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CLEP Analyzing & Interpreting Literature Exam - Can219 - 08-01-2013
To help others.... knowing the glossary terms is one thing but you have to be able to identify them in an example not definitions. ( People said know the definitions so that threw me off) I thought the passages were hard to read in the time they give you... but what I did find is if you had trouble understanding what the passage was about... if you would read through all the questions regarding that passage it kinda gives you an idea. Again... didn't know this until I had experienced the test.. Hopefully this will help. I had trouble understand some of the words in the works. Just the basic wording. I have never heard of a lot of the words so again it's hard to understand the passage if you can't understand what most of the words mean. I can't believe how much I struggled. Only missed by 2.... Shucks!! I will do a different humanities ... I don't see how I could improve... just not my thing... Also seemed like their were "two right answers" to some of the questions. Anyways! Sure hope this helps someone.
CLEP Analyzing & Interpreting Literature Exam - ShotoJuku - 08-01-2013
Can219 Wrote:I'm a little afraid of CLEP's right now.... Especially since I failed the "easy" one!!! Thanks though.. I will keep in mind in case it's my last resort... Any other options out there?
Sorry about this failure, however there is no such thing as an "easy" one as you put it. Yes, some exams are not as technically demanding as others, and although some label some exams as being "easy" per se, so we all need to go into an exam confident in ourselves rather than just the opinion of others. That being said I'm sure you will succeed on your next exam attempt - Good Luck!
CLEP Analyzing & Interpreting Literature Exam - Westerner - 08-01-2013
Sorry you failed! But don't let this get you down! Make a plan of action and move forward!
CLEP Analyzing & Interpreting Literature Exam - JBtesc - 08-01-2013
Can219 Wrote:Also seemed like their were "two right answers" to some of the questions. Anyways! Sure hope this helps someone.
I noticed that in the pre-test as well. Kind of scary. Sometimes it seems so arbitrary when 2-3 of the answers are basically the same thing and one of them is correct. When I went over the ones I got wrong I couldn't really find any way to turn that into something to study or brush up on.
Thanks for sharing your experience with this test, I take it tomorrow morning and appreciate all the insight I can get.
CLEP Analyzing & Interpreting Literature Exam - Daithi - 08-01-2013
Can219,
Another option is StraighterLine. Where I live, the local testing center only offers CLEP testing on Saturdays once a month, so I've replaced several tests I'd intended to CLEP out of with StraighterLine tests instead. I'd say they only take me about a week to complete on average, and they have several humanities courses. Plus, if you are going to TESC there are several that are also worth upper level credit.
I also took the Analyzing & Interpreting Literature CLEP a couple weeks ago and think Can219 explained it pretty well. I believe I read very well, but there was one passage where I didn't have a clue what was going on. It was only after reading through all the questions that I realized the passage was about lovers dealing with old age or something.
Also, Can219 is right about having to know what the definitions of literature terms mean. They point to a section of text and ask something like, "Do lines 11 - 14 represent A) An extended metaphor B) An extended simile C) A parable D) An analogy." I did pass the test but I thought I would do a bit better than I scored.
CLEP Analyzing & Interpreting Literature Exam - Can219 - 08-01-2013
I hope this does help someone else out!! We are all here for each other and I have received invaluable amount of information from this site!
Does anyone know which SL Humanities classes TESC will accept? I have already done, world religions and US history 1 & 2. They said western Civ 1 and 2 do not count.
Thanks
CLEP Analyzing & Interpreting Literature Exam - Daithi - 08-01-2013
The way StraighterLine categorizes their courses and the way TESC categorizes them are pretty different.
I believe TESC counts these as Humanities
English Composition I
English Composition II
Spanish I
Spanish II
Introduction to Religion
Introduction to Communications
Introduction to Philosophy
Business Ethics
I believe TESC counts these as Social Sciences
Introduction to Sociology
Cultural Anthropology
Introduction to Criminal Justice
American Government
United States History I
United States History II
Western Civilization I
Western Civilization II
CLEP Analyzing & Interpreting Literature Exam - JBtesc - 08-03-2013
I passed ! Oh my gosh, I finished the test not knowing if I did reallly well, or realllly poorly! Turns out I got very lucky, none of the literary terms and devices I tried to cram for were really on the test, it was almost entirely "what does the writer mean by..." or "this passage suggests that the writer feels..." so hard to study for that !
CLEP Analyzing & Interpreting Literature Exam - Lindagerr - 08-03-2013
CONGRATULATIONS That is a great score!
CLEP Analyzing & Interpreting Literature Exam - Westerner - 08-03-2013
Awesome! Congrats! :coolgleam: