nervous, clueless, and less than two weeks time :(

[vickyg973]

Hi, since I said less than two weeks time i'll jump to the point.

I NEED to get 6 credits of CLEP by about Dec 13th or i'm in trouble.  Due to quirks of financial aid, once accepted by my school it kicks me from freshman to sophomore status, letting me borrow an extra $1000 this spring that literally could be the difference of being fed or not/making my rent or not.  (not due to any financial foolishness on my part - uncovered medical bills ate up money needed for basic living)

Short version i'm planning to take the Marketing and Management ones - one of the sites suggested those were the easiest two to learn really quickly.

I subscribed to InstantCert and... well i'm getting like less than 10% of the terms of something I thought i'd have more familiarity with so I feel like an idiot and wondering if this is beyond me.  Trying to calm down.  Trying to figure it out.  Was a little confused when I saw 300 questions in a test and didn't notice obvious study materials... I guess it's only a virtual test more than a whole study package..?

I'm also having to work at other jobs so I can't just spend two weeks nonstop grilling - any hour spent studying is an hour not spent working which is also needed for keeping up with my bills.  I'm not against paying for something else that saves time, as long as it really does or has guarantees or whatever.


Can someone give me a bit of handholding and tell me the best way to do this?  I'm in almost a panic after finding the two sample tests harder than I thought.  I STILL have to work and balance hours spent doing that (which pay bills for sure) with what i'm doing to learn/pass the exams.

Do I JUST 'memorize' every flashcard in the 300+ questions (I think the official tests only have 100? so this tries to overteach you anything which might be on there?), like if I learn most of that is there anything NOT in the cards likely to fail me out or should I be able to reliably pass provided I memorize (x) percentage of the instantcert tests?

I looked at 'free study resources' which seem to want to show me alot MORE than i assume is in the questions...  dozens and dozens of multipage material with dozens of other terms I don't recognize, argh!  I want to say "just the facts, ma'am..." just the minimum I need to pass these tests since once they do my stress level drops 1000%.  Whats the minimum I need to learn, whats the fastest way to learn it just for the test, and how can I reasonably assess/know I will pass?  Maybe in the future i'll have some love of learning for the topic but right now i'm trying to get out of a financial trap.

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I took Principles of Management and a couple of others using only InstantCert...my way of getting through is copying each question, paste in document, click check answer...then copy that answer below the question...I do this for each area so that way I can read both question and answer at the same time, fill in the blanks on paper then go through again and highlight each answer...then I do the flashcards after.  I usually devote 2 to 4 days in each area...I know you don't have that much time so you'll have to condense...but as I said, I found that a better way for me to retain the answers.

I passed too...I wish you the best!