Humanities CLEP Test Questions. Please help!

[PonyGirl93]

Passed!! I would say that the practice test closest to the real thing is the free Peterson's one. Although some of the easier REA questions are right on!!!

[operalady]

Passed!! I would say that the practice test closest to the real thing is the free Peterson's one. Although some of the easier REA questions are right on!!!

Congrats on your pass!!

Blessings on your future studies!

[Ruddigore]

Passed!! I would say that the practice test closest to the real thing is the free Peterson's one. Although some of the easier REA questions are right on!!!

A 63? Nice job. Here's to many more passed exams!

[PonyGirl93]

Congrats on your pass!!

Blessings on your future studies!

A 63? Nice job. Here's to many more passed exams!

Thanks guys And I'll drink to that!!! cheersmate

[hoagland]

I am currently studying for Humanities and was wondering how accurate the different practice tests are for this exam. How close are the Petersons to the real exam? The Princton Review? The Comex tests? Thanks for any help!!!

`Dakota

[operalady]

I am currently studying for Humanities and was wondering how accurate the different practice tests are for this exam. How close are the Petersons to the real exam? The Princton Review? The Comex tests? Thanks for any help!!!

`Dakota

Hmmmm. What do you mean by accurate? If you mean that you find the same questions....not really. If you mean that if you can do well on the practice exams and you look up what you missed....yes. I liked the REA & CLEP official exams but I don't recall seeing the same questions on the real test. Peterson's exams were way hard!!

[PonyGirl93]

I am currently studying for Humanities and was wondering how accurate the different practice tests are for this exam. How close are the Petersons to the real exam? The Princton Review? The Comex tests? Thanks for any help!!!

I would say that the one closest in difficulty is the free Peterson's test (the link is somewhere in this thread.) The real one might be a tad harder, though. But it isn't as hard as REA & nowhere near as hard as the regular Peterson's. The official CLEP is like right on.

[hoagland]

Thanks for the quick feedback! I am now going to schedule my test for tomorrow, but I wasn't sure how hard/easy the practice tests were compared to the actual exam (especially Petersons). Thanks again!!

[hoagland]

Hi,
Today, after about 2 weeks of study, I took the Humanities Clep test and passed!! The resources I used are the following:

The Comex Guide – I used this to familiarize myself with this subject and took the two practice tests, which were helpful.
IC – the IC cards were pretty helpful for the exam, although I would not recommend using them solely as studying material. There was some questions on the exam that were not covered by IC, but at the same time, there were questions that were almost identical to the IC flashcards.
Petersons Tests – I would recommend getting these exams because they help your knowledge of not-so-common-authors and help you pay attention to details which might otherwise be skipped or not introduced at all. I found the tests to be harder the real exam, so if you don’t get the greatest score, don’t panic too much (especially on the second and third tests).
Princeton Review – I took this practice exam which is fairly similar in the way the actual exam presents questions. Perhaps slightly easier, but pretty close in difficulty.

As far as the test went…I found that I flew through the questions because it just didn’t take as long to think though the questions presented. I didn’t feel I was very strong on the dance/music/cinema side of the test, but felt more solid on the literature/painting/architecture part of the test. Having taken English and American Lit. certainly helps with these aspects. The key to this test is becoming familiar with a wide range of people and their productions, as well as the time periods, terminology, and opinions of the more famous authors or composers. Here are some questions or ideas that came up on my test:

What work was incorporated into Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony? (Schiller’s Ode To Joy)
What does chiaroscuro mean? (has to deal with light and dark contrasting)
Be able to identify a group of percussion instruments
There was a excerpt from Beowulf – so be able to recognize Old English and know this
There was an excerpt from the Canterbury Tales – know Geoffrey Chaucer was the author
Another excerpt from the Canterbury tales asking where they were going
What was Sandro Botticelli’s famous work (Birth of Venus)
Who wrote The Life of Samuel Johnson?
Who wrote the Life of Dr. Faustus?
Be able to identify George O’Keeffe’s painting Jack and the Pulpit IV
What was Virginia Wolfe’s A Room of One’s Own” about?
What painter used to spread canvas on the floor and use tension so he could paint around and “in” it? (either Andy Warhol or Jackson Pollock) What art movement is that? (Pop Art)
Be able to identify a idol of Buddha

I have no background, whatsoever, in humanities – so I was glad to see this one out of the way and completed. Practice exams really help on this test. Anyway, hope this helps!! Good luck to anyone that plans to take this in the future!


`Dakota

[fdriggers]

Thanks so much! I'm taking my third CLEP, Humanities tomorrow! Ahh! I'm a little nervous because I didn't do so well on a practice text yesterday, but the one I did was from an old 1996 CLEP practice book. Anyway, I've been studying for almost two weeks.. hope I pass!