New member but loving it here, I have a question about Marketing

[ShotoJuku]

I might be too late with this, but thought I'd share anyway .
Here's my feedback for the Principles of Marketing CLEP, which I passed with a 72:

My only study source was the REA book. Because I had heard this test was pretty easy, I didn't push too hard with studying. I spent an hour or two over the course of about 5 days reading through the book, writing down the definitions to help me remember them. The day before the test I took the first REA Practice Test, and only scored 68%, getting a number of questions that I hadn't heard of those terms before! I felt the questions were worded a little awkwardly too. Not only that, the score calculator on the CD-ROM said that 68% = a 50. Then I got really nervous and started frantically looking over the IC flashcards trying to figure out what I had missed. I only made it through the first four sections. I finally took the OCSG test and scored 81% (highly recommended resource!). I was very surprised to receive a score on the actual test of 72! I am so thankful to the Lord for guiding me through this one!

There were more international-related questions than were covered in the REA book. Once you know the terms and concepts, a lot of this exam was common sense...there were a lot of questions that I just went through and eliminated all the answers I knew couldn't be right. Pay attention to all of the words in the questions. There was one question in the REA test that was asking which era a business with a particular strategy was from. Since it mentioned producing, I chose the "Production Era." When going through the answer explanations, however, it pointed out all of the times the word "sell" was mentioned, thus it was from the "Sales Era." Very glad to be done, but it was an interesting subject. To future test-takers, I would recommend, to feel more comfortable, using a combination of REA and IC. But if you understand the concepts, obviously REA can be your main study source .

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