Microeconomic CLEP result and a few questions

[snazzlefrag]

See, that's the thing - as much as I like IC, I don't see how, if I used that exclusively, that I would've even received a 48. My textbook, and a bunch of economics web pages, helped me to decipher the information more. I often felt that I over-studied for this exam and that's more of a reason why I'm so disappointed with my score. Maybe I'm beating myself up too much but I really, really don't want to re-take the Macro one as well so I need to figure out what I can do, that I did differently with Micro, that will help me to pass. It's frustrating indeed.

swthing,

Sorry to hear about your exam score today. I know you studied hard for this one.

I am wondering whether studying the text book was overkill. These exams only test on the basic principles. It would be impossible for them to cover every possible thing that every possible textbook or every possible college professor teaches on this subject. Instead, CLEPs break down each subject into the absolute central core of knowledge that EVERY student should know, regardless of which school they attend, or who their professor was, or which textbook they used.

Perhaps you might do better if you focus in on the core principles ONLY (a la Instantcert). If you know the basics inside and out, I really think you would do better than if you know a LITTLE bit about everything...."Less is more" so to speak!

It's much easier to truly "master" 100 core concepts, than to try and grasp 1500 concepts that may, or may not even be on the exam. That's why I think people tend to do well using Instantcert...it narrows the information down to a very manageable central core of knowledge that you will need to know to pass each exam, and it doesn't overwhelm your senses with lots of superfluous information you won't necessarily need.

Just my two cents.

Best of luck on your next exam swthing,
Snazzlefrag