to play it safe.

[Storyteller]

Just my 2 cents...A&I Literature is not easy...it is common sense...Be prepared to read fast and comprehend what the question is asking you. Know literature terminology...check the free-clep-prep website for a wealth of information concerning this test. If this is not your only clep test, think about joining Instantcert ... there are no flashcards for A&I, but the specific feedback forum on this test can be very beneficial.
Good luck.

[aliza613]

nothing really to study.. maybe some terms on literature... otherwise walk in and take it!!!

[dcan]

I'm taking A&IL in a couple of weeks. Although I hear it's very easy, I'm still going to study so as not to leave it entirely up to chance. I bought the A&IL book by REA on Amazon. It will be my first time taking a CLEP, so it may be overkill but I'm a little nervous and want to play it safe.

That is the book I used to study. The study guide portion is great. But the practice tests in that book are nothing like the real test. The real test (the one I took anyway) is 100% clear and unambiguous, no "trick" questions or anything. The REA tests on the other hand were in some cases ridiculously ambiguous. I got one wrong, showed it to my wife (who is far more literary-minded than I) and she picked the exact same answer I did.

I got a 79 on the test, largely from the REA study guide. I also looked up some literary term definitions online. I was a literary idiot to boot. The test is not something I wanted to play around with (six credits is not worth the risk) and I was nervous leading up to it. But the test was a joke to me by the time I took it, because of how I studied: immersion.

The one thing that I think really helped me "grok" this stuff was listening to this audio book during my daily commute. I got through about a third of it (through Shakespeare's era) before I took the test. I didn't know poetry from a rock, but listening to this really expanded my mind and helped give me a much deeper and richer understanding of metaphor and symbolism. It's a literary history, but it's about 100 years old so it is biased and talks a lot about symbolism in literature, how literature impacted politics, and the like.

Seriously, I think being "immersed" in that helped tune my brain into thinking in a more "literary" way, so when it came time to actually take the test it was ridiculously easy.

Since then I am immersing myself in lectures on whatever topic I'm studying, in addition to study guides, IC flashcards, and textbooks. It really is paying off big-time. I highly recommend this strategy.

Also, as usual, if you are taking a CLEP test, just buy the Official CLEP Study Guide. $15 or less on Amazon, and it has ALL the CLEP tests in it. The practice tests in this book are VERY accurate depictions of what you will face on the real test. If you ace this you should ace the test.

[dcan]

Just my 2 cents...A&I Literature is not easy...it is common sense...Be prepared to read fast and comprehend what the question is asking you. Know literature terminology...check the free-clep-prep website for a wealth of information concerning this test. If this is not your only clep test, think about joining Instantcert ... there are no flashcards for A&I, but the specific feedback forum on this test can be very beneficial.
Good luck.

Also, ditto everything here. And protip on this test: there is a LOT of reading, so skim the passage, read the question and answers, then read the line it references as well as a few lines before and after for context. Helps tremendously.

[bldclot2]

FREE-CLEP-PREP.com has a great link to literary devices and other great resources. This is all I used, when I took the test a month ago. The biggest challenge for me was the time, I suggest you use the mark button for review during the test and come back to the ones you couldn't answer earlier.