CLEP Calculus

[aviateurind]

Ok people listen up,

I honestly pretty much hate calculus, I recommend all students who aren't too good in Calc to take this Clep Test, as in some colleges it's hard to pass this course. Especially in my university, it was, the freakin teacher was like a cop, I got a D, and I needed a minimum of C-, so someone told me about this clep test which I studied for about maybe 2 months, and just passed it today with a score of 57, If i can pass this thing, anyone can. Yes REA book and its tests,  and the collegeboard study guide are very useful. But I'd recommend you guys to not directly jump on these resources, first brush your calc skills. Professor Leonard, and PatrickGMT are very useful resources, for Prof Leonard, all the Calc 1 videos are in order, and he explains it very well in his videos, they are free on youtube, make use of that. I'm sure you can watch all his videos in under a month if you study everyday, and you'll then be good to move on to the REA and College board study guides.

Also keep in mind, these tests are heavily scaled, I was very nervous when I clicked to check my score, I wouldn't have been surprised if I had not made the 50 cut, because my test didn't go well by any means. like out of the 44 questions, maybe around only 15 ( the first 5 were like a walk in the park), I knew for sure, I had done right, the other 30 odd, on some I had maybe a little idea, but most of them I just fluked out. So out of those 29 questions, I'm estimating I prolly got around 10 right, which were mostly flukes, I prolly scored around 25-26 to manage a score of 57. But that's my estimation, maybe I scored around 28-29, but I kinda doubt that.

All I would tell you ppl is to plz, don't miss out on the easy questions, like calculating basic derivitives, intergrals, slope of implicit functions and inverse derivitives. Those are easy points, it's fine to fluke out on half the test, but you need to be able to know atleast 20 of those 44 questions. Apparently, Rieman sums and trapezoid rules didn't show up at the test at all, and I worked on that for quite a bit, but their were a few optimization/ Related rates problems of which, none of them, I knew, I just took God's name, selected a random answer and hoped for the best.

So yes this test is very very passable for people who aren't to good in Calc, just have to work a little hard to be on the safe side and I'm sure you'll get through. I still don't understand why this course is required for a lot of majors in colleges these days, as they help us in no way, but Clep is kind of slightlier easy way out, so might as well make use of it.

For people who are new or weak in calc- Resources to use :

Professor Leonard youtube videos (highly recommended)
(PatrickGMT) (Patrick is pretty good at explaining as well)
Khan Academy is very good as well, but the videos aren't in order like Leo's

After around a month of working around these videos,
then jump to the study guides (REA AND Collegeboard) ( work in those for 2-3 weeks, or take a month, be on the safe side, I pretty much guarantee you will at least pass)

For people who are good in calc and have a strong base through high school math and algebra, they might as well jump on the study guides and give the test in 2 weeks.

So yes, Good luck people and don't take too much stress, you'll get through it. Be calm and remain positive.

God bless.

Also, if anyone wants the 2017 calc study guide, don't buy it, I can email it to them for free. So lemme know if any of you need it.

Adios

Hi, 

Thanks for your feedback. I am planning to take the calculus clep exam within the next month or so. Could you email me the study guide that you used? I would appreciate it!

Thank you